RCOM starts hiring top brass before RIL entry
Date: 23-Jun-2010
MUMBAI: The country’s second-largest telecom company by subscribers, Reliance Communications (RCOM), has hired over half a dozen senior employees to cater to its wireless business. RCOM has not just poached from other telcos to fortify its management structure, it has also recruited senior executives just before elder brother Mukesh Ambani’s telecom venture gets into the hiring mode.
Reliance Industries’ Rs 4,800-crore Infotel buy has created a buzz in the telecom industry, with mid- to senior-level management cadre from various telecom companies expecting a call from head hunters. In a bid to put a more efficient team in place to run its CDMA and GSM platforms, and to provide the edge to its 3G services which will be rolled out soon, RCOM has picked up some key people from the industry.
Sitapathy Chavali, earlier with Vodafone Essar, has joined as Wireless CTO. An expert in 3G and BWA, Chavali was earlier with Idea Cellular and with Lucent Technologies (US). Ex-Bharti Airtel executive Nagesh Rajanna has taken up the post of national sales and distribution head. Prior to joining RCOM, Rajanna was with Future Generali. Both have joined RCOM this month.
Earlier in April, Anuraj Prashar was poached from Airtel, where he was national head of the fraud prevention unit, while Naresh Gupta moved from Vodafone Essar at the start of the year, where he was director till November 2009.
As Reliance Communications begins the journey towards 200 million customers, the company is adopting a multi-pronged strategy.
Posted By : Neha Chaturvedi
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