Rentala Chandrashekhar was the former president of NASSCOM and former Secretary to the Indian Department of Information Technology, as well as former Secretary, Department of Telecommunications.
[1] He is also a member of the government's technology advisory group, TAGUP.
He has had a distinguished career in the Department of Information Technology, where he initiated the National e-Governance Programme.
He is also a former Telecom Secretary of India, a position putting him in charge of the 2G spectrum auction in 2012.
[3] The auction had gained widespread attention after the Supreme Court quashed 2G licenses issued in 2008 and called for a fresh auction of the affected licenses.