Vodafone Idea (Vi) Friday named Poonam Bhat as its Consumer Digital Delivery Lead.
Prior to joining Vi, Bhat was the Lead IT Manager driving digital initiatives for distributive trade markets in Hindustan Unilever Limited, the telco said in a statement on social networking site Linkedin.
“Poonam has joined Vodafone Idea Limited as Executive Vice President (EVP) – Digital. She is a seasoned professional with deep expertise in Digital Strategy and Transformation, Product Management, Technology Solutions, and Delivery of Global IT Programmes,” it said.
ETTelecom previously reported that former Reliance Communications (RCom) group chief technology officer (CTO) Gulshan Khurana is likely to replace Mudit Agarwal, executive vice president – Technology Strategy who quit Vodafone Idea Limited.
A seasoned executive, Khurana brings with him nearly a three-decade-long experience in the telecom industry and started his career as an engineer with the state-run Center for Development of Telematics (C-DoT).
Joined the telco in November 2016 as senior vice president – Technology Planning, Agarwal was elevated to the rank of executive vice president – Technology Strategy & Planning and was driving edge cloud platform and next-generation planning.
The third-largest Indian telco has been on a hiring spree and recently appointed Sheena Joseph as the vice president of customer service of enterprise business to further strengthen its enterprise focus in the country.
Vodafone Idea names Sheena Joseph as VP of customer service for enterprise business
Joseph’s appointment came shortly after Vi appointed Alok Srivastava to lead the enterprise business for North and East circles.
Recently, Shabnam Syed joined as Executive Vice President of postpaid marketing.
Vi also appointed Reema Jain as the Chief Digital Officer while Tanuja Rai Pradhan joined as Head- Consumer Insights.
The telco also appointed Sanjay Jolly as Executive Vice President (EVP) – Technology, Hub Operations last month.
The Mumbai-based telco’s quarterly revenue slid to Rs 9,607.6 crore(US$108.97million) from Rs 10,894.1 crore in the October-December period, while its consolidated annual income fell by nearly 8 per cent to Rs 42,126.4 crore from Rs 45,996.8 crore a year ago, according to Q4 results.
