MTS India gets new management team

GURGAON, INDIA: MTS, the mobile telephony services brand of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd., has announced key senior level appointments in its top management team, including Cheenu Seshadri as chief strategy officer, Corporate Centre, Gurgaon;  Sandeep Yadav as chief operating officer for Rajasthan circle operations, and V K Cherian as Director – Corporate Communication for the Corporate Centre in Gurgaon.

All of them will report directly to the SSTL President and CEO, Vsevolod Rozanov.

Rozanov said, “I am delighted to see the team grow and welcome them to team MTS. It gives me great satisfaction to see the further strengthening of the top management team which is important since MTS is poised for significant growth in the coming months”

The company’s Chief Strategy Officer, Cheenu Seshadri comes from Motorola, Illinois, USA, where he was the Vice President – Strategy. With a distinguished career spanning over 15 years, he brings with him a rich and diversified experience in strategy and operations.

Cheenu has also held very distinguished, senior level positions with global business & strategy consulting firm, Bain & Co. in Atlanta and with JDSU, a leading provider of optical products and test and measurement solutions for the communications industry, based out of Indianapolis. Cheenu has a distinguished academic record – he is an alumnus of the prestigious BoothSchool of Management, University of Chicago. He also holds an MS, degree in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York, Binghamton and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Sandeep Yadav joins as the chief Operating Officer for Rajasthan circle and has over 17 years of experience in executive decision-making and strategic business planning with an exceptional track record in the Telecom and Hospitality industries. In his last assignment, Sandeep was heading the sales operations for Idea Cellular in the Delhi NCR region.

Sandeep has also held similar senior-level roles with Idea Telecommunications, Reliance Infocomm Ltd, Hutchison Telecom Ltd and Hexacom in various parts of the country. Early in his career, he also headed the Sales Operations for ITC Group of Hotels in Delhi and Rajasthan. Sandeep did an ‘Executive Program in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.