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HFCL accelerates international business, strengthens its top management team with three new leaders

7 Jan 2022 , 03:23 PM

HFCL Limited (HFCL) announced that the company is poised for scaling its international business. HFCL’s strategy is to enter new products, new geographies and to reach new customers and hence, to strengthen the Company’s leadership team, HFCL welcomes three industry veterans.

Mahendra Nahata, Managing Director, HFCL said, “Having made a mark on the Indian telecom sector, HFCL aims to expand its leadership into new geographies, new markets, and new products. The 5G and EPC sector offer plethora of possibilities and opportunities for an organization like ours, and we aim to make the most of it. I’m delighted to welcome onboard the three industry veterans, who will bring us further closer towards our goal to attain a manifold growth in our international business, and HFCL become a partner of choice for marquee clients in India and abroad.”

HFCL in its wholly-owned subsidiary in the Netherlands has onboarded Andrew Westerman as the Vice President of International Sales, Communication Products to lead the sales and business development for the communication products in global markets.

Andrew Westerman, joins HFCL as the Vice President – International Sales, Communication Products. Andrew has more than three decades of experience in pre-sales, business development, transmission and networking. Prior to joining HFCL, Andrew was the Head of Sales, EMEA Region, Mimosa by Airspan where he was responsible for managing and growing direct sales through service providers along with indirect sales. Having held several leadership positions in renowned organizations like Ceragon Networks, Ericsson and ICO Global Communications, Andrew will focus on sales and business development for HFCL’s entire range of Communication Products in the international market. His appointment will further strengthen the global leadership team of HFCL.

Also, the company has on boarded Rajesh Jain as the Executive President of the EPC Projects Business.

Rajesh Jain, has joined as the Executive President – Telecom EPC Projects Business. His appointment will help HFCL grow its EPC projects business in both the national and international markets. An MBA, Rajesh has over 26 years of experience in varied business sectors, such as Telecom & Power, EPC and O&M Projects. He has held senior business and cross functional leadership positions in his career and built strong relationships with key stakeholders in Government, PSUs and corporate sector. Prior to joining HFCL, Rajesh was associated with A22 Infra Engineering Limited, as CEO & Whole Time Director and has previously worked with Teracom Limited, Surana Telecom, MPI Group and Vindhya Telelinks Limited.

Further, the company onboarded Santanu Bhattacharyya as the Vice President and Head of FPGA Engineering to strengthen its R&D capability.

Santanu Bhattacharyya has joined as the Vice President – Head of FPGA Engineering. His appointment will help HFCL address the tremendous opportunities in the SG space and to build HFCL’s products for the global telecom markets. An industry expert in R&D with over three decades of experience, Santanu is an M.Tech. in Communications Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Initially having worked as a research engineer with CDOT, he has worked with organizations like Transwitch, Solarflare, and most recently with Xilinx, where his role was of the Design Engineering Director. His primary responsibility was leading the Smart NIC development
in Xilinx working in collaboration with the global teams at Xilinx.

At around 3.21 pm, HFCL was trading at Rs86.40 per piece down by 0.5% on Sensex. 

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