Shyam Mardikar
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Born | Reliance Jio (India) | 23 March 1971
Spouse | Jaishree Mardikar |
Children | 2 |
Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar (born 23 March 1971) is The Group Chief Technology Officer - Mobility at
Personal
Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar was born on 23 March 1971 in Jabalpur. His father was an Indian Forest Service Officer of Madhya Pradesh Cadre.
Shyam attended various schools in Madhya Pradesh including Holy Cross Convent in Raipur (now Chhattisgarh), Miss Hill School in Gwalior and St Xavier's in Surguja (now Chhattisgarh).
He received his Bachelors in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.
Shyam is married to Jaishree Mardikar , who works for GAIL India limited. They have two sons, Shubham and Aniket.
Career Progression
Shyam started his career in 1994 with C-DOT (Centre for development of Telematics) as a software research engineer and was part of the software team upgrading the C-DOT switches to signalling system #7.
In 1995, he joined the
Shyam moved out of
In 2012, Shyam came back to India in Bharti Airtel as Chief of Strategy, Architecture and Engineering.In this role, Shyam was instrumental for transforming the network architecture to a next generation, mobile broad band enabled, data services centric network. He was also instrumental in driving the overall spectrum strategy to ensure sustaining Airtel's leadership position on the technology front and set the benchmark standards for the industry. From 2016 to 2018, he served as Chief Technology Officer of Mobile Networks for Airtel. Along with his role at Bharti Airtel, Shyam also chaired the technology committee of Cellular Operators Association of India
In 2018, Shyam moved out of Bharti Airtel to join Reliance Jio as President and Group CTO of mobility. In 2023, Shyam successfully led the fastest 5G roll out in the world, adding more than one million 5G cells for Reliance Jio in a span of 12 months.
Publications and Strategic Outlook
- 2015 - Story of 3 Vs - predicting the evolution towards a digital life [2]
- 2018 - SIM is the new socket - Highlighting the pervasiveness of digital sockets as the new age interfaces to all sectors of industry[3]
Awards and Recognitions
- 2023 - Financial Express visionary leadership recognition
- 2023 - CTO of the Year Award - ET Telecom [4]
- 2023 - Ranked 1st on Top 30 CTOs of India - Startup Lane [5]
- 2018 - CTO of the year - Voice and Data[6]
- 2017 - CTO of the Year - Telecom Lead
Telecom Summit Presence
- The Brooklyn 6G Summit [7]
- VAS ASIA 2014 [8][failed verification]
- LTE INDIA 2014 [9]
- TD-LTE Summit 2013 [10]
- 4G World India Expo & Conference [11]
- Broadband Tech India 2013 [12]
- VAS Asia 2013 [13]
- VAS India 2010 [14]
- 23rd Convergence India 2015 Expo [15]
- Vision 4G LTE Telecom Conclave [16]
- LTE India 2015
References
- ^ "You are being redirected..." www.voicendata.com.
- ^ "Voice, Video and Virtuality – A story of 3 V's". www.linkedin.com.
- ^ "SIM is the new socket". Linkedln.
- ^ "CTO of the Year Award 2023". telecom.economictimes.
- ^ "CTO of the Year". startuplanes.
- ^ "CTO of the Year". Linkedln.
- ^ "The Brooklyn 6G Summit". ieee.
- ^ "Communications Today".
- ^ "Speakers - LTE India 2014". www.bharatexhibitions.com.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Ravi Shanker, Administrator (USOF), DoT and Chairman & MD, BBNL to Present at 4G World India". DNA India (Press release). 14 February 2013.
- ^ "Government to implement time bound policy for Broadband rollout - insightVAS". insightvas.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2014.
- ^ "DigiVive :: News Detail". www.digivive.com. Archived from the original on 22 July 2013.
- ^ http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/news/printpage.asp?section_id=1&news_id=37039&tag=[dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "NewsX hosts 'Vision 4G LTE Telecom Conclave'". www.bestmediaifo.com. 17 February 2015.