Nokia on 24 June 2016 announced the appointment of Sanjay Malik as the head of Indian market. The appointment of Malik will be effective from 1 August 2016.
•    Malik will lead customer operations, drive the business growth strategy and superior customer engagement services for the India market. He will be based in Gurgaon.
•    Malik will take over from Sandeep Girotra, who has been heading Indian market since 2011.
•    At present, Malik serves as the Head of Network Implementation (NI) at Nokia Global Services.
•    He is credited with efficiently driving growth and delivering strong performance both in terms of revenue and operational efficiency.
•    He had joined Nokia in 2000.
•    Previously, he was heading Bharti GCBT, where he led the transformation of the business.
•    Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology company.
•    It was founded in 1865.
•    It is headquartered in Espoo, Uusimaa.
•    It is a public limited-liability company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange.
•    According to the Fortune Global 500, it is the world's 274th-largest company measured by 2013 revenues.
•    The company entered into a pact with Microsoft in 2011 to exclusively use its Windows Phone platform on future smartphones.
•    Its mobile phone business was bought by Microsoft in an overall deal totaling 7.17 billion US dollars.