Teji Abraham is a Director in Cisco Consulting Services, Analytics practice especially focused on enabling clients in Public Sector and Service Provider sectors to extract insights from Big Data. On secondment from Cisco, he previously served as COO of Planetary Skin Institute (a non-profit scientific R&D institute co-founded by NASA and Cisco) and led the development of big data analytics and decision support platforms for enhancing risk management and understanding urban-rural dynamics in collaboration with national governments, NASA, and other research institutions.

Prior to this, Abraham was a management consultant with Diamond Consultants where he collaborated with clients to help build new business models to capitalize on emerging technology trends across US, Europe and Africa. Earlier in his career, he led software R&D teams for Philips and Siemens across India and Europe.

Teji holds an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Kerala University, India.