Together good things happen - Airtel

Pulak Chandan Prasad
Rakesh Bharti Mittal
Tan Yong Choo
Bharti Airtel Annual Report 2009-10
Pulak Chandan Prasad is an independent director and a member of the Board Audit Committee of
Bharti Airtel. He initially joined the Board as a nominee of Warburg Pincus in November 2001.
He is the Founder and Managing Director of Nalanda Capital, a Singapore based fund management
and advisory company. Prior to creating Nalanda, Pulak was Managing Director and co-head of the India
office of Warburg Pincus, covering their India, South and South East Asian operations. He joined
Warburg Pincus in 1998. From 1992 to 1998, Pulak was a management consultant with McKinsey
& Company in India, USA and South Africa.
Pulak has a B.Tech Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a MBA from the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Rajan Bharti Mittal
Rajan Bharti Mittal is the Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises. He is a
non-executive director, Chairman of the Board ESOP Compensation Committee and a member of the
Board HR Committee of Bharti Airtel. He is a graduate from Panjab University and an Alumnus of
Harvard Business School.
He is currently the President of FICCI and is also a member of the Managing and Standing
Committees of PHDCCI, a member of the Council of Management of AIMA, and a member of the
Executive Committee of International Chambers of Commerce – India chapter.
He has held several key positions in various industry associations in the past as well. In FICCI he was
the Chairman of Retail Committee in 2007, Infrastructure Committee in 2006, Telecom & IT
Committee in 2004 & 2005, and Telecom Committee in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Rakesh Bharti Mittal is the Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises. He is a
non-executive director and a member of the Board Audit Committee of Bharti Airtel. He is the
Chairman of Bharti AXA Life Insurance, Bharti AXA General Insurance, FieldFresh Foods, Comviva
Technologies, Centum Learning and Beetel Teletech.
Rakesh is the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)'s National Council for Agriculture. He
is a member of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA).
Rakesh is a member of the Executive Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and the Co-chairman
of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management.
He is also on the Advisory Board of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Southern Methodist
University (SMU), Dallas, USA. Rakesh is the Co-chairman of the Bharti Foundation. He is an
electronics engineer with rich experience of over 34 years.
Yong Choo is a nominee of SingTel and was appointed as a non-executive director of Bharti Airtel in
January 2010. She is also a member of the Board Audit Committee.
She has a wide range of working experience gained from her stints in international accounting firms
as well as in multinational corporations. She began her career with SingTel in November 1994 and
was appointed to her current role as Group Financial Controller in June 2007, with responsibilities for
the Group’s financial functions including reporting, planning and forecasting. She also provides high
level financial advice that would affect operations and is primarily responsible for financial policies
and procedures. Prior to joining SingTel, Yong Choo worked for several years in international
accounting firms, Coopers & Lybrand and Arthur Anderson.
Yong Choo holds a Second Class Honours Degree in Accountancy from the National University of
Singapore and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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