Gupta is the former Vice Chairman of Bharti Enterprises and has been associated with the growth of Bharti since its inception. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of 360 ONE WAM Ltd and Bharti Life Insurance Ltd.
He also serves on the boards of Zepto, Snapdeal, Eutelsat Communications and Lodha Developers. Gupta is a Chartered Accountant with more than 40 years of professional experience. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2002.
He has received awards including the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Chartered Accountant Lifetime Achievement Award and Chartered Accountant Global Achiever Award from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
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Gupta is also the author of Some Sizes Fit All, a management book published by Penguin Random House.
He is the President of the Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) and former Chairman of the Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (DIPA). He is also a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Telecom & Broadband and the CII Task Force on Insolvency and Bankruptcy.
He has previously served on the Advisory Committee on Service Providers of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India and the Sub Committee of the Insolvency Law Committee, Government of India.
Vivek Sharma, Non-Executive Director and interim Chairperson, said, “We are very excited to onboard an exceptional candidate as the Chairperson of Coforge. We ran a very rigorous and intense global search process in partnership with Egon Zehnder, with a focus on finding a candidate with the highest governance experience, professional expertise, and strategic perspectives – criteria that I had shared earlier at our investor meeting.ALSO READ | Coforge shares jump 10% after record margin performance, strong guidance
A starting list of 60 exceptional candidates was whittled down over time, and Akhil emerged as the unanimous choice of all members of the NRC and the Board. I wish to thank my fellow Board members for working across the weekends and time zones to ensure that this important mandate had their complete support and involvement. We worked assiduously to ensure that all aspects of NRC and Board processes were complied with as we assessed an exceptional palette of candidates.”
Sudhir Singh, CEO and Executive Director, said, “We are very excited to have Akhil Gupta join us as the Chairperson at a very important time for the industry and the firm. Gupta was instrumental in Bharti Enterprises successfully navigating multiple business shifts during his watch and association with Bharti Enterprises.
As our industry, in turn, navigates the AI-led era and as Coforge pivots towards making the promise of AI real for enterprises, we welcome Gupta as he steps onto the Board. We are excited about the immense opportunities ahead of us and thrilled to have a person of his calibre and governance experience join us as the Chairperson of the Board.”
Shares of Coforge Ltd ended at ₹1,773.00, down by ₹17.00, or 0.95%, on the BSE.
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