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Vikram Sinha is an Indian telecommunications executive, serving as President Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indosat Oooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH) in Indonesia since December 28, 2021.[1]
He also serves on the Board of Ooredoo Maldives, PT. Aplikanusa Lintasarta, and Indosat Singapore Pte. Ltd., and joined the TM Forum Board of Trustees in July 2025.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Vikram Sinha was born and grew up in Jamshedphur, India. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from Bangalore University (1998), followed by a postgraduate diploma in International Management from International Management Institute, New Delhi (2002).[3][4]
Career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Sinha began his professional journey at Coca-Cola in India, before moving into the telecommunications sector with Bharti Airtel in 2005. There he held various leadership roles at Bharti Airtel India between 2005 and 2021, then served as Managing Director of Bharti Airtel Seychelles in 2012 - 2013, and then as Chief Operating Officer at Bharti Airtel Congo in 2014, before moving to the Ooredoo Group in 2014.[5]
Ooredoo Group (2014 - 2021)
[edit]In 2014, he joined Ooredoo Group, first serving as CEO of Ooredoo Maldives, then between 2017 and 2019 as CEO of Ooredoo Myanmar.[6]
Leadership of Indosat (2019 - current)
[edit]In early 2019, Sinha joined Indosat Ooredoo as Chief Operating Officer and led a transformation of the company that turned around a period of declining financial performance.[7]
In 2022, Indosat Ooredoo merged with Hutchison 3 Indonesia to form Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison ("Indosat"), with Sinha appointed CEO of the combined entity.[8] As of the end of 2024, Indosat served close to 100 million mobile customers in Indonesia and was the country's second-largest telecom operator with revenues of over $3 billion.[9]
Strategic initiatives
[edit]Network enhancement
[edit]Since 2022, Sinha has overseen the significant enhancement of Indosat's mobile network across Indonesia, particularly in underserved rural areas of Eastern Indonesia.[10][11] As of 1Q 2025, Indosat has 202,179 4G base transceiver stations (BTS) providing mobile coverage to over 95% of the Indonesian population.
Artificial intelligence
[edit]Sinha is leading Indosat through a transformation to become an AI-Native Company, embedding AI into the company's operations and developing new AI-powered business lines.[12] In 2024, Indosat, through its subsidiary Lintasarta, partnered with NVIDIA to provide AI Cloud services to customers in Indonesia. [13][14]
In 2025, Sinha led Indosat's partnership with GoTo Group, NVIDIA and other partners to launch a 70-billion parameter open-source large language model, called Sahabat-AI, which can be used in local Indonesian languages.[15][16][17]
Awards and recognition
[edit]In July 2025, Sinha was invited to join the Board of Trustees of the TM Forum, a global industry association for service provides and their suppliers in the telecommunications industry.
Last year in 2024, he received The CEO of the Year award at the Twimbit Telecom Awards for his leadership in executing a world-class merger which is now a benchmark in the telecom industry.[18] Sinha was also named Merit Leader CEO of the Year at the 12th edition of the Telecom Review Excellence Awards.[19]
In 2023, Fortune Indonesia also named him among the country's Businesspersons of the Year, highlighting his role in orchestrating the Indosat-Hutchison merger and expanding 4G/5G infrastructure across the archipelago.[20]
References
[edit]- ^ "PT Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Tbk Appoints Vikram Sinha As CEO". BW Businessworld. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ "Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison CEO Vikram Sinha Joins TM Forum Board of Trustees". TM Forum. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ www.ETTelecom.com. "Indosat to lead Indonesia's AI revolution under CEO Vikram Sinha". ETTelecom.com. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ "Vikram Sinha - IDO1.DE | Indosat - Wall Street Journal". www.wsj.com. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ "Vikram Sinha: Telco Merger Playbook, AI Bets & The Risk Most CEO Hindari - E586 - Komunitas Podcast Tech Asia Tenggara Berani: Singapura, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia & Filipina". BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech Podcast Community: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia & Philippines (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ "Qatar's Ooredoo Appoints Vikram Sinha As CEO Of Ooredoo Myanmar". Reuters. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ "Indosat Ooredoo Hutchinson Empowers Indonesia With Digital Talent Initiatives Accelerate The Nation's Digital Transformation - Telecom Review Asia". 2022-09-20. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ Post, The Jakarta. "Indosat Ooredoo and Hutchison Tri Indonesia officially merge as one - Companies". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ Comment, Paul Lipscombe (2024-08-06). "Connecting Nusantara: Indosat CEO Vikram Sinha on building the network for Indonesia's new capital city". www.datacenterdynamics.com. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ Lim, Lionel. "21 million Indonesians will go online by 2027. The country's second-largest telco wants to 'tap that opportunity'". Fortune Asia. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ "Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison installing 4G in Indonesia's new capital". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ Kaur, Gagandeep (2025-04-18). "Indosat is using AI to overhaul its operations – here's how". www.fierce-network.com. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ "Indosat eyes GPU-as-a-service with Nvidia collaboration". www.lightreading.com. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ Tanner, John (2024-08-22). "Indosat's Lintasarta launches Nvidia-powered AI cloud". Developing Telecoms. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ "Indonesia's Indosat, GoTo launch local-language AI model". Reuters. 2024-11-14. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ Lim, Lionel. "Indonesia's Indosat and Goto unveil a new 'sovereign AI' that can chat in the country's most-used languages". Fortune Asia. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ Gomes, Joao (2024-11-14). "Indonesia Tech Leaders Team With NVIDIA and Partners to Launch Nation's AI". NVIDIA Blog. Retrieved 2025-07-31.
- ^ "Twimbit Telecom Awards 2024: Honoring Telecom Excellence and Innovation". twimbit.com. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ "Telecom Review Excellence Awards 2023: Vikram Sinha, President Director & CEO Indosat Clinches Merit Leader CEO of the Year Asia - Telecom Review Asia". 2024-02-26. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ "- Businessperson of the Year | Fortune Indonesia". ranking.fortuneidn.com. Retrieved 2025-07-29.