Former Managing Director of BlackBerry Sunil Dutt has joined Reliance Jio as President.

Dutt is an industry veteran with 27 years of extensive experience in the Indian mobile technology and telecom sector.

He had quit BlackBerry India last year at a time when the handset maker was in the process of rolling out its flagship product under the new Blackberry 10 series.

When contacted Dutt confirmed that he has joined the Mukesh Ambani-promoted company on Monday.

Dutt has earlier worked for Hewlett Packard India Sales Pte Ltd as President, Personal Systems Group, and was responsible for expanding the company’s business in the enterprise, mid-market and consumer space.

Prior to that, he worked in senior positions for companies like Samsung India Electronics Ltd, Nokia India Pte Ltd, Whirlpool of India Ltd, Wipro Ltd and Philips India.

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