JK Dudani, an Engineering graduate from Bangalore University, joined Samtel Group of Companies as an Engineer Trainee in 1987. While pursuing his Careers, he gained an MBA degree, and also did a Certificate course in International marketing from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi. In a professional Careers of over 26 years, he has held important and key positions in different fields such as production, process, quality assurance, sales, marketing and business development functions. In March 1999, he joined Bharti Telecom (Airtel) to head its international marketing division for export of telecom products manufactured and traded by the company. During his tenure in Bharti, he was instrumental in establishing the presence of Bharti's products in over 25 countries (in retail and institution segments) spread across five continents. He was also nominated to CII National Committee on international marketing. In Nov 2005, he rejoined Samtel Group as Head of Business Development in Samtel Engineering Services, which delivers end-to-end Engineering solutions (CAD, CAM & CAE) to overseas clients in Industrial machinery and Auto verticals. In Jan 2007, he was appointed as the CEO of Samtel HAL Display Systems Limited, which is a joint venture company between HAL & Samtel. His endeavour is to make this JV company scale new heights in becoming a globally competitive business entity.
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