Srikant M. Datar — Board Member Accountability Profile
Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS); Audit Committee Chair Board Tenure: 2013 – present Committee Memberships: Audit Committee (Chair) Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)
Basis for Inclusion: Srikant M. Datar holds a documented governance role as Audit Committee Chair at T-Mobile US Inc. As Audit Committee Chair, Datar holds primary board-level oversight responsibility for T-Mobile’s financial reporting, internal controls, and independent auditor relationship. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.
Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate governance and political activity.
Biographical Overview
Srikant M. Datar, Ph.D. is Dean of Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2021, and is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration. He joined the HBS faculty in 1996. He is an expert in cost accounting, management control, and accounting information systems. He was previously a faculty member at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
Datar has been on the T-Mobile board since 2013 — a period that spans the company’s rapid growth from fourth-largest to second-largest U.S. carrier. He formerly served on the boards of Stryker, ICF International, and Novartis. His long board tenure at T-Mobile predates the DT-Sprint governance structure and reflects his standing as a genuinely independent academic governance voice.
He holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Bombay, an ACA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and both an MBA and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Board Role and Governance Authority
- Company: T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS)
- Board tenure: 2013 – present
- Committee assignments: Audit Committee (Chair)
- Day job: Dean, Harvard Business School
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Investigative trail pointers (public records)
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| Channel | Starting points |
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| Federal courts | CourtListener / PACER party and attorney searches (spelling variants) |
| Campaign finance | FEC + OpenSecrets for committees and donors tied to documented roles |
| Corporate / LLC | State secretary of state; OpenCorporates for cross-border shells from reporting |
| Sanctions / PEP | OpenSanctions when international business context is already sourced |
| Contracts / grants | USAspending.gov for named entities from investigations |
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Sources
- T-Mobile US Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 18, 2025; SEC EDGAR (CIK 1283699)
