levi strauss co has promoted sanjeev mohanty who has been heading the denim brand also known as levis in india and south asiamiddle east and africa to head its commercial operations in its largest markets the us and canada mohanty will be the first indian executive in the fashion industry to bag this global role joining a growing number of indians in tech and consumer sectors who are leading the operations globally during his tenure with the company sanjeev has proven himself to be a dynamic and growthminded leader he has strengthened our business and our teams in south asia where some of our most important markets are located to deliver industryleading results said seth ellison chief commercial officer levi strauss co advt mohanty will be reporting to ellison and will relocate to the us for his new role it is not clear who will replace him i feel deeply humbled and privileged to be given this opportunity to lead the largest market for the company it will be an honour to work alongside a very talented us and canada team and to embark on this next phase of my career with the company said mohanty nearly half of the companys business comes from the us and canada levis reported net revenue of 45 billion for 2020 mohanty who hails from odisha joined levis first in 1999 as a product manager he is credited with benetton groups turnaround in india where he was managing director of its south asia operations before joining levis in his latest stint in 2016 as its managing director he also headed online fashion platform jabong and was involved in its sale to flipkartin his latest stint mohanty has also been given responsibility for other markets of the san franciscoheadquartered firm over the past few years levis is present in more than 110 countries worldwide through a combination of chain retailers department stores and online sites and it has a global footprint of about 3000 branddedicated stores and shopinshops by digbijay mishra ettech published on oct 26 2021 at 0829 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app apparel levi strauss sanjeev mohanty commercial operations fashion revenue retailers flipkart homenewssanjeev mohanty is levis head of us canada operations