Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in providing AI driven, IP-led, digital assurance, software quality engineering, testing and consulting services company, announced the appointment of veteran IT and product engineering industry business leader, Vinay Rawat as Chief Revenue Officer and Sairam Vedam, an award winning, expert in global marketing, branding, corporate strategy and digital industry thought leader, as its Chief Marketing Officer.
Vinay has had an illustrious career as the CRO and Head of M&A at Infogain. At Wipro, as the SVP & Global Head – Network Equipment & Consumer Electronics BU, he was responsible for all aspects of the business of multi hundred-million-dollars.
Sairam is an accomplished marketing and strategy leader with proven expertise in creating brands of global repute in the enterprise software products and services space. Prior to Cigniti, he was the CMO for Innominds, and Kore.AI, helming their growth in the digital product engineering and Enterprise Conversational AI platform space. Sairam has also worked with Pramati, Apere, CTO’s office at CA Technologies and HCL Technologies across roles spanning engineering, delivery, marketing, and HR. He was recognized and awarded by BBC Knowledge Series as one of the Greatest Marketing Influencers in 2017.
Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO – Cigniti Technologies, said, “I am excited to welcome Vinay Rawat and Sairam Vedam into two key positions of Cigniti. Together, they will work towards achieving Cigniti’s stated goal of helping global companies become Digital First. Cigniti is in a unique position to leverage its deep-rooted expertise of helping enterprises accelerate the digital transformation initiatives through world class digital assurance and engineering services. The experience that both these leaders bring on board in working with digital and product engineering, AI platform companies would help in accelerating our next phase of growth.”
“Vinay brings extensive experience in general management and especially in sales and business development, creative deal making, outsourcing, process design and operations management. Based out of the US, as the CRO, Vinay will focus on identifying new revenue opportunities and pioneer new markets for the company. He will work closely with Chairman & MD, CEO and Board of directors and would develop growth strategies, new offerings and opportunities.” he added.
Speaking about Sairam, Srikanth said, “Sairam who has joined us back at Cigniti will oversee the planning and execution of the organization’s strategic marketing programs, work on developing the long term charter towards our digital play, and will enhance Cigniti’s mindshare as a preferred Digital services provider and thought leader amongst across our customers, partners, analysts, media, investors, influencers and employees. In his prior stint with us he drove the 360-degree marketing function building it from the scratch, managing the global brand footprint, and has a complete understanding of our culture and vision,” he added.
