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Telecom

ID: 727773 India

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Expert is Senior Sales & Marketing Professional with expertise in Telecom in India and South West Asia. He is an Entrepreneur of Telecom Distribution start-up and also build an Indian Mobile Handset Brand,"KARBONN". He has over 24 years experience in large MNCs in Telecom and Consumer Electronics and Home Appliances. He is a qualified trainer and consultant to various companies and visiting faculty in business schools.

Expert has worked in US MNCs like Motorola and Pepsi, European MNC Philips, Korean MNC LG Electronics, Chinese MNCs like ZTE Corp, Haier Telecom and Konka Electronics. Expert has also worked in large Indian MNCs like TATA Group and Asian Paints. Expert was Head of Sales & Strategy in Motorola for India and SW Asia. He worked in a similar position in Philips India also and managed their wireless business.

Expert's strength areas are (1) start up - He worked in companies like Pepsi, LG Electronics.Konka Electronics and TACO Mobiapps when they just started and build the organisation/brand from Zero He also launched a Mobile brand KARBONN in India and its doing over 300K handsets per month. (2) Turn around - He took Charge of Philips CTV Philips CTV market share was Just 2.8% and was declining for the last 5 years. The market share as per ORG was stands at 7.4 % in July 03. In Motoroal too Expert joined at a time when the Brand was at 4th position and about to slip to 5th position with a market share of 1.79% in September 2005. In just 5 quarters the market share jumped to 15% in December 06. The Turnover grew from 300 crore in 2005 to over INR 2700 crore in 2006. Motorola became the fastest growing Brand in the Fastest Growing Industry in the fastest growing economy

Expert has cross industry experience in Telecom, Telematics, Consumer Electronics, Home Appliances, Foods & Beverages and other durables like Paints.

He has worked extensively in India, Nepal, Srilanka and Bangladesh. Build distribution in these countries for various brands.

Besides core function of Sales, Marketing and distribution, Expert is a qualified Trainer in Professional Selling Skills. He is also a visiting faculty in business schools and provided consultancy to many start-ups.

Expert is a MBA and has a masters degree in economics.

Expert is a Consultant to M/s Perfect Enterprises, a company engaged in the Retailing of branded apparales. Currently the compnay is a franchisee of Reebok India. Expert is driving all the investment plans of this company and working on expanding the Retail Foot printArshit is a Consultant to Smart Mart, a company engaged in Retailing a in Delhi region of India. The company has 20 stores of brands like Titan Watches, Wrangler, Lee, LG and SamsungArshit is a consultant to M/s Gupta Enterprises, a company engaged in the distribution of Unileaver products in India.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1996 Degree: MBA Subject: Sales, Marketing & Channel Management Institution: IGNOU
Year: 1986 Degree: Masters Subject: Economics Institution: Punjab Ubiversity

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2009 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Director & Founder Department: Management
Responsibilities:
Expert is founder of this company
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2008 to 2009 Employer: Jaina Marketing Appliances Limited Title: Executive Director Department: Management
Responsibilities:
Expert got new business and launched KARBONN brand
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2008 to 2008 Employer: Haier Telecom Title: Vice President Sales- India & SW Asia Department: Sales
Responsibilities:
Launched mobile handset in these markets
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2005 to 2008 Employer: Motorola India Private Limited Title: Head Sales & Strategy for India & SW Asia Department: Sales & Strategy
Responsibilities:
Expert was responcible for Slaes and market share of the brand
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2005 to 2005 Employer: TACO Mobiapps Title: Vice President - Sales & Customer Support Department: Sales and Custome Support
Responsibilities:
Managed the Telematics division of this TATA group company
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2003 to 2005 Employer: Philips India Limited Title: Head Wireless Business Group for Indian Subcontinent Department: Sales & General management
Responsibilities:
Managed the Mobile Handset Business of Philips
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2000 to 2003 Employer: Philips India Limited Title: National Sales Manager for Color TV Department: Sales
Responsibilities:
Expert managed the Sales of CTVs in India
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1997 to 1999 Employer: LG Electronics Title: Branch Manager Department: Sales
Responsibilities:
Expert launched the LG barnd in India

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Expert has expertise in regulatory matters of new company setup or new brand launch

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