He has participated on ICT decision-making forums and has influenced the formation of various African forums and organisations responsible for shaping the ICT sector at National, Continental and Global levels through his activities on various bodies including the ITU, ICANN and the African Union.

In his international organisational activities, Andile served on the Board and High-level Panel (serving as the business sector chair) responsible for the outcomes of the Netmundial multi-stakeholder conference on Internet governance, hosted by the Brazilian government in April 2014. He also serves on the council of The National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI). The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University appointed him as an Adjunct Professor of the University, affiliated to the faculty of science.

He is currently the Head on Innovation and R&D at inq., prior to this he was the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Fabric at inq., Naresh worked with a startup where he led an overall portfolio of products that helps in accelerating the digital transformation of the clients for SD-WAN, SDN/NFV, 5G, IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing. In his previous work at Cisco, he made significant contributions and received many awards towards product development in Metro Ethernet, Enterprise Routing, Switching, and Security areas. He designed Multi-Dimensional Performance and Scale methodologies, and large-scale topologies, validated designs, and won many deals by engaging with customers.

Naresh is very passionate about open source and the power it has to enable enterprises and service providers. He represented ONF in many international forums, co-authored SDN Migration & OpenFlow test specifications, and was invited as SME for developing MEF SDN/NFV professional certification and ONF OCSA certification. Naresh holds a Master's degree in Communications from IIT Bombay and Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communications.