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.

Laurie also spent over 20 years at IBM in a number of senior leadership positions focusing on the telecommunications and financial services industries. Her most recent role at IBM was that of Managing Director, responsible for three of IBM's largest customers in Europe: Lloyds TSB Group, VOCA (an electronic payments and transactions firm) and APACS (the UK Payments Association). Other roles within IBM included EMEA Vice President of IBM's e-business on-demand practice and Principle of IBM's Consulting group.

Laurie has an MBA and BSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

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 over 500 software developers, system engineers and product support specialists, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery of over 40 software releases across 10 product lines, per year.

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 wireless service providers. He held the responsibility for P&L management for this $100 million business and achieved over 30 per cent year-on-year revenue growth, over 15 per cent gross margin improvement and over 60 per cent improvement in profitability.

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.

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).

Ajay Pandey has had over 27 years of work experience, with over 15 years in the Telecommunications Industry, and has held many positions in the Tata groups’ telecommunications business in various positions of responsibilities at General Manager level, mainly as Profit Center Head. He started off his career with an engineering company, but virtually shaped his profile whilst working with the Indian arm of the multinational Xerox Corporation of USA for about 8 years.

He has been involved in five important start-up projects that includes Tata groups foray into GSM, CDMA based mobility business (Tata Docomo) including the current one in South Africa. Ajay led the US 1 Bn $ project as President incharge which took Tata Indicom (now known as Tata Docomo) nationally in all the provinces. He founded the Enterprise business Unit and also was the CEO of Tata Internet Services limited.

Current Assignment: Ajay Pandey moved into his current role in July’2011, to be associated with the board’s of Neotel, Tata Communications Lanka Limited, Tata Communications Transformation services, Tata Communications Banking Infra-solutions limited and to assist the Nepal Joint venture United Telecom Limited. Apart from this he also project manages the alignment exercise that is currently underway between TCL and Tata Teleservices Limited (Tata Docomo/Tata Photon). In this role he is also responsible for Government and Regulatory relations for the Indian operations. In line with the TCL’s philosophy of expanding its base of home markets (After India and South Africa), he is also overseeing groups efforts to identify newer home markets as well.

Ajay Pandey is the member of the Global Management Committee (GMC) of Tata Communications Limited and is based out of Mumbai.