{"id":7998,"date":"2019-01-11T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/gsma_people\/gopal-vittal"},"modified":"2025-03-24T09:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:05:31","slug":"gopal-vittal","status":"publish","type":"gsma_theme_people","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/gsma_people\/gopal-vittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gopal Vittal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his role, as Vice Chairman and Managing Director, he is responsible for providing overall leadership for Airtel\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. 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