Shyam Mardikar

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Shyam Mardikar
Born (1971-03-23) 23 March 1971 (age 52)
Jabalpur
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Jabalpur Engineering College, Class of 1992
OccupationChief Technology Office - Mobile Networks at Reliance Jio (India)
SpouseJaishree Mardikar
Children2
Shyam Mardikar with the CTO Of the Year -2023 Award Shyam Mardikar with the CTO Of the Year -2023 Award.jpg
Shyam Mardikar with the CTO Of the Year -2023 Award

Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar (born 23 March 1971) is The Group Chief Technology Officer - Mobility at Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (India), an Indian multinational telecommunications services company, headquartered in [ Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra], India, it operates a national LTE network with coverage across all 22 telecom circles. Jio does not offer 2G or 3G service, and instead uses voice over LTE to provide voice service on its network.

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Personal background

Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar was born on 23 March 1971 in Jabalpur. Shyam attended various schools in Madhya Pradesh including Holy Cross Convent in Raipur, Miss Hill School in Gwalior and St Xavier's in Surguja (now Chhattisgarh). He received his Bachelors in Telecommunications Engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.[ citation needed ]

Career

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 Telecommunications, India. He was also a member of GSMA's executive management committee. 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 it. [1]

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. [2]

Shyam has held many key roles in Airtel, his latest one being The Chief Technology Officer of Mobile Networks. Shyam, earlier, held the role of the Chief - Strategy, Architecture and Engineering at Airtel. In this role, Shyam was instrumental for transforming the network architecture to a next generation, mobile broad band enabled, data services centric network. He was 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 role at Bharti Airtel, Shyam also chaired the technology committee of Cellular Operators Association of India


Growth Trajectory

Publications and Strategic Outlook

Awards and Recognitions

Telecom Summit Presence

Related Research Articles

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reliance Communications</span> Indian telecommunications company

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Next Generation Mobile Networks</span>

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