Telecom network vendor Nokia Networks has appointed Ashish Chowdhary as chief business officer to lead customer operations.
Rene Svendsen-Tune, executive vice president Europe and Latin America, and Ricky Corker, executive vice president North America, will report to Chowdhary.
However, Svendsen-Tune plans to leave the company at the end of the first quarter 2015.
Last week, Nokia Networks said its Q3 2014 revenue rose 13 percent to EUR 2.9 billion supported by mobile broadband business, the company’s main focus area.
Based in Espoo, Finland, Chowdhary will report to Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri.
Earlier today, Nokia Networks announced the appointment of Igor Leprince as the lead of Global Services.
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Chowdhary is currently EVP Asia, Middle East & Africa (AMEA) for Nokia Networks and responsible for sales and operations in the region representing more than half of the revenue of Nokia Networks’ global business.
Rajeev Suri, Nokia President and CEO, said: “Given his experience, having led both Customer Operations and Global Services, he is the ideal candidate to develop our worldwide customer facing organization to suit the global market in which we operate.”
In the past four years, Chowdhary has led Customer Operations in regions such as Asia Pacific, Japan, India, Greater China, and Middle East and Africa. Prior to this, Chowdhary headed the Global Services business.
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