commercial management
Samit Bhatta, General Manager India and Middle East, is a highly experienced jewellery industry sales and marketing professional with a proven 10-year record (1997-2007) to deliver on prestigious and iconic multinational jewellery brands like Damas (Middle East) and Diamond Trading Company, De Beers (India). Samit is credited with pioneering middle east's sensational gold youth brand launch - Farfasha with arab youth icon Nancy Ajram for Damas in 2005, and has previously also worked for DTC (India) as the National Sales and Marketing Manager.
Paul Boots is Manager IDL Antwerp. Paul has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in Economics, Management and Finance from Babson College (Wellesley, USA). He began his career working in the Private Equity industry for CVC Capital Partners where he built research models to structure management buy-outs. He joined the diamond sector at the end of 2006, having previously gained several years of commercial experience in the banking sector as an Account Manager at Euroclear Bank in Brussels.