Airtel names Sarang Kanade as Customer Experience Director for India & South Asia

NEW DELHI: India’s top telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has named Sarang Kanade as Director - Customer Experience, India & South Asia. He will report to Gopal Vittal, CEO - India & South Asia.

Presently, he is CEO of Delhi Circle, and takes over from Raghunath Mandava, who has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Airtel Africa.

Kanade joined Airtel in March 2010, and  served as CEO of Market Operations for Punjab, Haryana,  Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.

"Engineering Graduate (1992 batch) from Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai and has completed his MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (1996 batch).and has held senior positions such as COO and CEO in the Upper North Hub (Punjab, Haryana, HP and J&K)," the company informed BSE Ltd. (Bombay Stock Exchange).

Before joining Airtel, Kanade served as the Vice President of Operation at Spencers Retail Ltd. Kanade has 15 years of experience.

"Prior to joining Airtel, Sarang has worked with Spencers Retail as VP, and with Marico in various sales roles ," the company said.