Sandip Das

Sandip Das, is one of Asia’s most respected telecommunications professionals and an acclaimed Chief Executive.

He was formerly the MD & CEO of Reliance Jio Infocom Limited, Group CEO of Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia and CEO of Hutchison Essar Telecom (now Vodafone), India. He also sat on the boards of all these companies as Executive Director. He was one of the founding members of private telephony in India and was part of the group of individuals that founded Hutchison Max Telecom in 1994. He also led one of the world’s largest telecom IPOs, raising $3.5 billion for Maxis in 2009.

He was listed among the top 100 Most Powerful Global Telecom people for four years by Global Telecom magazine. He has also been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Indian Telecom by Voice & Data magazine, Cyber Media Publications. He was voted Best Malaysian CEO by Finance Asia.

Currently, Sandip Das is an independent Board Director & Advisor with Sterlite Technologies Limited and Exhibitions India, Board Advisor of reputation management firm Astrum, besides consulting for International banks and Investment firms.

Sandip Das is an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies(FMS), University of Delhi, holds a BE (Mechanical Engineering) degree from NIT, Rourkela and is an Advanced Management Programme (AMP 188) graduate from Harvard Business School, Boston.