Bharti Airtel, on Thursday announced the appointment of Manish Prakash as the Director for Enterprise & Government reporting into Gopal Vittal, Jt.MD & CEO (India), Bharti Airtel Limited.

He joins Airtel from Accenture where he was the Managing Director - Infrastructure Managed Services (IMS) for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ). Prior to Accenture, Manish was also associated with SK C&C, the affiliate company of SK Telecom in Korea as the Chief Executive Officer of the international business division and served on the Board of the affiliate organizations across China, India, Central Asia and US. He has also held leadership roles at Tech Mahindra, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

In his role, Manish will be responsible for overall strategy and leadership for the company’s Business-to-business (B2B) in India. His focus will be to consolidate Airtel’s Enterprise and Government business, devise and execute growth strategies, lead product innovation and inject world-class process and service capabilities within the organization. He will also be a part of the Airtel Management Board (AMB).

Manish brings with him over 20 years of global executive leadership experience in building sustainable organizations from inception and driving growth across global markets and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France and an Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT, Suratkal.