Ashish Chowdhary appointed to lead Customer Operations at Nokia Networks

Ashish Chowdhary has been appointed to lead Customer Operations at Nokia Networks, effective January 1, 2015. Chowdhary will report to Nokia president and CEO, Rajeev Suri, and remain on the Nokia Networks Leadership Team. He will be Chief Business Officer, based in Espoo, Finland.

Chowdhary is currently EVP Asia, Middle East & Africa (AMEA) for Nokia Networks where he has been responsible for all sales and operations in the region representing more than half of the revenue of Nokia Networks’ global business. He will continue to lead AMEA until the end of the year. During his tenure he has delivered consistently strong financial performance and overseen the transformation of the Networks business in the region.

In the past four years, Chowdhary has successfully led Customer Operations in the diverse regions of Asia Pacific, Japan, India, Greater China, and Middle East and Africa, representing over half of the Networks’ global business. Prior to this, Chowdhary headed the Global Services business.

As part of this change, René Svendsen-Tune, executive vice president Europe and Latin America, and Ricky Corker, executive vice president North America, will report to Chowdhary as of January 1, 2015. Svendsen-Tune plans to leave the company at the end of the first quarter 2015 after a smooth transition.