Meet the new, unstoppable Indian tech honchos on world map

It is time to move over for Microsofts Satya Nadella Googles Sundar Pichai or Adobes Shantanu Narayan as new faces have joined the highprofile league of Indianled businesses calling the shots in the Silicon Valley and leading the global digital transformation waveThe latest to join the elite tech CEOs club is Rajesh Nambiar currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant India who has replaced Malcolm Frank Executive Vice President and President Digital Business and Technology at the IT majorNambiar who developed and led Operation C3 Cognizant Combats COVID19 brings deep knowledge of applications data AI analytics infrastructure cloud and consulting to his new role that began from June 4Also read New WhatsApp tools to help businesses connect with people at easeIn a short span of time Nambiar has established himself as a trusted leader among the 200000 associates of Cognizant in IndiaLiving and working in India which I will continue to do has helped me deeply understand our companys strong operating model and how we deliver value to clients he said in an internal note after his elevation to the top role on May 28Earlier in his career Nambiar served as the global leader of IBM Application Services where he was responsible for an USD 8 billion PampL that included data AI and analytics oversaw the building of technology practices offering a range of applications and managed profitable delivery for thousands of clientsHe joins Arvind Krishna the newly appointed CEO of the worlds oldest technology company IBM taking the Indian talent to new heightsAn alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Krishna replaced Virginia Rometty as the CEO of the IBM GroupLast month enterprise software major VMware announced to appoint Raghu Raghuram as its new Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective from June 1I am thrilled to have Raghuram step into the role of CEO at VMware Throughout his career he has led with integrity and conviction playing an instrumental role in the success of VMware said Michael Dell chairman of the VMware Board of DirectorsThe big change came as Dell Technologies announced to spin out VMware a move that will generate more than USD 9 billion for the company that acquired VMware as part of the USD 58 billion EMC acquisition announced as USD 67 billion in 2015VMware also appointed Sumit Dhawan as President who will lead all gotomarket functions including worldwide sales worldwide partner and commercial organisation customer experience and success CXS marketing and communicationsAnother recent name is IndianAmerican Thomas Kurian former Oracle President of product development and a respected technologist who is now leading Google CloudWe have always been bullish on India and you will see more investment coming from us towards that direction India offers a great opportunity where Google Cloud Platform GCP with its latest agile secure and scalable offerings can help enterprises SMBs and the growing startup ecosystem amid the governments call for digital transformation Kurian told IANS recentlyGoogle Cloud in February this year announced that Bikram Singh Bedi who set up the Amazon Web Services AWS operations in India will succeed Karan Bajwa as its new Managing Director for IndiaBajwa has already been elevated to become the new leader for Asia Pacific and is leading all regional revenue and gotomarket operations for Google Cloud including on Google Cloud Platform GCP and Google WorkspaceGoogle Cloud also continues to invest in India and is on track to launch its Delhi cloud region in India this year its second after Mumbai which was launched in 2017This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever