Jai Menon

Background

About Jai Menon

Dr. Menon is a global technology leader with over three decades of experience across US, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.He has traversed 2 phases – a researcher, a corporate leader – and now into a 3rd phase of entrepreneurship. He is mentoring (and sometimes investing) in a few companies across domains including IoT, smart infrastructure, energy and cloud.Dr. Menon started at IBM’s Watson Labs (US) and rose to a Director in IBM’s Software Group, leading internet rich media. He then served as CTO of AT & T (BellSouth, US) and rose to Corporate Officer and EVP managing growth businesses. He subsequently held leadership positions across Asia and Africa as Group CIO of Bharti Enterprises (across industries including telecom, retail, infrastructure, software and financial services) and for Bharti Airtel as - Director (Global Innovation), Joint President (Enterprise Business), Director (Customer Service) and CTIO (Africa). Dr. Menon subsequently moved to the media industry as Group Director and CTO, HT Media spanning news, digital, radio and education.He has received several global recognitions, including Global CIO 50 (US), Forbes (US), GSMA (Spain), TechForum (US), Telecom Asia (Hong Kong), IDC (Singapore), Asia-Pacific CIO (US) and NASSCOM (India). He was conferred the IIT-Delhi Distinguished Alumnus Award (India) in 2010.He has authored over 35 US patents and nearly 100 international research publications. He has also served on several global advisory bodies and boards, including the TM Forum, Center for CIO Leadership (New York), GSMA Executive Management Committee, IBM Corporation, Oracle Corporation and Teradata. He has been a member of ASME, ACM, Phi Kappa Phi as well as committees including NASSCOM and CII.Dr. Menon received his PhD and MS from Cornell University (US) and BTech (first rank) from IIT, Delhi (India). He has completed management programs at Harvard, Wharton and Sloan (MIT).