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Dutt has 23 years of experience in the field of business development and marketing
Sunil Dutt has joined Samsung as India head for its mobile business. Dutt will be responsible for the sales and marketing functions for both the GSM and CDMA mobile business. He moves in from Nokia, where he was sales director.
HB Lee, president and chief executive officer, Samsung, Southwest Asia headquarters, says, “We expect to fully leverage the huge potential of the telecom market in India with Dutt’s expertise and rich knowledge of the Indian market.”
Dutt has experience of 23 years in the field of business development and marketing. A management postgraduate, he started his career with Philips in 1984 as a management trainee. After spending eight years with the company, he left as product marketing manager for special products. In 1993, Dutt joined Wipro’s new lighting business as branch manager for the North (Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh) and set up the business from scratch.
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Samsung Electronics is a leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with parent company sales of US$63.4 billion and net income of US$8.5 billion in 2006. The company consists of five main business units: digital media business, LCD business, semiconductor business, telecommunication network business and digital appliance business. Samsung Electronics is a producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs.