Harish Gandhi

Harish Gandhi is an Executive Director at Canaan Partners, a global venture capital company focusing on early stage investments in the technology, telecom and services sector in India. 

Harish is a recognized thought leader in the international telecommunications sector and has over 15 years of industry and operating experience in both India and the U.S. Prior to joining Canaan, Harish spent 12 years in the U.S. in various engineering, product marketing and business development roles – and has spent the past few years guiding the strategic development of next-generation services at some the world’s largest mobile companies..

Most recently, Harish headed the Value Added Services Business and the New Product Development team at Bharti Airtel – India’s largest mobile operator. He grew the VAS business over 50% annually, contributing more than $500 million dollars to Bharti’s topline. In his product development role, Harish was responsible for innovation. He oversaw strategic partnerships with value-added product, service and content companies, as well as system integrators, to bring several new products to market for Bharti Airtel. Harish also served as Vice President of Business Strategy and Planning at Airtel and was responsible for leading the company’s 3G effort and driving several high-impact initiatives for the Mobility business. Prior to Bharti Airtel, Harish was Director of Marketing and Technology at Nokia, where he led the technical sales team responsible for selling network infrastructure and services to mobile operators in India.

Before relocating to India in 2004, Harish worked as Director of Business Development at Dilithium Networks, where he built the company’s business in the U.S. and Japan and also led product marketing. Harish has also worked at Bain & Company as a management consultant, focusing on technology and semiconductor companies as well as in the private equity practice; and also at LCC International as a radio systems engineer responsible for designing, deploying and optimizing mobile networks for U.S. operators.

Harish has BA in technology from IIT Bombay, a MS from the University of Maryland, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School.

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