Acer India elevates Sudhir Goel as the Chief Business Officer

In a recent development, Acer India, the global PC brand, has elevated Sudhir Goel as their Chief Business Officer.

About Sudhir Goel

Sudhir has been associated with Acer India since 1999. He has handled various leadership roles spanning product engineering, manufacturing, support, supply chain. Recently he was the head of the commercial business group. He was instrumental in establishing Acer India’s manufacturing facility at Pondicherry. He later took on the portfolio of Chief Supply Chain Officer. Here, he handled complete supply chain - operations, procurement, material planning and manufacturing functions.

Also, he assisted Sales and Marketing in strategic calls on all large deals. Before this role, he was responsible for Acer India’s commercial business group handling PnL, product strategy, alliance relationships. He also established a leadership position in multiple categories. He was also in charge of the company’s product solution development in Asia Pacific countries.

Before joining Acer India, Sudhir started his career in 1985 with DCM Data Products as a Design Engineer. He later joined Compaq as National Tech Support Manager for two years. He has done his engineering degree from BITS Pilani and did his MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University. Also, he is fond of reading both fiction and non-fiction and loves to watch movies in his spare time.

About his new role at Acer

Harish Kohli, President, and Managing Director, Acer India said:

Under the leadership of Sudhir Goel, Acer India has successfully excelled in an intensely competitive environment and gained substantial impetus in Indian commercial PC market. Sudhir brings in excellent prerequisites to navigate Acer India in a challenging business situation and we are confident that his strategic thinking, experience, and ability to drive people will navigate the organization to even greater success in the future.

Commenting on appointment as Chief Business Officer of the company, Mr Sudhir Goel said:

I am honoured to be appointed Chief Business Officer and excited to lead Acer's Commercial and Consumer business with support from our executive leadership team, as our company shapes the future of our industry. And now with the new normal where we are seeing a paradigm shift in consumer behaviour, it is times like these when being effective, innovative and intuitive really makes a difference and I am looking forward to successfully lead both the business groups.

In his new role as Chief Business Officer, Sudhir will be responsible for leading both the commercial and consumer business of the company in India and Bangladesh.