Major tech appointments in 2022 (till now)
We are only halfway into April and have already seen major tech leadership changes globally and in India. Let’s take a look at the major tech hirings this year to date. Wipro appoints Anis Chenchah as CEO, APMEA Last week, Wipro Limited announced the appointment of Anis Chenchah as a member of the Wipro Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer, APMEA. Anis brings to Wipro over two decades of experience and has worked in IT and business services as well as consulting. Before this, Anis served as the Global CEO of Capgemini Business Services and a member of the Group Executive Committee. Before that, he spent seven years in Logica. He holds a master’s degree in Engineering from ENSISA in France. Wipro appoints Badrinath Srinivasan as MD, Southeast Asia In January, Wipro announced the appointment of Badrinath Srinivasan as the managing director for Southeast Asia. In this role, he will focus on Wipro’s business growth, revenue expansion, client and influencer relationships, talent development and brand building. Before this, he was the Asia leader for the financial services and insurance verticals at Infosys. He has spent over 20 years in Infosys, holding multiple leadership roles in sales and consulting across geographies such as the United States of America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific markets. He has an engineering degree in electronics and communications and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. Raj Subramaniam to become president and CEO of FedEx FedEx Corp has promoted Raj Subramaniam, president and chief operating officer at FedEx to president and CEO, effective from June 1, while Frederick W Smith, chairman and chief executive officer, will become executive chairman. Raj joined FedEx in 1991 and has held several leadership positions in the company. He has also served as the president and chief executive officer of FedEx Express. Raj holds a bachelor’s in engineering from IIT, Bombay, MS from Syracuse University and an MBA from The University of Texas. HPE appoints Trish Damkroger as chief product officer of the HPC and AI Trish Damkroger has joined HPE as chief product officer, HPC and AI. She will design and drive an end-to-end strategy for the entire product portfolio across the HPC and data solutions. Trish came with over 30 years of experience and served as vice president and general manager of HPC at Intel in her last role. Before Intel, she was the deputy associate director of Computation at the US DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). She led a team of more than 1,000 engineers and scientists working on supercomputers. TCS reappoints Rajesh Gopinathan as MD and CEO TCS board has reappointed Rajesh Gopinathan as the managing director and CEO and Ganapathy Subramaniam as the COO and executive director for five years, effective from February 21. Rajesh has been the CEO and MD of TCS since February 2017. Ganapathy has also been with TCS since February 2017 as the COO and executive director. Addverb Technologies appoints Tapan Pattnayak as director, System Architecture Addverb Technologies has appointed Tapan Pattnayak as director, System Architecture. Tapas comes with a rich experience of working in top companies. Prior to this role, he worked at Google as a hardware engineer with vast experience designing and developing ICs, PCBs, power systems etc. He has also worked in Intel, Cypress Semiconductors and NVIDIA. Meesho appoints Debdoot Mukherjee as chief data scientist Meesho has appointed Debdoot Mukherjee as the chief data scientist. He comes with over 14 years of experience. Before this, he was the vice president of AI at ShareChat. He has held leadership roles in data science at Myntra and Hike before that. He has an MTech in computer science and engineering from IIT, Delhi. NTT appoints Avinash Joshi as India CEO NTT Ltd has appointed Avinash Joshi as CEO of its India business. Sharad Sanghi has been made the managing director and will lead the businesses of NTT Ltd. in India. Avinash will be responsible for end-to-end go-to-market, sales, delivery, operations, and profitability for NTT Ltd in India and report to Sharad Sanghi. Before this, Avinash has spent around two decades in IBM and boasts expertise in business development, account management, sales and delivery. Earlier, he was a senior partner and vice president, 5G, APAC, IBM Services. Byju’s appoints Vedhanarayanan Ganeshkumar as vice president, Technology Ed-tech giant Byju’s has appointed Vedhanarayanan Ganeshkumar as vice president, Technology. He will build and lead a team of engineers, software development managers, software development engineers, product managers and program managers. Before joining Byju’s, he worked at Amazon for around 15 years, where he served as a senior manager of software development. He holds a master’s in computer applications from Anna University.
Addverb Technologies has appointed Tapan Pattnayak as director, System Architecture.
Addverb Technologies has appointed Tapan Pattnayak as director, System Architecture.
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