Srikanth Balachandran

Srikanth Balachandran
Born Tamil Nadu, India
Citizenship India
Alma mater Madras University
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Occupation Global CHRO of Bharti Airtel

Srikanth Balachandran is an Indian business executive. He is the current Global CHRO of Bharti Airtel, an Indian multinational telecommunications services company with operations in 18 countries. With more than 335 million mobile customers, Airtel is the world's third in customer base. Airtel is the leading telecom company in India.[1][2]

Education

Srikanth has an undergraduate degree in commerce from Madras University. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant securing All India second rank in the process.[3]

Career

Srikanth joined Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), a FMCG company in 1985. He worked in Unilever for 23 years taking positions including vice president, finance & commercial and head, global finance transformation at Unilever's head office in London.

In 2008, he joined Bharti Airtel as the CFO. In 2011, he took over the role of global CFO overseeing the financials of Airtel's operations in more than 18 countries across the globe. In August 2015, he became the Global Chief Human Resources Officer of Airtel.

Across the 18 countries of its operations, Airtel has almost 23,000 employees. In July 2015, Airtel was awarded the Business World HR Excellence Award for the "Best Employee Engagement" in India. In February 2016, Airtel was ranked No.1 in telecom sector and no.8 across all sectors in the "Best Companies to work for in India" survey conducted by Business Today.

In September 2016, Airtel was adjudged a Winner of the Golden Peacock Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance, by the Institute of Directors.[4]

Awards and Publications

In June 2014, Srikanth was recognized as the Best Telecom CFO by CNBC-TV18. Srikanth was listed as a Power Profile in India by LinkedIn in 2015 and 2016, being amongst the most viewed professionals.

Publications :

1. Airtel is turning employees into true brand ambassadors. https://www.peoplematters.in/article/employee-engagement/airtel-turning-employees-true-talent-brand-ambassadors-12746.

2. Board's eye view of Total Rewards https://www.peoplematters.in/article/benefits-and-rewards/bharti-airtel-boards-eye-view-total-rewards-13208.

3.Why the future will be different for the Telecom sector. http://www.hrkatha.com/news/554-why-the-future-will-be-different-for-telecom-sector.

4. One year in a new avatar of corporate life. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-year-new-avatar-corporate-life-srikanth-balachandran

5. Before you take a seat at the table. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/before-you-take-seat-table-srikanth-balachandran

6. How to sustain leadership in a fiercely competitive market ? We say.... Lead Right. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-sustain-leadership-fiercely-competitive-market-we-balachandran

References

  1. ↑ "Mobile Internet yet to take off in India". Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Bharti ahead of restructuring". Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Srikanth Balachandra, Bharti Airtel Ltd". Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Srikanth Balanchandran Profile, NASSCOM" (PDF). NASSCOM. Sep 5, 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
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