Ilya Sokolov heads marketing department of Eaton in Russia, its functional duties extend to the electrotechnical and industrial sector.
On the head's positions Mr. Sokolov is responsible for the global strategic decisions of the company designed to provide synergy of all directions of business, coordination and focus of all marketing initiatives. Coordination of actions of all structures of Eaton serves the global purposes of the company – to growth of business and presence in Russia on the basis of use of effective marketing and corporate solutions.
Before arrival to Eaton company Ilya Sokolov worked at a position of the sales and marketing director in Hella KGaA Hueck&Co company and was responsible for sales increase and strengthening of positions of the company in the CIS countries and also held different executive positions in Caterpillar company in the CIS countries. Ilya Sokolov works in Moscow and submits to the CEO of the Russian office Eaton Igor Anufriyev, and is functional – to Ramón Bastida, the senior marketing manager of the region of EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).
Ilya Sokolov was born in 1983 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow automobile and road state technical university (Moscow Administrative Road Inspectorate).