Bharti Airtel , a telecommunications services provider, has appointed Sharat Sinha as the CEO of Airtel Business, effective June 3, 2024. In his new role at Airtel Business, Sharat will be responsible for overseeing the Airtel Management Board and will report to Gopal Vittal.

Before joining Airtel, Sharat served as the President of Asia-Pacific & Japan at Check Point Software Technologies Limited. He also held various leadership roles at prominent organisations such as VMware, Palo Alto Networks, Tellabs, Cisco, and Ericsson.

Commenting on Sharat’s appointment, Gopal Vittal, CEO and MD of Bharti Airtel said, “I am confident that Sharat’s broad global experience in product management and business leadership across many of the world’s leading technology companies will provide tremendous firepower to Airtel’s ambitions in rapidly growing our portfolio across connectivity and adjacencies”.

Expressing his excitement about his new role, Sharat remarked, “Airtel Business is a leader in the B2B space offering marquee solutions to enterprises and I am delighted to join this passionate team as they continue to steer towards enhancing their leadership with future‐ready technology innovations and solutions that deliver greater value to customers”.