Sunil Sood is new Hutch Gujarat circle head

In the latest round of reshuffle in the Hutch top brass, Sunil Sood, who was the chief executive officer of Hutch Chennai circle, will take over as the Operations Director for Gujarat and Rajasthan circles.

He will replace Hutch Gujarat chief executive officer, Sanjoy Mukerji, who has been named the Operations Director for the Punjab, Haryana and Delhi circles.

It is a sort of come back for Sood. He was the chief operating officer of the Gujarat circle before Mukerji took over.

Hutch grew rapidly and crossed the one million subscriber mark in Gujarat under Mukerji.

Mukerji attributed the spurt in customer base of Hutch Gujarat circle in the past few years to the vavlue 'brand Hutch' and said that he took over as head of Gujarat circle whenthe cellular subscriber market was 'in an exploding mode'.

"The Hutch brand, a very committed and passionate workforce and the fact that the cellular market was exploding when I took over two and a half years ago, are the major reasons why Hutch has emerged as the strongest brand in cellular telephony in the state," Mukerji said on Sunday.

In the past two and a half years, the Hutch subscriber base in Gujarat has increased almost four fold from three lakh to over 11 lakh today.