Srikanth Balachandran

Srikanth joined OneWeb in February 2021. He was previously CFO at Bharti Global where he was CFO for three years and prior to that, was CFO of Bharti Airtel for seven years. Under his financial stewardship, Airtel engaged in some intense M&A, grew its customer base five-fold to become the world’s No.3 mobile operator in subscriber numbers and expanded its operations to 18 countries. He was closely associated with Airtel’s successful launch of and scaling up the Satellite TV business to cross the 10-million customer base and the rapid expansion of Airtel’s Global Business which has more than 1,000 customers across the globe, including major Telco’s.

An award -winning senior executive, he was judged the Best Telecom CFO in 2014 by CNBC TV18. He also held the role of Chief Human Resources Officer for 3 years at Airtel, driving a transformational people agenda impacting 20,000 employees. Airtel was among the 20 ‘Best Companies to Work For’ in the Business Today surveys in 2016 and 2018.

Srikanth Balachandran started his career as a management trainee at Unilever, where he spent 23 years across a number leadership roles in Finance, Supply Chain and HR in India and UK. He is a Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is a Commerce graduate from the University of Madras and was also a recipient of the prestigious National Talent Scholarship in India.