Background
Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar was born on 23 March 1971 in Jabalpur.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Shyam Mardikar
Edit ProfileEducation
Shyam attended various schools in Madhya Pradesh including Holy Cross Convent in Raipur, Mission Hill School in Gwalior and Street Xavier"s in Sarguja (now Chhattisgarh).
Career
He received his Bachelors in Telecommunications Engineering from Rani Durgavati University in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Shyam loves to travel and read. Shyam started his career in 1994 with C-DOT as a software research engineer and held various operational and management positions in Airtel.
He also served as Deputy General Manager in Department of Telecomunications, India.
While talking about managed services for telecom sector in his first stint at airtel, Shyam was quoted saying, “Telecom sells like fish” but the operators have found that it is more cost beneficial to employ fishermen to catch the fish and for them to focus on marketing lieutenant Shyam moved out of Airtel later in 2010 and joined Lebara group as The Chief Technology Officer.
He was based out of London. Where he was responsible for implementation & execution of the Company"s technology strategy and aligning the Technology Vision with the Business Strategy across its 7 countries.
In his current role at Bharti Airtel, Shyam is The Chief of Strategy, Architecture and Engineering and is responsible for transforming the network architecture to a next generation, mobile broad band enabled, data services centric network.
He is also instrumental in driving the overall strategy on the technology standards across different domains to ensure sustaining Airtel"s leadership position on the technology front and set the benchmark standards for the industry. Along with his existing role at Bharti Airtel, Shyam currently chairs the technology committee of Cellular Operators Association of India
VAS ASIA 2014
LTE INDIA 2014
Territorial Decoration-LTE Summit 2013
4G World India Expo & Conference
Broadband Technical India 2013
VAS Asia 2013
VAS India 2010
23rd Convergence India 2015 Expo
Vision 4G LTE Telecom Conclave
LTE India 2015.
Membership
He was also a member of GSMA"s executive management committee.
