Surendran Chemmenkotil, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Airtel Networks Ltd., Nigeria will join as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Metropolis Healthcare Limited on 2nd January, 2023. 

He is a seasoned leader with 34 years of rich and diverse experience across geographies and consumer facing companies such as Xerox India Limited and Bharti Airtel Limited.

Chemmenkotil began his career as a Customer Engineer at Xerox India Limited and was elevated to the rank of the Head of Outsource and Customer Satisfaction at national level. He then joined Bharti Airtel Limited in 2003 and worked across several verticals and in different roles across the country. He was the CEO for Airtel Northeast & Assam Circle and then moved in as CEO for Karnataka circle, which is Airtel’s flagship market, heading Mobile, Broadband and Enterprise lines of business between 2013-2015.

With this stellar and consistent performance in various roles across geographies within India, Chemmenkotil was selected as the Managing Director & CEO for Airtel Networks, Nigeria which is the biggest market for Airtel Africa.

“In line with the strategy to build Metropolis as a strong consumer healthcare brand, we are delighted to onboard the new CEO Surendran Chemmenkotil. With over three and a half decades of experience, he will be instrumental in helping us cement our leadership position across our core markets and increase our market share & brand positioning across geographies for Metropolis. The board and I warmly welcome Surendran as the CEO and part of the leadership team of Metropolis and wish him good luck in partnering with me to drive the Metropolis 3.0 strategy,” said Ameera Shah, Managing Director, Metropolis Healthcare Limited.