Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar

Accomplished technology thought leader with proven leadership stints in telecommunications industry across Network and IT domains in Strategy, Planning, Engineering and Operations across India and Europe with world's largest telcos. Telecom evangelist with a transformative outlook towards the new software and data driven movement towards digital telecom DNA ( Devices, Network, Applications ) instrumental in creating a flatter, closer to the customer, service aware network moving from a telco to techco. Telecom strategist with an innovative and out of box thought process to formulate architecture and technology plans options around spectrum, technology and digital evolution with a customer backwards outlook. Leadership stints include, leading the • world's largest and fastest ever 5G transformation to a hyper scale SA only network • cross geography digital transformation for the telco to techco operating model • geography leaders to manage network changes and operational performance • launch of India’s first U900 , L1800 networks and "first of its kind" re-farming of a large network • multi-domain Engineering and planning teams for investment planning and creating annual operating plans for a diversified network system with multi-billion dollar outlay –across all network domains • creation of technology out-look and business support for an integrated telco across B2C and B2B verticals and drive higher capex productivity and opex efficiency • multi-domain architecture teams to create the network blueprint based on market dynamics, techno-regulatory ecosystem and technology roadmap • large scale and complex transformation projects around network modernization, spectrum re-farming, migration of platforms across large geographies and customer base Industry awards and recognitions include • 2017 | Voice and Data CTO of the year • 2018 | TelecomLead CTO of the year • 2021 | Featured in 5G 50 to watch CTO list from lightreading • 2022 | Topped the startupLanes list of top 20 CTOs in India • 2023 | Economic times ET CTO of the year • 2023 | Financial Express FE visionary leader in the field of telecom