Soni John
General Manager (Middle East & Garnet Arabia Company)
Soni joined GMA in 2005, and was promoted to General Manager at Garnet Arabia Company – a GMA joint venture – in 2009. Today, he heads the entire Middle East Region as General Manager, which also includes the Subcontinent, selected countries from Africa and CIS States.
Soni began his career in 1998, working in Marketing & Sales for Al Kaabi Contracting & Trading Company, a civil contracting and trading company in Doha. During that time, GMA abrasives were part of his product portfolio, as his employer was the sole distributor for GMA in the state of Qatar.
Seven years later, in 2005, Soni joined GMA Garnet Middle East as a Sales Manager in Jebel Ali, Dubai. In 2007, he was promoted to the position of Business Development Manager at the newly-formed Garnet Arabia Company.
Soni holds an MBA in International Business, a Masters Diploma in Business Administration majoring in Marketing, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.