Telecom service provider Airtel has appointed Manish Prakash as enterprise and government biz head. He earlier worked with Accenture, SK Telecom, Tech Mahindra, IBM and HP.
As the director for Enterprise & Government business, Manish will report to Airtel India CEO Gopal Vittal.
His appointment is happening at a time when a number of senior professionals are exiting the telecom service provider. Some of these exits are due to senior professionals’ inability to work with Gopal Vittal.
Manish will be responsible for strategy and leadership for the company’s Business-to-business (B2B) in India. His focus will be to consolidate Airtel’s Enterprise and Government business, devise and execute growth strategies, lead product innovation and inject process and service capabilities within the organization.
He joins Airtel from Accenture where he was the managing director – Infrastructure Managed Services (IMS) for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ).
Prior to Accenture, Manish was associated with SK C&C, the affiliate company of SK Telecom in Korea as the CEO of the international business division and served on the board of the affiliate organizations across China, India, Central Asia and US.
He has also held leadership roles at Tech Mahindra, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
