Sudhir Agarwal CEO of Essel’s WWIL

Sudhir Agarwal takes charge of Wire and Wireless India (WWIL), an Essel Group company

Wire and Wireless India, the multisystem operator (MSO) of the Essel Group, has announced the appointment of Sudhir Agarwal as chief executive officer. Agarwal will be based in Mumbai. He takes over from Deepak Chandnani, who has resigned from the company.

Earlier, Agarwal was president, India and SAARC, Haier Telecom. With experience of more than 18 years in commercial and marketing management, he has worked with telecommunications, consumer electronics and office automation companies such as Motorola, Bharti Televentures, Xerox Modicorp and Philips.

He is a postgraduate in business administration from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, and has also attended the Advanced Management Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

In an official statement, Subhash Chandra, chairperson, Essel Group, says, “Sudhir Agarwal's leadership skills and consumer orientation will build on the lead that WWIL has already created in the industry and further boost the growth plans of the company, while ensuring high standards of service excellence and satisfaction for customers, channel partners and other stakeholders.”

“I am proud to be a part of the Essel Group, which I know to be among the most innovative in the country,” says Agarwal to afaqs! “I look forward to working with the team at WWIL to provide innovative solutions to our customers in the convergence space.”

For the record, WWIL has seven regional offices and is present in 45 cities in India. It operates 73 analogue and seven digital head-ends through a network of more than 4,000 franchisees. The company has a subscriber base of 6.7 million and is one of the biggest MSOs in India's cable television industry.

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