Shyam Mardikar

Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar (born 23 March 1971) is The Group Chief Technology Officer - Mobility at Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (India), an Indian multinational telecommunications services company, headquartered at Reliance Corporate Park, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, it operates a national LTE and 5G network with coverage across all 22 telecom circles.

In 1995, he joined the Department of telecommunications as an Indian Telecom Service officer and held various operational and management positions across the country.

Shyam moved out of DoT and joined Bharti Airtel in 2001 as the head of network planning for their fixed line operations.

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.

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.