{"id":981120,"date":"2025-12-19T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981120"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:05:11","slug":"airtel-leadership-changes-gopal-vittal-to-be-executive-vice-chairman-shashwat-sharma-next-md-and-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/airtel-leadership-changes-gopal-vittal-to-be-executive-vice-chairman-shashwat-sharma-next-md-and-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel leadership changes: Gopal Vittal to be executive vice chairman, Shashwat Sharma next MD and CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel has announced a new leadership structure as part of its succession strategy wherein Gopal Vittal, who has led the telecom giant for the last thirteen years, will transition to the role of Executive Vice Chairman. Further, Shashwat Sharma will take the reins as the Managing Director and CEO of Bharti Airtel India. The changes will be effective January 1, 2026. The company says that the reshuffle marks a new chapter for the company as it aims to balance \u201cchange and continuity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gopal Vittal to provide broader oversight for Airtel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel has announced a new leadership structure as part of its succession strategy wherein Gopal Vittal, who has led the telecom giant for the last thirteen years, will transition to the role of Executive Vice Chairman. Further, Shashwat Sharma will take the reins as the Managing Director and CEO of Bharti Airtel India. The changes will be effective January 1, 2026. The company says that the reshuffle marks a new chapter for the company as it aims to balance \u201cchange and continuity\u201d. Gopal Vittal to provide broader oversight for Airtel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981120","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}