# Bernardus Verwaayen

> Bernardus Verwaayen is a startup investor at Airtel. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Airtel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bharti-airtel-ltd)
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Bernardus Verwaayen is a startup investor at Airtel. Bernardus (Ben) Verwaayen joined Akamai as a director in November 2013. Having held numerous executive positions at leading telecommunications and technology providers over a span of more than three decades, Verwaayen has served as CEO of BT; international vice president, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Lucent Technologies;and as president and general manager of PTT Telecom, a KPN subsidiary in the Netherlands. Verwaayen was most recently CEO of Alcatel-Lucent from 2008 to 2013.He has served on the Boards of NED Sport 7 (Netherlands TV sports channel); NED Astro (Cable TV); Unisource (European telecom cooperation between Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Swisscom and KPN); Endemol (TV content); NED UPS (packages delivery); NED AKZO Nobel (Paint and Chemicals); The World Economic Forum; and as an Advisory Council Member for ING (banking).He is Chairman of the CBI Energy and Climate Change Board in the UK. Verwaayen has been made an officer of the Orange Order-Nassau and an Honorary Knight of the British Empire (KBE). He is a recipient of the Chevalier de la Légion d 'Honneur medal.He graduated with a master's degree in law and international politics from the State University of Utrecht, Holland.

## About Airtel

VC Fund · New Delhi, India

Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa, and the Channel Islands. Airtel has a GSM network in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the countryof operation.Airtel is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. It offers its telecom services under the "airtel" brand, and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold certification. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore.

5 contacts available at Airtel.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adarsh Nair | Chief Product and Experience Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adarsh-nair-6260 |
| Bernardus Verwaayen | Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernardus-verwaayen |
| Rakesh Mittal | Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rakesh-bharti-mittal |
| V Viswanathan | Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/v-viswanathan |
| Ajay Chitkara | Director & CEO - Airtel Business | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-chitkara-66c3 |

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