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Indus Towers names Venkatesh Tiwari as chief operating officer
Amazon veteran to take charge as Tejinder Kalra retires in August
MUMBAI: Indus Towers Limited has appointed Venkatesh Tiwari as chief operating officer, marking a key leadership transition as the company prepares for the retirement of its current COO, Tejinder Singh Kalra, later this year.
Tiwari’s appointment, effective April 1, places him within the company’s senior management personnel and sets the stage for a smooth handover ahead of Kalra’s retirement on August 31.
Bringing nearly three decades of experience, Tiwari joins from Amazon, where he held multiple leadership roles across operations, logistics and quick commerce. He played a central role in launching ultra-fast delivery services in India and scaling complex supply chain networks, including grocery, same-day delivery and third-party logistics.
His career spans a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, consumer electronics and FMCG. Before Amazon, he held leadership positions at Samsung, Bharti Airtel and Perfetti Van Melle, where he worked across operations, sales, customer service and marketing functions.
At Airtel, Tiwari contributed to several strategic and operational initiatives, gaining experience that aligns closely with Indus Towers’ core business in telecom infrastructure. His expertise in managing large-scale operations and customer-focused transformation is expected to support the company’s next phase of growth.
The appointment comes at a time when telecom infrastructure providers are navigating rising data demand and network expansion, making operational leadership increasingly critical.
With Tiwari stepping in and a transition window in place, Indus Towers appears to be ensuring continuity while bringing in fresh perspective. As the baton passes later this year, the focus will be on maintaining momentum in a fast-evolving digital ecosystem.
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YES Bank appoints S Anantharaman as chief risk officer
Former Jio Financial Services group chief risk officer takes charge of enterprise-wide risk at the embattled private lender
MUMBAI: YES Bank is not taking chances with risk anymore. The private lender has appointed S Anantharaman as its chief risk officer, a hire that signals the bank’s continued effort to rebuild credibility and tighten the controls that once famously slipped.
Anantharaman arrives from Jio Financial Services, where he served as group chief risk officer and built a risk management architecture spanning lending, payments, insurance broking and asset management from the ground up. Before that, he held the chief risk officer role at Bank of Baroda and senior leadership positions at HDFC Bank and L&T Finance Holdings. Three decades in banking and financial services, in other words, with scars and qualifications to match. He is a chartered accountant and a CFA charterholder.
At YES Bank, his brief is considerable. Anantharaman will oversee the bank’s entire enterprise-wide risk framework, covering credit policy, market risk, operational risk, information security, data governance, analytics, model governance and data privacy. It is, in short, every lever that matters when a bank is trying to prove it has grown up.
YES Bank’s turbulent past needs little rehearsing. What it needs now is exactly what Anantharaman has spent thirty years building: the kind of risk culture that stops problems before they become headlines. The appointment suggests the bank knows it.
