Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson’s India head Paolo Colella is moving to a new role as head of digital services for Europe and Latin America, while Nunzio Mirtillo will lead the operations in India along with a number of other countries under his charge.
The change in leadership is in line with the recently announced organisational structure by the company at the global level to help drive execution of its strategy. The development follows a 10 percent year-on-year decline in Ericsson India’s revenues in the first quarter of 2017, impacted by consolidations and tariff competition between operators.
Mirtillo, who had taken the new assignment as head of the Market Area South East Asia, Oceania and India in April, will now drive Ericsson’s business in India, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines and Bangladesh.
Ericsson had earlier this year reorganised its business structure to five market areas from 10 regions and to three business areas from four business units with the objective of increasing efficiency, speeding up time to market as well as enhancing customer responsiveness.
Mirtillo takes charge at a time when the telecom market is in the midst of a huge price competition which has led to rapid consolidation, hurting revenue of equipment makers. Companies such as Ericsson are, however, hoping to gain as telcos expand their 4G network and deepen 3G coverage amid a huge data boom.
In line with its new organisational structure, Ericsson has given global assignments to two of its Indian executives.Nitin Bansal, head of network solutions for Region India, has now been appointed as head of network solutions for the new market area.
Krishna Patil, who was earlier handling accounts for western India for Region India, has been appointed as head of Global Customer Unit Bharti and the company’s customers in Bhutan and Nepal.
Amarjeet Singh, who was earlier handling Vodafone customer unit at Ericsson India, has now assumed the role of customer unit head of West India accounts. Jay Sood, who was earlier head of network managed services based in the United Kingdom, has been given charge of Customer Unit Service Providers India.
Jose Luis Serrato, who was handling managed services business for Region India, has got the global role of head of managed services. Igor Maurell has been appointed as head of network operations. He was earlier handling this operation for Southeast Asia and Oceania. Further, Alvise Carlon has been appointed as head of digital services. He was earlier handling digital services for Region Southeast Asia and Oceania.
By Baishakhi Dutta
