Krishnamurthy Shankar joined Bharti Airtel in March 2007. He is a member of the Airtel Management Board.
Prior to joining Bharti, Shankar worked with Unilever Asia-Africa as Vice President, Human Resources. He started his career with Eicher Tractors in 1984 as Unit Personnel Officer and thereafter he has held various roles in Hindustan Lever Ltd and Unilever, spanning the diverse areas of HR, as well as key business partnering functions.
Shankar has over 22 years of professional experience in enterprise level roles, including restructuring, change management, performance, people alignment and driving the HR transformation agenda to deliver strategic value for the business.
He is a member of the Global Mobile HR Steering Board.
Shankar holds a post graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI Jamshedpur.
