Gopal Vittal

Gopal Vittal is currently the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Bharti Airtel Group and sits on the boards of Bharti Airtel Limited, Airtel Africa PLC and Indus Towers.

In his role, as Vice Chairman and Managing Director, he is responsible for providing overall leadership for Airtel’s operations. Over the last 12 years, under his charge, Airtel has built a winning portfolio of businesses across Mobile, B2B, homes and Digital services achieving a life-time high revenue market share in an intensely competitive market. In addition to strong business performance, Airtel has built a resilient organization, with best in class talent, world class digital capabilities and a strong set of values. Customer obsession and digital capabilities embedded in its talent pool secure its future. The capital markets acknowledge this with a five fold increase in the market capitalization of the company to well over $100 Billion.

In addition, Mr. Vittal was also with Hindustan Unilever for over 20 years. He led several national and global assignments across sales, marketing and general management. In his last four years he was on the board of the company, responsible for leading the Home and Personal Care Business, 80 percent of the company’s portfolio and the architect behind the turn around of the business from 5% to 15%.

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