Vishok Persaud

Guyanese telecommunications executive and racing driver

Vishok Persaud is a Guyanese entrepreneur and racing driver. He is the founder and chief executive of ENet (formerly E-Networks), a telecom operator in Guyana.2

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About

Under his tenure the company launched a 4G/5G VoLTE network in 2022-2023 and expanded national fibre connectivity. As a participant in national circuit racing, he set lap records at the South Dakota Circuit and the 2024 Group 4 (2WD) title.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedQueen's College, Guyana3 4

Persaud is the son of Reepu Daman Persaud, a long-serving politician and Hindu priest, and the brother of physician and minister Vindhya Persaud.

He attended Queen’s College in Georgetown. In 2023, he and his siblings funded a media room for the school’s student journalism program.

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Career

Occupation: racing driver, business executive, chief executive officer, entrepreneur.9 10

  • Since 2022Chief executive, ENet6
  • Since 2022Chief executive officer7 8
  • Date not recordedFounded ENet5

Persaud founded E-Networks (rebranded as ENet) in 2003 and serves as the company’s CEO. The firm expanded fixed broadband and pay-TV services and developed international connectivity via submarine fibre links from Georgetown to Barbados, with domestic extensions along the Essequibo Coast and to Bartica. Following the liberalization of Guyana’s telecoms market in October 2020, ENet obtained a public telecommunications licence and launched a 4G/5G VoLTE mobile network in 2022-2023.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipGuyana11 12