Vodafone appoints Sunil Sood as India CEO

Pieters, the longest serving CEO of a telecom firm in the country, will step down from April 1.

By: ENS Economic Bureau
Mumbai | January 23, 2015 03:16 AM IST

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Vodafone has appointed Sunil Sood as the CEO for its India operations to replace Martin Pieters who has been its chief executive since 2009.

Pieters, the longest serving CEO of a telecom firm in the country, will step down from April 1 and will be succeeded by Sood, presently COO of the company. Pieters took over from Asim Ghosh as Vodafone-Essar CEO.

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“Marten has been a fantastic leader in India and a wise and trusted contributor across the Group as a whole. I look forward to working with Sunil to build on the successes of a business widely admired in India and internationally,” UK-based Vodafone Group’s chief executive Vittorio Colao said in a statement.

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