Mr. Manoj Kumar Kohli

Independent Director

Some careers are built on a single defining achievement. Mr. Kohli's has compounded across four decades and three of India's most consequential industries. In 2000, he was named “Telecom Man of the Year”, recognised at the peak of an era when he was scaling Bharti Airtel into a 550-million-customer business across 20 countries, a feat that reshaped how a billion people communicate. What followed was equally consequential - stewarding 7 gigawatts of renewable energy at SB Energy, then guiding SoftBank's US$15 billion India portfolio through its most transformative years. Each chapter larger than the last. Each one proof that the rarest quality in business is not intelligence or ambition, it is the ability to build at scale, repeatedly, without losing the instinct for what matters. That instinct now sits on Cemindia's board.