Mumbai: Partha Sarkar has joined Hinduja TMT (www.hindujatmt.com) as their chief operating officer for IT-enabled services. As the COO, Sarkar will be responsible for leading the ITES team.

He has to his credit over 15 years of experience in customer service and operations in diverse industries like banking and financial services, healthcare and insurance and brings in an in-depth knowledge and expertise to HTMT''s senior management team.

"With Sarkar''s experience in outsourcing projects in diverse domain areas, and in servicing clients internationally, we will gain further momentum in the ITES sector," says R Mohan, president and CEO, HTMT.

Sarkar was previously the general manager with Deloitte Consulting for their Hyderabad facility, which provides both business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO) support for Deloitte''s world-wide clients, wherein he was responsible for setting up and running various complex outsourcing projects pertaining to finance, accounting, research and content management.

He has also been with GE Capital International Services as vice-president and service delivery leader where he was functional in managing businesses as diverse as autoleasing, private label credit cards, medical systems, electronic appliance helpline and catalogue sales. Prior to this Sarkar spent nine years with Bank of America in branch customer service and operations.

Sarkar holds a post-graduate diploma in management from IIM Bangalore and a master''s degree in technology from IIT Chennai.

HTMT is one of India''s leading IT companies, spearheading the Hinduja group''s efforts in the areas of technology, media and telecommunications. The technology division of HTMT focuses on BPO, contact centre and IT services and has its offices based in Bangalore and Mumbai with marketing offices in the US, the UK and France. With a team of over 1,500 IT professionals, HTMT has world-class infrastructure in line with global standards of environment, resources and deliverables.