Jai Prakash Menon

For other uses, see Dr Jai Menon.

Jai Menon
Born	Kerala, India
Residence	India
Citizenship	USA
Alma mater	Cornell University, USA IIT Delhi, India
Occupation	Group Director Bharti Enterprises, CTIO, Bharti Airtel (International)

Dr. Jai Menon is currently^[when?] the Group Director - IT for Bharti Enterprise Group. As Global CIO, Menon provides IT leadership for all businesses of Bharti Enterprises, including retail (with Walmart), financial services (with AXA), manufacturing and distribution (Bharti Teletech), agriculture (with Delmonte), software (Comviva), tower infrastructure (Infratel, Indus), learning and resourcing (Centum) and the Bharti Foundation. He is involved in establishing group IT architecture and security standards and develop appropriate partner governance mechanism.^{[citation needed]}

He has developed outcome-oriented S1 outsourcing IT models^[1] for Bharti Airtel, an innovation that is now being adopted by several other players in the industry. He has been one of the global pioneers of outcome-oriented IT outsourcing models and has executed these models successfully over the past several years across multiple partners and industries.

Early career

Menon started his career at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Labs, USA and became an IBM executive, he was executive Director in IBM’s Software Group heading worldwide research-to-market business for rich media. He then joined AT&T (formerly BellSouth) as the Chief Technology Officer (eCTO) for IT across all lines of businesses. He was subsequently appointed as Corporate Officer and Executive Vice President in Marketing where he managed a portfolio of growth businesses and strategic alliances.^[2]

Awards

• Information Week Global CIO 50 (USA, 2009)^[3]
• Forbes Outsourcing Excellence Award (USA, 2007)^[4]
• GSMA Global Mobile Award (Barcelona, 2008)^[5]
• Telecom Asia Award (Hong Kong, 2009)^[6]
• IDC Asia-Pacific Enterprise Innovation Award (Singapore, 2009)^[7]

References

1. ^ NASSCOM IT Innovation Award 06
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ Informationweek Global CIO 50 (USA, 2009)
4. ^ Forbes Outsourcing Excellence Award, Press Release
5. ^ GSMA Global Mobile Awards
6. ^ [2]
7. ^ Enterprise Innovation - IDC Awards 2009 | Enterprise Innovation

External links

• Bharti Airtel India