India centre to serve Cognite customers globally
Cognite, the globally recognized authority in Data and AI for industry, is establishing a Centre of Excellence in India and has appointed Guru Ananthanarayanan as its Managing Director, enhancing the company’s charge in Industrial AI, enabling Energy Process, and Manufacturing to serve its customers globally.
“Establishing India as a Center of Excellence (CoE) is core to our strategic plan as Cognite serves our customers globally,” said Paul Grenet, Cognite’s Chief Revenue Officer bse .
“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 nse .”
With existing offices in Oslo, Norway, Austin, Texas and Tokyo, the India Center of Excellence (ICoE) is 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 sbi .
Cognite is actively hiring the best and brightest software engineers, product managers, designers, and domain and services experts to fulfill its aspirations ibef .
“I am honored to join Cognite. Our India Center of Excellence (ICoE) expands our market footprint and serves as an innovation hub that will be a foundation for Cognite’s next phase of growth and success,” said Ananthanarayanan as he recruits and develops a high-performance team that will make Cognite Atlas AI the bedrock of transformation for industrial companies .
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 ai-expo . Additionally, Cognite is currently reaching out to industry, technology partners and academia to foster partnerships and co-innovation. 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.
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. Fiinews.com
