Former Infosys executive Basab Pradhan to join CliQr Technologies
Pradhan to join as CEO of the Sunnyvale, California-based cloud computing start-up CliQr
Bangalore:Basab Pradhan, former global head of sales at India’s second largest software exporter Infosys Ltd, has joined Sunnyvale, California-based cloud computing start-up CliQr Technologies as chief executive.
Pradhan takes over from CliQr’s co-founder Gaurav Manglik, who will take on the role of chief strategy officer, the company said in a statement.
“Basab brings a proven track record as a leader of companies at various stages of maturity, with demonstrated success for aggressively growing businesses to be multi-billion dollar organizations," Manglik was cited as saying.
“I am very excited about the opportunity to lead a company that is at the cusp of something really big and important in enterprise technology," Pradhan wrote in a post on his personal blog.
Last month, Pradhan stepped down from his role at Infosys, a month after co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy came back out of retirement to lead a revival in its fortunes.
Pradhan, who was a member of the Infosys executive council and had previously worked with Hindustan Unilever Ltd, previously co-founded a technology start-up called Gridstone Research that analysed unstructured financial data.
Pradhan joined Infosys in 1994 but quit in 2005 to start Gridstone, and rejoined the company in 2011.
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