- Mr. K. R. Naik is an Indian IT networking industry veteran with close to 5 decades of experience
- He is widely regarded as the father of India’s IT Networking Manufacturing Industry
- He is accredited for giving India its first IT Networking company Smartlink Network Systems Ltd., which has a local manufacturing success story for over three decades
- He has been instrumental in introducing global IT brands like CISCO, D-Link, Foundry, Lanner, Mercury Link, Gigabyte in India having manufacturing as well as R&D operation
- He is the first one to introduce Channel Market Ecosystem for IT Networking in India
- DIGISOL is the brainchild of Mr. K. R. Naik
