Samsung Mobile’s marketing chief leaves
Samsung Mobile’s UK and Ireland marketing director has left the company after just three months in the role.
Batyr Bulat is leaving Samsung for “personal reasons” and the mobile manufacturer is now searching for a replacement. It is not yet known whether he has a job to go to.
Bulat joined from Unilever as marketing director in November and reported to Samsung Mobile’s UK managing director Simon Stanford. He was handed responsibility for driving the company’s “smartphone for everyone” strategy.
Bulat was category marketing director at Unilever. He also spent nearly ten years at Reckitt Benckiser in a variety of European marketing roles.
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