ABP Network has onboarded Sumanta Datta as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This development comes five months after Avinash Pandey parted ways with the network.
Before joining the network, he was Managing Director (MD) at Oxford University Press India from September 2021 till his move.
Earlier, he was an independent Advisor and Operating Partner for over a year. Prior to this, he served as MD and Cluster Head at Logitech from October 2017 to February 2020.
Previously, he was associated with The Coca-Cola Company for over two decades. He joined the company in September 1994 as Area Operations Manager- Central India, Delhi, and Mumbai. After this, he was promoted to National Market Development Manager- India in January 1997. Following this, he was Senior Brand Manager- Colas and Water- India from June 1998 to September 2000.
Subsequently, he was elevated to Brand Director- Coca-Cola in October 2000. Later, for over three years he was Region Operations Director. From July 2006 to January 2008 he was Vice President (VP) Operations- North and East India.
Afterwards, Datta was named VP- Global Projects- Eurasia and Africa Group in January 2008. Thereafter, he was promoted to VP- Customer and Commercial Leadership- India and South West Asia in June 2009. Finally, he served as VP Operations- India and South West Asia from June 2013 to September 2017.
