Ericsson has appointed Amitabh Ray as managing director (MD) of Ericsson India Global Services. Prior to his new role, he was acting as head of strategy and portfolio within Business Unit Global Services. Ray will continue to be a member of the Unit?s leadership team in his new role.

Amitabh Ray joined Ericsson India Global Services in 2010 as vice president and head of consulting and systems integration, application development and maintenance and project management office based in Kolkata. In the past, he has held senior positions at IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Ericsson India Global Services is part of Ericsson?s global delivery network which includes four global service centers in India, Romania and China. Ericsson India Global Services is spread across five locations in India ? Noida, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata ? and provides vendor and technology-agnostic support to telecom operators across the world.