Amrita Gangotra
Director for Information Technology at Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Amrita Gangotra is the Director for Information Technology at Bharti Airtel Ltd. and is a member of the airtel management board.
She has experience in Information Technology across FMCG, telecom and IT industries. She joined bharti as the Vice President of Solution Engagement for Mobile Business in 2002. Through the years, Amrita has taken on additional and varied IT roles & responsibilities. Prior to her current assignment, Amrita was the CIO mobile services, the largest business unit of airtel. Additionally she headed airtel’s IT operations, governance across all lines of businesses (ie. Mobile, Telemedia and Enterprise Business) and B2C application innovation groups. She was part of the core team that developed the strategic IT outsourcing deals with IBM, Nortel etc.
She has been awarded multiple prestigious awards for the work done by her like Gold CIO award by the CIOL (Cyber India Online, Leading IT portal) and Dataquest (Leading IT magazine) and the runner up for the best CIO by CSI-KPIT Cummins, the best CIO award by Network Computing magazine. She has been on global advisory boards like IBM, Intense Technologies, Intel, AIMA etc. As the President of The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), India Chapter, she launched the business intelligence forum in India. She featured in the “Stree Super Achiever - 2008” CNBC Awaaz programme.
Prior to joining bharti, Amrita was the CIO and General Manager-IT Service Management for HCL Comnet Ltd. She was providing consultation to large enterprises based in US, UK and South East Asia for effective management of technology infrastructure (networks (WAN and LAN), systems, databases, storage and IT security) and industry best practices like ITIL and ISO-9002.
She has experience in process optimization and re-engineering through automation across business areas. Amrita spent nine years with Nestle India Ltd and was involved in implementation of a comprehensive ERP application across business groups in India that was a standard across Nestle Asia Pacific zone. She lead the company wide Y2K project and international projects for the development and implementation of applications across core business processes that were deployed across multiple countries.
After completing post graduation in Operations Research with top marks from Delhi University in 1988, Amrita joined Allen Bradley as a research officer for developing/automating heuristic and statistical models on market surveys. She has completed executive management programs from CCL and INSEAD.
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