Navneet Sharma

Navneet Sharma is a seasoned business leader with over two decades of experience in scaling consumer businesses, driving digital transformation, and delivering profitable growth across telecommunications, internet services, and edtech. Currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer at ACT Fibernet, he leads enterprise value creation through new product incubation, large-scale digital transformation initiatives, and operational excellence across go-to-market functions. He is also spearheading the expansion of ACT's home broadband business into new markets while driving sustainable growth and profitability across its Video and Cable businesses.
Prior to ACT Fibernet, Navneet served as Chief Business Officer at Unacademy, where he led the Government Exams business unit, significantly improving business efficiency by reducing burn by nearly 80%, launching new growth categories, and building new digital distribution channels. He also played a key role in establishing Unacademy’s first offline centre.
Before that, Navneet spent over seven years at Bharti Airtel, including serving as CEO – Gujarat, where he owned the P&L and led revenue growth, network expansion, sales, and marketing operations across multiple business segments. Under his leadership, Airtel achieved approximately a 5% increase in revenue market share, expanded network footprint by 10%, and accelerated growth across prepaid, postpaid, broadband, and enterprise businesses.
Known for his ability to create scalable frameworks, build new business models, develop high-impact distribution channels, and execute with discipline, Navneet has consistently delivered market share gains and bottom-line improvements by combining strategic thinking with execution excellence.