Our Team

The Senior Leadership Team comprises of renowned and respected professionals from both the Industry and the Government.

Aruna Sundararajan IAS

Aruna Sundararajan IAS (Rtd.)

Former Secretary – Telecom, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Chairperson, Digital Communications Commission (DCC), Chairperson, BIF

Shyamal Ghosh IAS (Rtd.)

Former Secretary-Telecom & IT Govt. of India and first Administrator of the USO Fund, Chairman Emeritus, BIF

MF Farooqui IAS (Rtd.)

Former Secretary – Telecom of the Govt. of India Chairman Emeritus, BIF

TV Ramachandran

Founder & CEO of advisory@TVR, President, BIF

Other notable leaders who lend their knowledge and acumen to BIF include:

Ashwani Rana

Vice President – BIF
Shiv nath Thukral

Shivnath Thukral

Vice President – BIF

SN Gupta

Treasurer – BIF

Arun Seth

Chief Mentor

CS Rao

Chief Mentor-Technology

Panel of Honorary Principal Advisors

Prof. KK Aggarwal

Dr. N Sarat Chandra Babu

Dr. BM Baveja

Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya

Amrita Choudhury

PK Garg

Alok Gupta

SK Gupta

Prof. Rekha Jain

Ravi Kant

Parag Kar

Abhishek Malhotra

Mr. Yaduvendra Mathur (IAS retd.), former Special Secretary, NITI Aayog

Yaduvendra Mathur

Rajesh Mehrotra

KV Seshasayee

Dr. Kuldip Singh

Brig. Anil Tandan

AK Tiwari

Dr. Mahesh Uppal

Valsa Williams

Our Notable BIF Directorate who lend their knowledge and acumen to BIF include:

Debashish Bhattacharya

Acting Director General

Arun Mukarji

Sr. Director – Operations

Sundeep Kathuria

Sr. Consultant
Dr Shiv Kumar

Dr Shiv Kumar

Principal Advisor

Atul Jain

Director – Technology & Standards

Neema Sunil Kumar

Director – Project & Coordination

Anand Gupta

Director – Administration & Govt. Affairs

Seema

Deputy Dy. – Coordination

Swapnil Shukla

Manager – Finance & Administration

Mohit Kumar

Sr. Executive – IT & Administration