Publicis.Sapient appoints Tilak Doddapaneni as Global Head
of Engineering and Rakesh Ravuri as CTO
Doddapaneni joins the agency as global head of engineering
and Ravuri joins as chief technology officer for programming languages and
cloud and global head of engineering - retail.
In a recent announcement, the world’s most advanced digital
transformation platform, Publicis.Sapient (NASDAQ:SAPE, $3.50 Billion market
cap) has appointed Tilak Doddapaneni as global head of engineering and Rakesh
Ravuri as Chief Technology Officer for programming languages and cloud and
global head of engineering - retail.
Doddapaneni joins the agency from Tesco, where he was online
engineering director. Doddapaneni will join the Publicis.Sapient global
leadership team and report directly to Nigel Vaz, Publicis Groupe lead for
digital business transformation and CEO of Publicis.Sapient EMEA and APAC.
Ravuri, who has held a succession of senior engineering roles at Amazon in the
past, will play a key leadership role in Publicis.Sapient's extensive
operations in India. Ravuri will report to Doddapaneni. Both Doddapaneni and
Ravuri are Sapient alumni.
The key executive appointments come as Publicis.Sapient
expandsits product engineering capability, vital to digital business
transformation and the ability to help clients transform their business and
create exponential growth, increase efficiency and create better experiences -
through the rapid development of products and services that consumers expect in
a technology-enabled world.
In his new role, Doddapaneni will lead the entire technology
delivery community across Publicis.Sapient globally. In addition to client
success and engineering and delivery excellence, he will focus on the talent
development, performance metrics, and breakthrough engineering practices
required by digital business transformation clients in their modern test and
learn environments. In his time at Tesco, Doddapaneni built a modern online
engineering team spanning India and the UK, leading it to successfully launch
Tesco Direct and Tesco's Marketplace, and rolling out a re-architected Grocery
Home Shopping platform in the UK and international markets.
Ravuri, brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud platforms,
service design and agile engineering gained as Director of Software Development
at Amazon. Ravuri built the engineering team responsible for the software
systems for Amazon's new logistics business to launch ship.amazon, delivering
millions of packages for its sellers.
Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis.Sapient EMEA and APAC, says in a
press release, "I'm delighted that Tilak and Rakesh will be joining
Publicis.Sapient on our journey to build our engineering capability as part of
our product engineering approach to deliver digital business transformation for
our clients. Tilak has exceptional pedigree as a senior leader driving
transformational change for one of the world's biggest retailers through an
appreciation of the power that technology and engineering have, as well as an
understanding of how to apply that in the evolution of product and experience.
His wealth of experience makes him the right person to lead the implementation
of our agile engineering model globally."
He adds, "Rakesh comes to us having recently
successfully led the engineering team that developed Amazon delivery, one of
the most significant revenue generating businesses for a global technology and
retail leader. His experience and talent will be a huge boon to
Publicis.Sapient clients and to the growth of our retail industry expertise and
large-scale India operations.".
Commenting on his appointment, Doddapaneni, says in a press
release, "As someone who is passionate about engineering and running large
software systems, I am excited to return to Sapient, which continues to lead
the way as a digital transformation company that uniquely combines strategy,
experience and engineering disciplines to help clients reimagine and transform
their businesses for a digital age. Building a company that has, develops and
attracts world-class engineering talent is what has brought me back to
Sapient."
Commenting on his appointment, Ravuri, says in a press
release, "The industry is at an inflection point and technology has moved
from support role to the driver's seat. Sapient is right at the centre of this,
with its focus on digital business transformation. I am excited to have a
chance to play a leading role in the engineering transformation both for
Sapient and its clients."
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