Sandip Das joins Analysys Mason as Senior Adviser

Sandip Das, former Reliance Jio MD, former Maxis Group CEO, former CEO of Hutchison Essar Telecom (now Vodafone India), and a stalwart of the telecoms industry will join global telecoms and media consulting firm Analysys Mason as a senior adviser, starting Monday, 2 November.

Analysys Mason is one of the largest telecoms and digital media-focused global management consulting firms with its India office based out of Gurgaon.

“Having worked with Analysys Mason as a client in the past, the firm’s intellectual rigour and in-depth industry knowledge, focus on ethics and principle-based consulting, and un-matched track record of solving some of the most pressing C-level strategy and operations issues impacting the telecoms industry has me looking forward to working alongside Analysys Mason, a firm that I have utmost respect for,” said Mr Das.

The announcement comes at a time when Analysys Mason India has seen explosive growth in its advisory business in India over the last few years.

“Our single TMT industry focus and the rigour of our work has established Analysys Mason as the first port-of-call for a large number of telecom operators in the region across a wide variety of topics such as spectrum strategy, digital services strategy, pricing and go-to-market strategy, as well as operational transformation strategy,” explained Rohan Dhamija, Partner and Head of India and South Asia at Analysys Mason.

The appointment of Mr Das reaffirms the firm’s commitment to serving clients in the region with the best and most senior global talent within the industry.

“Given Mr. Das’s wealth of experience, we look forward to him working with clients to help them traverse the crossroads that the Indian telecoms industry finds itself at: on the one hand, data growth, digital services, and the recent reduction in regulatory overhang (for example, allowing of spectrum trading and sharing) present significant opportunity, while on the other hand, redefinition of the competitive landscape and the evolution of OTT offerings requires existing operators to rethink how they go about their business,” added Rohan Dhamija.