BWI: Cisco Appoints New Sales Head for its Service Provider (SP) Business in India and SAARC Region

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Source: Cisco
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 06:46 PM IST (01:16 PM GMT)
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Cisco Appoints New Sales Head for its Service Provider (SP) Business in India and SAARC Region


New Delhi, Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- *Cisco today announced that Sanjay Rohatgi, an ICT industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, has been appointed as Senior Vice President Sales and the leader for Cisco's Service Provider business across the India & SAARC region. In this role, Sanjay will lead the telecom vertical business for Cisco, driving the overall growth strategy and sales operations for this high priority sector.

Sanjay will focus on IP-NGN (Internet Protocol - Next Generation Networks), mobility solutions, adoption and on driving traction for Cisco's data center & cloud computing platform, collaboration solutions, video technologies for customers in this vertical. His mandate also includes the partner and go-to-market models to help Cisco's key customers in the vertical create and take to market, unique and differentiated value added services, based on Cisco technology.

Commenting on Sanjay's appointment, *Naresh Wadhwa, President and Country Manager,** Cisco India & SAARC* said, "We are delighted to have Sanjay lead Cisco India's Service Provider team. Sanjay has a proven track record of managing the Service Provider business for the Cisco Asia region where he, along with his team, was successful in driving sales, business development and business partnerships with service providers for their technology needs. Under his leadership we are in an even stronger position to deliver on our objective of becoming a trusted technology advisor for the Service Providers in India, enabling them to transform to experience providers and drive greater profitability. We wish Sanjay success in his new role."

*Jeff White, President Service Provider and Enterprise Business, Asia Pacific, Cisco,* added, "Sanjay brings a wealth of global experience to this very important and strategic role. I am delighted to have Sanjay leading this major growth segment for Cisco India & SAARC, and I am confident that with his collaborative leadership style Service Provider segment will enjoy healthy growth in all segments of the SP business. I remain extremely bullish that under his leadership we will continue to add tremendous value to our customers and partners as they transform their business to drive profitable growth."

Sanjay has been with Cisco in a variety of leadership roles over the last seven years and most recently, he was the Country Manager/GM Sales for Cisco Systems Indonesian Operations. Under his leadership, Indonesia became the 3rd fastest growth country in APAC and was also awarded 'Wireline Vendor of the Year - 2010' by Frost and Sullivan. Before his stint in Indonesia, Sanjay was responsible for SP business for Asia region within Cisco.

Sanjay's expertise pans across international sales and business development, product marketing and management and R&D roles, with leading MNC's.

Prior to Cisco, Sanjay was with Nortel as Director Business Development for Optical Ethernet for the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this Sanjay has worked with Telstra in Sydney and British Telecom in the UK.

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