Corporate Governance

Mr. Gopal Vittal is currently the Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Airtel Limited. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director & CEO for the brand for twelve years during which period, Airtel built a winning portfolio of businesses across mobile, B2B, Home Broadband, DTH and digital services.

Under his leadership, Airtel has achieved a lifetime high in terms of both revenue market share and enterprise value in a very competitive market.

Over the past several years Gopal has been driving the brand’s digital transformation journey including defining the culture, metrics, incentives for collaboration and overall “re- imagining the business”.

Prior to Airtel, Gopal was with Unilever for close to two decades working across sales, marketing and general management in markets spanning India, Thailand, Indonesia and China. In his last assignment at Unilever, he led the Home and Personal care business and strengthened the entire portfolio by growing market share and profitability across categories

Mr. Vittal is an alumnus of Madras Christian College and has completed his MBA from IIM, Kolkata.

Mr. Ray is an accomplished and seasoned leader with more than 2 decades of experience in Financial Planning, Managerial accounting, Factory commercial, and corporate sectors. He has experience of devising medium and long-term strategic plans along with key drivers of growth and expansion.

Prior to joining Bharti group, he was associated with Bajaj Auto Limited where he led finance, treasury and taxation. He also played a key role in development of roadmap of electric vehicle. He has held senior leadership positions in finance, strategy, analytics, M&A and data science in several large companies like Viacom18, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, and Eveready Industries India.

Pankaj Tewari is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a law-graduate with over 21 years of professional experience spread across Industry and Consulting. He is the Group Company Secretary of Bharti group since June 2017 reporting to the group Chairman. He is responsible for ensuring high standards of Corporate Governance across the group. He has anchored / supported marquee corporate transactions including some of the largest fund-raising initiatives, mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructuring and overseas listing of Airtel Africa plc. He has engaged with regulatory bodies at senior levels both in India & overseas and represented the Company at various fora.

Pankaj is a part of Bharti Management Board and serves as a Non-Executive Director on the board of various Bharti Group companies including Bharti Enterprises Limited, Airtel Digital Limited and Indus Towers Limited amongst others.

Before joining Bharti Group, he had a long stint of 12 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC).He has worked extensively in Corporate and allied laws, Corporate Governance and Compliance space and has the experience of working with Senior Boards on governance, board- effectiveness and evaluation.He led the thought leadership initiative on the new company law and conducted workshops for boards of several large listed and multinational companies.Prior to PwC, Pankaj has worked in the industry in the corporate secretarial and legal domain.

Pankaj has been a member of committees on corporate laws and regulatory affairs in CII, FICCI & PHD Chamber of Commerce.He has been a CII nominee on Secretarial Standards Board.He has been extensively involved in various initiatives on public advocacy, policy matters and thought leadership.He has spoken / written regularly on contemporary issues in corporate laws / governance and regulatory space.

Rohit Krishan Puri is an associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ACS: 19779), a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a law graduate with over 20 years of experience in corporate sector. Before joining Bharti Group in 2010, he worked with Hero MotoCorp. He has been a part of Corporate Secretarial function for more than a decade and has also been involved in several corporate transactions including fund raising initiatives and corporate restructurings etc.