Vinod was appointed as a non-executive director on the Board of Tata Communications Limited in February 2007. In February 2011, he was appointed as the Managing Director of Tata Communications Limited and Tata Communications Limited Group CEO.

With over 20 years of experience in the global telecom industry, Vinod has an impressive track record in developing business strategies and creating fast growth organisations across the world.

Prior to Tata Communications, he was Senior Vice President of Asia Netcom, responsible for generating top-line growth including strategy formulation, product marketing and sales. He was actively involved in the financial restructuring and eventual asset sale of Asia Global Crossing to China Netcom, resulting in the formation of Asia Netcom.

In 1999, Vinod joined WorldCom Japan as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this, he held various senior positions in Global One in the United States and Asia where he has had major responsibilities in market management, sales, marketing, product management, multinational account management and operations.

Vinod is a member on the Board of the Economic Development Board (EDB), the lead government agency responsible for planning and executing strategies to enhance Singapore’s position as a global business centre and for growing the Singapore economy. Vinod is also a member on the Governing Council of Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI) in Singapore, a premier institution for raising human capital management capabilities in Asia.

Vinod was born in 1965 and graduated with honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India. He lives with his wife in Singapore and is a keen polo player and art collector.

He has considerable experience in developing strategies and business plans, in both the Indian and global telecom sector. His previous experience includes a business consulting stint with the Tata Strategic Management Group (TSMG), focusing on the telecom and media industries. Subsequently, Srinivasa joined the Tata Group Chairman's Office with the responsibility for coordinating the various telecom activities within the Tata Companies.

Srinivasa graduated with distinction in Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surat. He also holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Asia's number one business school.

Srinivasa lives in Mumbai with his wife and two daughters.

He played a leading role when Teleglobe moved to a competitive environment in Canada and was a key member of the executive team during the 2002 restructuring process as well as during the integration process with Tata Communications.

Michel is Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Telecommunications Executive Management Institute of Canada, and has served as the Canadian Representative and Council Member for Canada at the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from L’École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Université de Montréal, and is a member of the Certified General Accounting Association of Canada.

In one of his earlier roles at Tata Communications as the Head of the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance vertical, Sumeet was instrumental in building a portfolio of specialised industry solutions for the banking Industry. This business is now an independent subsidiary named Tata Communications Banking InfraSolutions Limited and provides technology solutions like Managed ATM's, Managed POS and Hosted Core Banking to the banking industry.

Allan was Vice President of Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions for Teleglobe at the time of its takeover by Tata Communications in 2006. In this role, he was responsible for the company's major business initiatives, including taking a leading role in the sale of Teleglobe to Tata Communications, and subsequently leading the integration. Allan joined Teleglobe in 2000 as Vice President of Global Traffic Operations, responsible for all voice routing, buying and bilateral agreements.

Allan began his telecommunications career at Bell Canada where he held various roles in corporate development, finance and major alliance management. He moved to Teleglobe following the Bell Canada acquisition. Allan also spent a number of years in various senior positions – specialising in international corporate development, strategy and engineering – at Ontario Hydro and Dofasco.

Allan earned his MBA from McMaster University and his undergraduate degree in Engineering from The University of Toronto. He is also a registered Professional Engineer.

Before joining Tata Communications, Rangu was President and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Niksun, a New York area based cyber security technology company. Prior to this, he was a senior executive at Cisco Systems, first as President of the India and Asia region and then as General Manager, Emerging Markets Group. Rangu architected and executed a bold strategy that transformed Cisco's business in India and other emerging markets, with a significant market share gain and accelerated revenue growth. He conceived and led a comprehensive $1.1 billion investment to globalise Cisco’s operations and capture new market opportunities.

Prior to Cisco Rangu was the CEO of Edgix, an Internet company in New York, with operations across US, Europe and Latin America. Earlier Rangu was a senior executive at Verizon Communications in New York; over a 10 year tenure he led organisations in technology, marketing and new ventures. He led Verizon's foray into data and internet markets and as the President of the unit, built the business from the ground up to become a global leader. Before joining Verizon, he was a Management Consultant at PwC. Rangu holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also has MS and BE degrees in engineering.

Mr. Freeman has over 15 years of international, cross board, telecommunications experience representing large multinational companies in legal and compliance matters.

Prior to joining Tata Communications in April 2004, he served as General Counsel and Assistant General Counsel to several multinational telecommunications / managed services companies headquartered in Asia, the US and Europe.

Mr. Freeman obtained both his undergraduate degrees (Economics / Political Science) as well as his Juris Doctorate from the University of Minnesota, where he graduated magna cum laude.

John has over 18 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and began his career at Bell Communications Research as a Senior Engineer in 1990.

John then took his expertise to Telcordia Technologies, where he spent the next 10 years in various senior management positions. One of these was as Group Senior Vice President, Network Systems where he led a large scale software development team focused on development of high volume, real time transaction processing systems and operations support systems for telecommunications service providers. In his last role at Telcordia Technologies, John held the position of Group Senior Vice President, Wireless Product Management where he was charged with developing and growing a new business unit focused on operations software for new service introduction and service assurance solutions targeted at wireless service providers.

John earned his Masters of Science degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University and his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from The Pennsylvania State University.

His professional career spans over 25 years in the telecommunications and IT field, at BPL, AT&T, Lucent and Tata Communications in various leadership roles spanning engineering, network operations and customer service. He has led the rollout and operations of GSM, CDMA, NGN & MPLS networks across the globe during his career at Tata Communications and other companies where he has worked. Madhusudhan has also been instrumental in building organisational capabilities to support new and complex solutions surrounding Telepresence, voice & video services for enterprises, media and entertainment solutions, data centre services and cloud services.

Madhusudhan holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Vishweshwarayya College of Engineering (UVCE) Bangalore, India.

Prior to Tata Communications, Mr. Baweja served in Emaar MGF Land Limited as Executive President for Corporate Affairs and Chief Risk Officer. He has also worked in several roles across Bharti Airtel, Xerox Modicorp, Digital Equipment and Ballarpur Industries.

A graduate in Commerce, a chartered accountant and a cost & works accountant, Mr. Baweja has more than 25 years of experience in the industry.

Mr. Goyal joined Tata Communications' in February 2010 from PeopleStrong HR Services where he was the Chairman and CEO.

Prior to PeopleStrong HR Services, Mr. Goyal was part of the start-up team of Aricent/Hughes Software Systems where he spent 16 years in a variety of roles including Global Head of HR, CEO of its BPO Business, Head of the Gurgaon Centre and provided direction to IT and Corporate Communication functions. He was also a Director on the Board of this listed company.

Mr. Goyal has a passion for community service and has been an active volunteer with The Art of Living since 2000.

Mr. Goyal has a Masters in Management Studies from BITS-Pilani.

Sunil steps into his role with a set of the required skills that Neotel can leverage, having played an instrumental role in cross-leveraging Tata Communications' resources across the world's fastest growing markets as well as driving the group's Global Enterprise Solutions practice and earlier, its emerging markets strategy across Asia, Middle East, North Africa and India for both Carrier as well as Enterprise segments.

He holds an MBA and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications together with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Medical).