Cognite Names Guru Ananthanarayanan as Managing Director, Cognite India
Cognite, the globally recognized authority in Data and AI
for industry, today announced Guru Ananthanarayanan has been appointed Managing
Director of Cognite India. This strategic step enhances the company’s charge in
Industrial AI, enabling Energy, Process, and Manufacturing to serve its
customers globally.
“Establishing India as a Center of
Excellence is core to our strategic plan as Cognite serves our customers
globally,” said Paul Grenet, Cognite's Chief Revenue Officer. “Guru’s
leadership experience delivering solutions to vertical markets, having operated
in the US and in India, is compelling and timely for Cognite. Guru personifies
our company values of Impact, Ownership and Relentless, which are imperative
for us to build a vibrant culture for our team.”
Cognite
offers a unique combination of industry-tailored AI product capabilities,
specialized industrial domain knowledge, and industrial generative AI delivery
expertise. The company’s latest strategic offering, Cognite Atlas AI, is a low-code industrial
agent builder that enables industrial organizations to use generative AI to
carry out more complex operations with greater accuracy, including workflow
automation and decision-making support. This accelerates efficiencies that can
generate tens of millions of dollars in business impact.
With existing offices in Oslo, Norway, Austin, Texas, and Tokyo,
Japan, the India Center of Excellence (ICoE) was established to advance
technical innovations and the development of breakthrough AI products, expand
service offerings, and accelerate time to value for organizations looking to
implement digital solutions. Cognite is actively hiring the best and brightest
software engineers, product managers, designers, and domain and services
experts to fulfill its aspirations.
“I am honored to join Cognite. Our India Center of Excellence
expands our market footprint and serves as an innovation hub that will be a
foundation for Cognite’s next phase of growth and success. I look forward to
recruiting and developing a high-performance team that will make Cognite Atlas
AI the bedrock of transformation for industrial companies,” said
Ananthanarayanan.
Ananthanarayanan’s work history includes managing
multi-million-dollar software projects for Fortune 500 companies and building
high-performance teams to deliver complex solutions in a distributed
onsite-offshore model. He served as the Vice President and Country Lead, India
for Blue Yonder and as an engineer at Hyundai. He holds a Bachelor's degree in
Mechanical Engineering and a Master's degree in Manufacturing from BITS,
Pilani.
At the outset, the ICoE will add 100+ experts to the Cognite
team, including top talent in AI/ML, data science, engineering, services and
program management. Additionally, Cognite is currently reaching out to
industry, technology partners, and academia to foster partnerships and
co-innovation.
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