Sanjay Kapoor MBA 1997 has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer for India and South Asia at Bharti Airtel Ltd, South Asia’s biggest mobile-phone operator.
Sanjay joined the Bharti group in 1998 and has since held a number of senior management positions across the Mobility arena. He started off in Delhi and was soon made responsible for consolidation of the company’s leadership position. He then moved on to become the principal architect of the company’s operations in western India, one of the largest telecom projects in the history of telecommunications in the country.
After successfully rolling out and launching the new operations, Sanjay was asked to take on the role of Group Director – Corporate Strategy and Planning, covering all telecom activities of Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. He created a strategic blueprint for the telecom group and managed its early deployment before accepting the position of President & CEO of TeleTech Services (India) Ltd. in 2003. In his tenure with TeleTech India, Sanjay established the company as a recognized player in the country’s burgeoning ITES-BPO landscape.
Early in March 2006 Sanjay was made responsible for managing the growth of the largest mobile services company in India, in the capacity of President of Bharti Airtel’s Mobile Services. During this stint as President-Mobile Services, the mobility business scaled newer heights on all key parameters over a period of 37 months in the world’s most competitive mobile market.
In mid-March 09, Sanjay was elevated from President – Mobile Services to a newly created position of Deputy CEO and was asked to lead all the consumer oriented businesses.
Prior to joining the Bharti Group, Sanjay worked with Xerox India as Director - Operations Support. He spent 14 years with the global document management company, handling a range of key portfolios, ranging from Sales & Marketing to General Management functions.
Sanjay commenced his professional career in 1983 as an executive trainee with Jay Engineering Works Ltd., India’s largest manufacturers of fans and sewing machines.
During the past 11 years, he has played an active role in various industry forums, including COAI, CII, NASSCOM and GSMA.
