Airtel marketing head Sanjay Gupta joins Star India as COO
08 Apr 2009
STAR India has roped in Bharti Airtel's chief marketing officer Sanjay Gupta as the chief operating officer.
Gupta comes to STAR from a non-media background. At Bharti Airtel, he was responsible for driving marketing, sales and distribution for the $6 bn mobile business. Prior to Bharti, he played a key marketing role in Hindustan Unilever in various functions such as Oral care and Home care divisions.
He has experience with brands like Close-up, Pepsodent, Wheel, Vim and Domex. He is a Mechanical Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering with a post graduation from IIM Kolkata. Gupta has more than 18 years of experience in key marketing and sales functions.