Tata Teleservices appoints Anuraag Srivastava as CFO

Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTL) has appointed Anuraag Srivastava, who has been a finance professional for over 20 years, as its chief financial officer.

Prior to this, Srivastava was senior vice president, internal audit and assurance, at Indus Towers, the world's largest telecom tower company. Before that, he has held significant positions at Future Axiom Telecom and Glaxo Smithkline, Tata Teleservices said in a statement.

Srivastava had spent the last decade in senior roles across finance in consumer goods and telecom businesses in India, the US, the UK and South Asia.

''I'm excited to be a part of Tata Teleservices that has established itself as a trusted and one of the most relied upon innovative telecom brand in the country and is rapidly scaling its businesses across the markets. These are exciting times for the telecom industry and Tata Teleservices is at the heart of this evolution,'' Srivastava said.

''I look forward to working closely with the management team to capitalise on the company's impending growth opportunities,'' he added.

TTL has presence across India's 19 telecom circles and operates in more than 450,000 towns and villages across the country.

It offers integrated telecom solutions to its customers under the unified brand name Tata Docomo and operates its wireless networks on GSM, CDMA and 3G technology platforms.