{"id":1039303,"date":"2026-09-29T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039303"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:12:20","slug":"coforge-appoints-former-bharti-enterprises-executive-akhil-gupta-as-chairman-after-board-upheaval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/coforge-appoints-former-bharti-enterprises-executive-akhil-gupta-as-chairman-after-board-upheaval\/","title":{"rendered":"Coforge appoints former Bharti Enterprises executive Akhil Gupta as chairman after board upheaval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT services company Coforge has appointed former Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman Akhil Kumar Gupta as its chairperson and non-executive independent director for five years, effective Tuesday, as the company seeks to draw a line under a period of boardroom turmoil. <\/p>\n<p>Gupta&#8217;s appointment follows the abrupt resignation of former chairman and veteran banker O P Bhatt on September 9 after an internal audit found that he had withheld a board evaluation report that assigned his own performance category the lowest rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT services company Coforge has appointed former Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman Akhil Kumar Gupta as its chairperson and non-executive independent director for five years, effective Tuesday, as the company seeks to draw a line under a period of boardroom turmoil. Gupta&#8217;s appointment follows the abrupt resignation of former chairman and veteran banker O P Bhatt on September 9 after an internal audit found that he had withheld a board evaluation report that assigned his own performance category the lowest rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039325,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039303\/revisions\/1039325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}