Mr. Ranade started his professional carrier with M/s Maharashtra
Electrosmelt Limited, as Dy. Company Secretary where he had served
with distinction for over 7 years. He has also been a visiting faculty
teaching corporate law at the Parle Tilak Vidyalaya's Institute
of Management at Mulund College of Commerce.
Mr. Satish Ranade holds Bachelors degrees in Commerce and Law from the Mumbai University and is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). His overall experience spans over 30 years in various fields.
Mr. Ranade has been through the most momentous stages of TATA
Communications’s history, Heading TATA Communications's
legal and corporate secretarial functions from its inception.
From a fledgling of a highly regulated wholly owned Government of
India undertaking, now to a multi-function private sector telecom
major in competitive market, listed on New York Stock Exchange and
having multiple number of subsidiaries across the continents - he
has seen it all. His contributions in the various stages of the
Company's evolution process have been widely recognised. In this
process he had also had the opportunity to get hands on experience
in various including HRD and Finance. Mr. Ranade also officiated
as Director (Finance) / Chief Financial Officer for some time.
Mr. Ranade has traveled abroad extensively, representing TATA Communications and India in various International telecommunications fora wherein he has forcefully buttressed the interests of TATA Communications and India at various international meets.
Mr. Ranade is presently serving as a Director on the Boards
of TATA Communications’s subsidiaries in the US, UK, Sri Lanka,
Singapore, South Africa, Hong Kong, Bermuda, Portugal, Japan, France,
Spain, Germany among others. Besides, Mr. Ranade chairs the
Board of three trusts formed by TATA Communications for its employees.