G Ramprasad, has been appointed CEO of Tata Teleservices for the Tamil Nadu Circle. bBefore joining as CEO in Tata Ramprasad was CEO Zee South where he saw through the launch of Zee Tamil, a Tamil GEC, in October 2008.
Speaking about the appointment, Ramprasad, said, “I did not have any specific reason to quit Zee. I desired to experiment in diversified sectors, and telecom is one of them. I looking forward to consolidate the Tata Teleservices position in Tamil Nadu.”
Prior to joining Zee, Ramprasad was with the Murugappa Group as CEO of the Parryware business, followed by president of TI Cycles of the same group, where he was instrumental in effecting a turnaround of TI Cycles after taking charge in April 2005.
Prior to the successful stint of nearly nine years with the Murugappa Group, Ramprasad was with Hindustan Lever Ltd (now Hindustan Unilever) in sales and operations functions. He has also been associated with Sara Lee in India.
Ramprasad, who passed out of IIM Calcutta in 1984, attended the Senior Executive Program of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA in 2001.