Ashok Ganapathy appointed as Director of Airtel Business

Ashok Ganapathy was on 6 June 2016 appointed as the Director of Bharti Airtel Ltd. He will take over the post with effect from 1 July 2016.
•    Ganapathy succeeds Manish Prakash as Director (Airtel Business). Prakash has been appointed as Director (strategic alliances). 
•    He will report to Gopal Vittal, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director (India & South Asia), Bharti Airtel.
•    In this new role, Ashok will be responsible for driving the growth of Airtel's B2B portfolio that serves top corporations, government entities and other corporate with end-to-end solutions.
•    Ganapathy joined Airtel in 2013 as the Hub CEO for Mumbai, Maharashtra, Goa & Gujarat circles. 
•    Ganapathy has an experience of 26 years in FMCG, entertainment, retail and telecom sectors. 
•    He started his career with Hindustan Unilever in 1990 as a management trainee.
•    He has a B. Tech degree from IIT, Madras and MBA from IIM, Ahmadabad.