Jai Prakash Menon

Jai Prakash Menon is an Indian technology executive.[1]

Jai Menon
Born
Kerala, India
Alma materIIT Delhi,
Cornell University
OccupationTechnology executive
Websitehttp://menonjai.com/

Menon started his career at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center[2] and became an IBM executive Director in IBM's Software Group, heading worldwide research-to-market business for rich media.

From there he joined AT&T (formerly BellSouth) as Chief Technology Officer for IT across all lines of businesses.[3]

Menon returned to India and joined Bharti Airtel in 2002 as CIO and Corporate Director – IT. Additionally, he launched Airtel's Enterprise Business as its Joint President, and subsequently ran Customer Service for India as its Director.

In 2007, he was also made the Group CIO for Bharti Enterprises, which is the parent company of Bharti Airtel. When Airtel expanded to Africa, he was additionally appointed as Chief Technology and Information Officer of Airtel Africa, where he ran Networks and IT, in addition to serving as Bharti's Group CIO. He developed "the model of outsourcing network" used by Bharti and other companies in the industry.[2] He left the company in both 2005 and 2010 to briefly work for other telecom companies before returning to Airtel.[4]

On 6 December 2013 Menon unexpectedly left his post as CIO at Bharti Airtel amidst accusations of violations of the company's code of conduct by steering company contracts to businesses in which he had stakes.[2][5][6][7] Menon states he left so he could return to doing "technology research and creat[ing] IP (intellectual property) and technologies".[8] Menon was hired by HT Media businesses covering news, radio, entertainment, education and digital.[9]

Awards
  • IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award (India, 2010)[10]
  • Informationweek Global CIO 50 (USA, 2009)[11]
  • GSMA Global Mobile Award (Barcelona, 2008)[12]
  • IDC Asia-Pacific Enterprise Innovation Award (Singapore, 2009)[13]

References
  1. "Management Team - HT". htmedia.in. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  2. Mankotia, Anandita Singh (7 December 2013). "Bharti Airtel sacks group CIO Jai Menon for alleged code of conduct violations". The Economic Times. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  3. "Bell South News Archive". Bell South. 21 September 2010. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  4. "Jai Menon quits Vodafone, heads back to Airtel". 8 April 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  5. Bharti Airtel Group CIO Jai Menon Quits, CXO Today. Retrieved 30 April 2014
  6. Bharti Group IT director Jai Menon quits, Hindustan Times. Retrieved
  7. Bharti Group IT Director Jai Menon Quits Archived 2 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Outlook India. Retrieved 30 April 2014
  8. Shauvik Ghosh (6 December 2013). "Bharti Enterprises CIO Jai Menon quits". Wall Street Journal - Mint. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  9. "Jai Menon, ex-CIO Bharti Enterprises, joins HT Media". Mint. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  10. "IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awards 2010". IIT Delhi. 21 September 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  11. Informationweek Global CIO 50 (USA, 2009)
  12. "GSMA Global Mobile Awards". GSMA Global Mobile Awards. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  13. "IDC Awards 2009". Enterprise Innovation. 21 September 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
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