Who is Uninor

Stefan Kercza joins Unitech Wireless from Telenor Denmark, where he was the Chief Marketing Officer. Stefan has been a part of the management team in Denmark since 2006 and holds an experience in the telecom Industry for more than 28 years in various areas. He holds a degree in Masters in Business Administration.

Ann Hofvander took over as the CEO of Bangalore hub in June 2009. She becomes the first woman to hold such a post in the Indian telecom industry and enters the list of leading women in corporate India.

Prior to joining Unitech Wireless, Ann’s other corporate jobs include Vice President Sales & Customer Care and Vice President, Consumer Business Unit at Vodafone (initially Oskar Mobil) in Czech Republic. She has also served as Vice President, Client Services & Technology Direction at Webhelp Inc. and Director Customer Centre Operations at Agilon Financial Inc., both in Toronto, Canada.

Akash Das has over 16 years of telecom experience with leading international telco companies. Before joining Unitech Wireless, he served Nokia Siemens Networks where he held the position of Vice President for Mobile Operators in Malaysia and was responsible for aligning customer’s key business drivers and thus developing and creating profitable business. Prior to this, Akash held important positions in Siemens AG and EBEN Technologies GmbH, in Germany.

Sriram Mahadevan has broad experience from his career as a Chartered Accountant & Cost Accountant and has spent more than 17 years in FMCG, Banking, Retail and Telecom industry. Prior to joining Uninor, he led the rollout of Tata DOCOMO in Kerala as Chief Operating Officer for the circle. He started his career with SREI Finance, Shaw Wallace, Coca-Cola and Reliance Retail.

Dushyan was seconded from DiGi Telecommunications in Malaysia and has eight years of telco experience. During this time, Dushyan has evolved from a role in corporate strategy to marketing and his last held position was as Head of Consumer Marketing in Digi.

He started his career in investment banking and subsequently worked in the strategic division of Malaysia's securities regulator. As a regulator, he was part of a working team that developed a 10 year blue print for the development and liberalisation of the Malaysian securities market. He was also seconded to a policy forum of the Asian Development Bank that looked at the development of Bond Markets in light of the Asian financial crisis of 1997.

He qualified from the University of Exeter in the UK with a law degree.

Kerstin Thulin has earlier served as the Chief Human Resource Officer at Telenor Serbia. Kerstin Thulin enjoys more than 30-years of experience from senior managerial and senior consultant positions mainly working with start-ups and transformation projects. Kerstin holds a degree in Public Administration in addition to post graduate studies in HR Management and languages. She has worldwide experience from Africa, Asia, Europe and Middle East working mostly with Telecom & IT but also spanning other industries.

Rajiv Bawa has been associated with Unitech Wireless almost since it’s inception. Prior to that Rajiv was based in the US where his experiences included strong international business knowledge in emerging markets, M&A, and startups. He has held a variety of consulting, sales and strategy leadership positions within IBM focusing on sectors such as FMCG, distribution and technology services. He has also lived in Japan, where he was a part of the executive steering group of a large FMCG company implementing a business transformation and ERP project. During the peak of the dot com days in the US, Rajiv was the director of marketing and business development of a software startup organization. He has a Masters in Computer Science from University of Maryland and a certificate in management from Wharton School of Business.

Allan Bonke joins Unitech Wireless from Telenor, Denmark, where he served as the Chief Sales/Marketing Officer. In the year 2000, he played a vital role in the start up of the Sales organization of Telenor’s Cybercity, a broadband and fixed solution, which today it is a combined organization.

Before his association with Telenor since 2000, Allan had a vast career in the field of finance and banking and was associated with Copenhagen Stock Exchange, Jyske Bank and Bikuben in Denmark.

Frode Haugen joined Unitech Wireless beginning of Nov 2009 and is now based in Lucknow. He has earlier been CEO of Cell One in Namibia (a green field mobile operator) and CEO of Ghana Telecom (incumbent fixed and mobile operator) prior to its privatization and acquisition by Vodafone in 2008. He has served as Managing Director for Alcatel-Lucent responsible for the Nordic and Baltic market servicing all the telecom operators. He has previously worked in Asia where he spent 7 years based in Singapore as Managing Director for Tandberg Data Pte Ltd where he developed sales and distribution channels throughout the whole Asia Pacific including India.

Frode has a Master of Science in Telecom from the University of Trondheim in Norway

Alok Shankar has recently assumed the responsibility of Hub Head Bihar & Jharkahand. Before moving to Patna, Alok was based in Delhi as CEO of a large multinational handset distribution company. He has spent more than a decade in the telecommunication industry working closely with device manufacturers and mobile network operators. His experience includes business development, sales, operations, distribution, retail and IT in Indian and Middle East Markets. Alok has also lived in UAE where he was involved in establishing the first organised retail distribution company in the Middle East. Alok is an engineer and has a Masters in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management.

Olav comes from the position as Director of Broadband & Telephony, Consumer Division, Telenor Norway where he joined in 2005. Before that he was CEO of the Internet and Broadband company Tiscali Norway since 2000 (which is acquired by Telenor Norway). Olav finished his MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU) in 1986, and his MSc degree in Business Administration at NHH in 1989 while working offshore for Transocean. In total, Olav has worked 11 years in the oil & gas industry for Transocean and Schlumberger, spending 7 years as CFO in Houston, Texas.

Rohit Chandra has over 23 years of experience in various management functions with leading Telecom Corporations in India. Rohit joins Unitech Wireless from Aircel, where he was entrusted the responsibility of building Greenfield Mobile Telecom Operations in North & East India during the period 2004 to 2008. Prior to this, Rohit has worked with Ericsson, as Executive Vice President & Head Marketing & Technical Solutions for India & Sri Lanka Region till 2004. Rohit started his career in 1986 with Philips, in the Telecommunications Division and also worked with Tata Group Companies & leading Telecommunication Test & Measuring Systems Company Wandel & Goltermann Gmbh as the Country Manager for India till 1999. Rohit is an Engineer in Electronics & Communication, a permanent member of the Institution of Engineers Australia and was the founder Chairman of the India Chapter of The Global Mobile Suppliers Association(GSA).