PROFILES:
Mr Sandip Das
Chief Executive Officer,
Maxis Communications Berhad
Sandip Das is the Chief Executive Officer of Maxis Communications Berhad (Maxis), responsible for the Maxis Group’s operations and investments in Malaysia, India and Indonesia. He also serves on the Maxis Board of Directors as Executive Director. In addition, Sandip serves as Director on the board of the Aircel Group (Maxis’ Indian subsidiary) and as Commissioner on the Board of Commissioners of PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler (NTS).
Internationally, Sandip is a member of the board of the Bridge Mobile Alliance, Asia’s largest mobile alliance, comprising the region’s top mobile operators from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. He also serves on the board of the Global GSM Development Fund.
Prior to joining Maxis in January 2007, Sandip was Deputy Managing Director and Director of the Board of Hutchison Essar Telecom (“Hutch”), one of India’s largest mobile operators. He started the company’s operations in India in 1994, and when he left Hutch at the end of 2006, it had more than 23 million subscribers. During his tenure at Hutch, he was voted “CEO of the Year” by Mid Day Publications and Hutch twice won “The Most Respected Telecom Company” awarded by Business World. He was also the Deputy Chairman of the Service Industry Panel of the Confederation of Indian Industries (“CII”).
Before his tenure at Hutch, Sandip served as Franchise Head of Toyota cars and Hino trucks with the Al Futtaim Group in Dubai, UAE for five years. Prior to this, he spent 10 years with Indian consumer durable giant Usha International (The Shriram Group), where he started as a Management Trainee and left as Joint Divisional Manager.
Sandip holds a First class Mechanical Engineering degree from Regional Engineering College, Rourkela, India (now renamed National Institute of Technology), where he graduated in 1978. He also obtained his Masters in Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi in 1986.
