Sumit Mukhija
Executive Director and CEO, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India)Sumit Mukhija is the Executive Director and CEO of STT Global Data Centres India (STT GDC India). Under his leadership, the company has emerged as a market leader in the Datacenter space and a leading player in India's Digital Infrastructure ecosystem.
Sumit has been at the forefront of innovation in the Information Technology and Digital Infrastructure space in the region for more than three decades and held leadership positions in organizations like Tata Communications, Cisco Systems and Microsoft.
Sumit currently holds the Chairmanship of the Indian Green Building Council's Green Data Centre certification system and also a Member of the Confederation of Indian Industries National Committee for IT/ITES. He features regularly in various Industry forums focused on Data Centres, Cloud, AI and sustainability. Sumit was honoured as the CEO of the Year by ET Now (2018), received the prestigious Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam BEA award (2022), and recognized by Economic Times as Asia's Most Promising Business Leader (2019)
Sumit is a certified data centre professional himself and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Business Management from XLRI, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications He also holds a Non-Executive Director Diploma from Financial Times.