Ankur Jindal has over 21 years of experience in the ICT domain, where he has held diverse roles ranging from Strategy and Consulting to Innovation, Corporate Venturing, Sales, and Operations. He has 11 years of experience in M&A, Strategy & Consulting, six years in International Sales & Operations, and three years in Innovation and Venturing. Currently, Ankur is leading the global innovation and corporate Venturing efforts for Tata Communications worth $2.8bn. He is part of the founding team that led Europe Sales at TCL's transformation services startup, now close to a $200M business. Ankur led the company-wide strategy planning program at TCL and successfully co-founded and set up the Telecom Consulting Practice in TSMG, growing it into the largest practice with P&L responsibility. Ankur has played a cross-functional leadership role in various new initiatives like the G-NOC setup for a European Telco, Global Delivery Center for Teleglobe, and Tata Group's entry into Mobile, Retail Broadband, VSAT, Enterprise Data, BPO, DTH & Transformation Services. Ankur's specialties range from leading multi-national teams, driving external startup ecosystem partnerships and investments, strategy & planning, and coaching and mentoring CxOs.