Sanjay Sharma joins Huawei Telecommunications

face="Times New Roman, serif">Sanjay Sharma, ex Samsung and ACME Telepower, has joined Huawei Telecommunications India as Head of Applications and Software (A&S) division. In his new role Sharma will be responsible for sales and marketing functions of consumer—VAS, Enterprise Business, BSS and professional services business in India and Nepal. While talking about his assignment, Sharma said, "The Huawei business is going through an exciting growth phase, where the company is looking at significantly enhancing its presence in India within the telecom and enterprise customer's base by enhancing the value prepositions through innovative new business revenue stream solutions. I am happy to be associated with Huawei at this time and look forward to an exciting and rewarding experience here."

face="Times New Roman, serif">Speaking on his current assignment at Huawei, Sharma said, "My focus at Huawei will be to attain and improve our leadership position in A&S solutions for our customers and utilize our world class IP created for Innovative New Business Revenue stream solutions for our customers and help them generate new revenue streams and optimize their operation performance."
Sharma brings with him over 19 years of experience in the telecom and IT industry in global companies like IBM Global Services, Samsung and Multi-Tech. He has spent almost three years with Samsung Electronics, and another nine with IBM Global Services working across the Asia Pacific region. Within IBM, he worked on various assignments in the solutions sales and marketing field, for the Indian and Asia Pacific market with various telecom customers. Prior to IBM, he worked with Multi-Tech Systems, handling their channel sales function.

face="Times New Roman, serif">Sharma holds a bachelors degree in telecommunications (1989), a master of business administration (1991) and is an active member of IEEE and other computer societies. He has undergone professional training in Harvard Business School on strategy, sales and marketing methodologies.