Sunil Bharti Mittal is the Founder, Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises and the Chairman of BhartiAirtel. Bharti Enterprises is one of India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, retail, realty, financial services and agri-products. BhartiAirtel is the flagship company of Bharti Enterprises, which is among the leading global telecom company with operations in India, South-Asia and Africa. Bharti has joint ventures with several global leaders: Singtel, Softbank, Wal-Mart, AXA and Del Monte. Read more...

Rakesh Bharti Mittal is the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, agri business, financial services, retail, cash and carry, realty, telecom software and communication & media devices.

Rakesh is the Chairman of Bharti Infratel, Bharti AXA Life Insurance, Bharti AXA General Insurance, FieldFresh Foods and Beetel Teletech. He is also on the Boards of Bharti Ventures, Bharti Enterprises and other group companies.

Rakesh is a member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) since 1999. He is the Chairman of CII National Council on Agriculture since 2009. He has served as the Chairman of several National Committees of CII and was the Chairman of its Northern Regional Council during 2004-05. Rakesh is currently a member of the Governing Body of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), member of Punjab Investment Advisory Council (PIAC), and Assam Investment Advisory Board (AIAB). He is also a member of the National Food Processing Development Council (NFPDC), MoFPI, Government of India. In the past Rakesh has served as a member of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), Screening-cum-Implementation group on the recommendations of Technical Advisory TACSA, Committee for Encouraging Investments in Supply Chain, and Working Group on Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure, under the Planning Commission.

He is a member of Screening-cum-Implementation [SIG] TACSA Group, Committee for Encouraging Investments in Supply Chain and Working Group on Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure, under the Planning Commission.

A passionate advocate of the right to good education, Rakesh serves on Boards of several educational institutions. He is a member of the Executive Board of Indian School of Business (ISB) and the Campus Advisory Board [CAB] of ISB, Mohali. He is the Co-Chairman of the Advisory board of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology & Management and Chairman of Governing Council of Sat Paul Mittal School. He was on the Advisory Council of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi, and a member of the Board of Governors of Thapar University, Punjab. Rakesh was also a member of the International Advisory Council of Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, USA.

Rakesh is a Life Trustee and the Co- Chairman of Bharti Foundation which was set up with the vision "To help the underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential". Bharti Foundation's flagship Satya Bharti School Program reaches out to underprivileged children in villages providing them free quality education along with school uniforms, books, stationery and nutritious mid-day meals.

Rajan Bharti Mittal is the Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises – one of India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, financial services, retail, manufacturing, realty and agri-business. Bharti Airtel, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is among the leading global telecom service providers with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa with an aggregate of over 246 million customers at the end of February 2012. Bharti has joint ventures with several global leaders including Wal-Mart for wholesale operations, AXA for financial services and Del Monte for agri and food processing business. Rajan is also the Chairman of the Bharti – WalMart joint venture in India.

Born in 1960, Rajan joined Bharti Enterprises after graduating from Punjab University. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, he is actively involved in overseeing the activities of the group at the corporate level. With his rich experience in the marketing function, he is also involved in many of the new business ventures of the Group.

Rajan has been honored with the "Indian Business Leader of the Year Award 2011" by Horasis, The Global Visions Community and has also been awarded the “Leonardo International Prize 2012" by Comitato Leonardo, the Italian Quality Committee.

He is currently serving in a number of leadership roles in different industry bodies. He is on the Board of Trustees of Brookings Institution, the world’s oldest and most prestigious think tank. He is the Vice President of ICC (International Chambers of Commerce) in India. In the past he has been the President of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) for the year 2010 - 2011 and is currently a Member of its Executive & Steering Committees. He is also a Member of the Council of Management at AIMA (All India Management Association). He has held several key positions in various industry associations in the past as well. In FICCI he was Chairman of Retail Committee in 2007, Infrastructure Committee in 2006, Telecom & IT Committee in 2004 & 2005, and Telecom Committee in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He was the President of Association of Basic Telecom Operators (now known as Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India - AUSPI) for 1999-2000.

Akhil Gupta is the Deputy Group CEO & Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises and Managing Director & Vice Chairman of Bharti Infratel. He has been closely associated with a range of strategic, financial, mergers and acquisitions and business performance issues of the group.

Akhil has played a pivotal role in Bharti’s phenomenal growth having been closely involved from the very beginning in the group’s the telecommunication services business. He has led the formation of various partnerships for Bharti with leading international companies and investors.

Akhil has spearheaded the transformational initiatives that include the outsourcing deals undertaken by the group in the areas of information technology (IT) with IBM, network management with Ericsson and Nokia and outsourcing of Call Centres management to leading international BPOs using common Nortel platform across India. He has also been responsible for conceptualizing and implementing the separation of tower mobile infrastructure of Bharti Airtel and forming Indus Towers a Joint Venture with Vodafone and Aditya Birla Telecom, which has become the largest tower company in the world.

Akhil is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and has over 28 years of professional experience in industry. He has also attended the “Advanced Management Program” at the Harvard Business School in the year 2002.

In 2009 Akhil was conferred the “CA Business Achiever Award” by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

During the year 2006, he won three awards at the first ‘CNBC TV18 CFO Awards for India’ hosted by Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone in UAE. The awards panel voted him as ‘Best CFO of the Year’ and ‘Best Performing CFO in the Telecommunications Sector’. In addition, Mr. Gupta won the ‘Best CFO of the Year - People's Choice Award’

Inder Walia joined Bharti Enterprises Ltd in August 2007 as Group Director-Human Resources and Integration of Bharti Group. He is also a member of the Bharti Management Board.


Prior to joining Bharti Enterprises, Inder was the Executive Vice President- Human Resources and a member of the Group Management Committee of ArcelorMittal for over 8 years, where he was responsible for Group-wide HR and post-merger Integration. During this time, he was based both in London and Luxemburg. Inder played a significant role in due diligence, transition management and successful post merger integration of several acquisitions done in North America, South America, Africa, Western & Eastern Europe and Central and South Asia. His biggest challenge and achievement in large scale integration came with the high profile Arcelor and Mittal Steel merger in 2006. Inder has effectively implemented business strategies with special emphasis on Business HR practices across diverse cultures globally.

Prior to working with ArcelorMittal, Inder was Director-HR at Modi Xerox Ltd and Corporate Manager-HR with HCL Hewlett Packard Ltd.

Inder is an Economics and Accounting graduate with Post Graduate Degree in HR from TISS, Mumbai and has attended Advanced Management Programs at US Business Schools.

Narender Gupta leads the Corporate Affairs for Bharti Group looks at the regulatory, policy and strategic issues for the Group including international operations.

Narender joined Bharti in 1999 in the Delhi circle where he was heading Regulatory, Legal, Secretarial and functions relating to Government Relationships. In 2000, he was moved to Corporate Office, where he has since held the responsibility for all Bharti Group Regulatory and Secretarial functions till March-2006. He was also in charge of External Relations Management during this period.

Prior to Bharti, Narender worked for 20 years in prominent corporates such as Shriram Group of companies and DLF Group where his main role was that of Company Secretary.

He is a Fellow Member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India and holds a Post Graduation Diploma in Business Manaegement, besides being a Law Graduate.

Vijaya Sampath is Advisor to the Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises. She is also the Ombudsperson for Bharti group.

Vijaya is counted amongst the top General Counsels in India. In her previous role as the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at Bharti Enterprises, she played a key role in complex legal matters related to key group strategic initiatives including M&A.

She has been in the legal profession for over twenty-five years and has worked both as Partner in a law firm as well as in house Legal Counsel and Company Secretary for large Indian groups and for Indian Aluminium Company Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of a Fortune 100 company on whose Board she served as Executive Director.

She holds degrees in Literature and Law and is also a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. She has attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and the Strategic Alliances Program at Wharton, USA.

Dr. Jai Menon leads global innovation, driving the strategic product roadmap and partner ecosystem for Airtel across all its operations in nineteen countries in Asia and Africa. He is also the Group CIO across all businesses of Bharti Enterprises including telecom, towers, agriculture, retail, manufacturing/distribution and education.

Jai joined Bharti in 2002 as Corporate Director, launched Airtel’s Enterprise Business as its Joint President, and led IT / Customer Service as its Director. Previously, he was Corporate Officer and Executive VP at AT&T (formerly BellSouth), USA managing growth businesses and strategic alliances – and prior to that was the eCTO. Jai started his career at IBM’s Watson Labs, USA and rose to become an IBM executive Director in Software Group leading worldwide research-to-market business for rich media.

He has received several global recognitions (Global CIO50, Forbes etc.), has filed over thirty US patents and serves on various boards and advisory committees. Jai received his PhD/MS from Cornell University, BTech (first rank) from IIT-Delhi, and has completed executive management programs at Harvard, Wharton and Sloan schools.

Mukesh Bhavnani is the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Bharti Enterprises. He is responsible for facilitating all strategic and high impact legal policy and structuring across Bharti businesses, litigation related to key matters, M&A and overseeing the group Secretarial function.

Mukesh has over 30 years of varied experience across multiple industries including insurance, infrastructure, media, and consumer goods. In his last assignment as the Group President – Legal at Essar Group, Mukesh played a key role in several key matters including the listing of the Group’s Energy business on London Stock Exchange. He also successfully led Essar Group’s legal team in various international acquisitions in Canada, Africa, US. Prior to this, Mukesh was the General Legal Counsel with Sony Entertainment. He also headed the legal and compliance function at Max New York Life Insurance. His other assignments include Coca-Cola India, Jumbo group in Dubai, Godrej Soaps.

Mukesh is a graduate in Law and Commerce from Bombay University and a qualified Company Secretary.

Sarvjit has over twenty four years of general and financial management experience in multinational and national corporations of which over fourteen years have been with Bharti.

He is in his 22nd year in the telecommunications sector, having lived and worked in London, Singapore, Sydney and Delhi. He worked for Pitney Bowes Corp. (USA) and British Telecom Plc (UK) prior to joining Bharti and has performed corporate, operational, project and financial roles in his career, spanning the telecom space, in value added services, internet,data networks, mobile, broadband, wireless and media services.

Sarvjit is a second generation Indian from the UK. He is a BA honours graduate in accounting and finance (Middlesex University, UK) and a qualified chartered management accountant (Chartered Institute of Management Accounts, UK). Sarvjit holds an MBA (University of Birmingham, UK) specialising in human resource management and advanced marketing, and is a lifetime member of the Stanford University alumni having completed the SEP (Stanford Executive Program, USA) in 2004 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Prior to his current role, Sarvjit was the Chief Financial Officer & Director of Strategy for Bharti Airtel. During the year 2009, he was awarded the 'CNBC TV18 CFO Award' for the 'Best Performing CFO in Telecommunication Sector'.