Accenture appoints two heads to lead its India operations

Accenture appoints new India leadership heads

Global technology company Accenture has appointed new additions to its leadership team in India. Ajay Vij has been appointed to the newly created role of Country Managing Director, and Sandeep Dutta takes over as the lead for its India Market Unit. The company also said that Rekha M Menon, Senior Managing Director and Chairperson for Accenture in India, will retire as of June 30.

The primary responsibilities of the Chairperson will now be undertaken by these new appointees. As country managing director, Ajay Vij will expand his current responsibilities as the Corporate Services and Sustainability lead for India to provide overall leadership and drive coordinated decision-making for the company. Sandeep Dutta, the India Sales Lead will now lead Accenture’s India Market Unit, serving as its India business lead responsible for driving business and operations in the domestic market, focusing on growth, market differentiation, and clients. In an expansion of this role, Dutta will now also be responsible for working with the local business communities and representing Accenture with local industry and trade bodies.

During her 20-year career at Accenture Rekha M. Menon held various roles across Accenture’s growth markets. As Chairperson, she played an active role in growing Accenture’s business, strengthening the company’s presence in its communities and building relationships with key stakeholders including those within industries, the government besides Accenture's clients.

Databricks to expand India operations

Databricks, the data and AI company has announced plans to increase its employee headcount by more than 50% in India this year, adding roles like technical specialists, sales and support engineers, and go-to-market resources, to its team of over 250. The company also announced the launch of a new R&D (research and development) hub in Bengaluru later this year.

According to the company, across the Asia Pacific region it is experiencing 90% year-over-year business growth. Databricks has built what it calls the data lakehouse, which is an open and unified data management architecture that combines the flexibility, cost-efficiency and scalability with features of data warehouses, enabling business intelligence (BI) and machine learning (ML) on all data.

Recently, Databricks also announced the appointment of Anil Bhasin as the Country Manager for India to drive further lakehouse adoption across the country.