Ericsson appoints new Head of Region India
June 26 2015 - 3:00AM
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Effective September 1, 2015, Paolo Colella is
appointed Head of Region India
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Colella is currently Global Head of Ericsson's
Consulting & Systems Integration business
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Colella succeeds Chris Houghton who will assume
the position of Head of Region North East Asia
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today announced the
appointment of Paolo Colella as new Head of Region India. In this
new role, Colella will also take a seat on Ericsson's Global
Leadership Team, reporting to the Chairman of Region India and
Senior Vice President Asia-Pacific, Mats H Olsson. Colella succeeds
Chris Houghton, who will assume the role of Head of Region North
East Asia.
President and CEO Hans Vestberg says: "Chris has
successfully managed Ericsson's operations in India during his two
years in the country and enabled our operations in the region to
grow into the largest employee base for Ericsson in the world.
Paolo takes over from Chris at a time when Ericsson in India is
well poised for growth, and the team in India is fully geared to
leverage the new market opportunities and contribute to the growth
of the Indian telecom sector."
Colella, who assumes his new role on September 1,
2015, has been responsible for Ericsson's Consulting & Systems
Integration business globally for around six years. Prior to this
role, he worked as Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing at
Ericsson United Kingdom (UK), responsible for managing both telco
and non-telco customers in the country. Colella joined Ericsson in
2001 as Vice President of Global Services at Ericsson Italy and has
since held different positions within sales and marketing, services
and key account management. Across his various roles, Colella has
helped customers transform their operations by fully leveraging the
benefits of digital and mobile technologies as well as
innovation.
Speaking of his appointment Colella says: "I look
forward to joining the team in India and continue the work to build
strong partnerships with our customers in what is undoubtedly one
of the most exciting and fast developing markets in the world."
Ericsson's partnership with the Indian telecom
industry started more than 110 years ago, supplying manual
switchboards to the government in 1903. Since then, it has powered
virtually every facet of telecommunications in India. Ericsson
leads in Mobile broadband technologies, Managed Services and
OSS/BSS in India. Ericsson has more than 21,000 resources in India
and offices across 38 locations. The company also has a
well-established manufacturing unit, a Global Services organization
and state of art R&D facilities located in various parts of
India.
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