Indians replace Chinese as top executives in Huawei India

Indians replace Chinese as top executives in Huawei India
Bangalore: The $23 billion Chinese major, Huawei Technologies has brought in Indian executives as business heads in all the businesses of its Indian subsidiary Huawei Telecommunications India (HTPL). While earlier business heads of HTPL were Chinese nationals, the company has now brought in four Executive Directors, reports Hindustan Times. Avijit Chaliha has been appointed as Director for sales, A.Sethuraman for product and solution systems, DS Rawat for sales (Bharti account) and Saravjit Garg for technical sales. These officials will report directly to the CEO, Max Yang. Also joining the top India team are Akash Mathur as Head of human resources and Sandeep Gulati as Head of finance. "HTPL currently has over 80 percent Indian staff in its operations which was around half five years ago," said Yang. "Key management positions in Huawei India have also been suitably staffed with highly experienced senior India executives." HTPL has an employee base of 2,000 out of which around 1,600 are Indians. In its subsidiary, the Bengaluru-based Huawei Technologies India, it employs 2,000 people, out of which 95 percent are Indians. Its global employee strength stands at 87,500. Huawei is localizing its management in India as it has had a 100 percent growth in the past three years. Last year, its India revenues stood at $1.3 billion (around 6,400 crore), which it proposes to double again this year. With this, it would contribute over 10 percent to Huawei's global sales.