The Tata Group has shuffled its top management. Anil Sardana, currently managing director of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) will take over as managing director of Tata Power. Sardana?s position will be taken over by N. Srinath, who is currently the MD and CEO of Tata Communications. Vinod Kumar who is a director on the board of Tata Communications and manages the global data business unit, will replace N. Srinath, with effect from February 1, 2011.
Srinath will continue to be a non-executive director on the board of Tata Communications Limited and some of its subsidiary/associate companies such as Neotel.
With the rejig, Sardana will move back to the power sector where he has worked for over thirty years. Sardana, who had been serving as TTSL?s managing director for over three years and in Tata Teleservices Maharashtra (TTML) for the last six months, is best remembered for triggering a tariff war in the telecom sector with the launch of Tata DOCOMO?s Re 0.01 per second tariff.
Sardana, 53, holds an electrical engineering degree and started his career with National Thermal Power Corporation. He was with Tata Power and headed its distribution business as the CEO before he joined TTSL.
Srinath joined Tata Communications Limited (then known as VSNL) in 2002 as director (operations) when the Tata Group was selected as the strategic partner at the company. He was appointed as the managing director & CEO in February 2007. Under his leadership, Tata Communications has transformed from a monopoly, public sector undertaking into a global communications services provider offering advanced network, managed and cloud services to customers worldwide.
Kumar joined Tata Communications in April 2004, just when the company was embarking on its international growth. He was closely associated with the acquisitions of TGN and Teleglobe and assumed responsibility as managing director of the company?s international operations. Subsequently, he was promoted as the chief operating officer, and currently manages the global data business unit as well as the engineering and operations functions. Kumar has been at the forefront of Tata Communications shift away from traditional network services towards managed services and recently, cloud computing. A graduate from BITS, Pilani, Vinod Kumar has over 20 years of experience in the global telecom industry.
