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Cognite Names Guru Ananthanarayanan as Managing Director, Cognite India

Cognite Names Guru Ananthanarayanan as Managing Director, Cognite India

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Published at: 8/5/2024, 11:29:00 AM

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Establishing prominent presence in India, a strategic step, as company scales its Gen AI solutions for industry

AUSTIN, TX, OSLO, NO – August 5, 2024 - Cognite, the globally recognized authority in Data and AI for industry, today announced Guru Ananthanarayanan has been appointed Managing Director of Cognite India. This strategic step enhances the company’s charge in Industrial AI, enabling Energy, Process, and Manufacturing to serve its customers globally.

“Establishing India as a Center of Excellence is core to our strategic plan as Cognite serves our customers globally,” said Paul Grenet, Cognite's Chief Revenue Officer. “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.”

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.

With existing offices in Oslo, Norway, Austin, Texas, and Tokyo, Japan, the India Center of Excellence (ICoE) was established 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. Cognite is actively hiring the best and brightest software engineers, product managers, designers, and domain and services experts to fulfill its aspirations.

“I am honored to join Cognite. Our India Center of Excellence expands our market footprint and serves as an innovation hub that will be a foundation for Cognite’s next phase of growth and success. I look forward to recruiting and developing a high-performance team that will make Cognite Atlas AI the bedrock of transformation for industrial companies,” said Ananthanarayanan.

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.

At the outset, the IoCE will add 100+ experts to the Cognite team, including top talent in AI/ML, data science, engineering, services and program management. Additionally, Cognite is currently reaching out to industry, technology partners, and academia to foster partnerships and co-innovation. To learn more about Cognite’s products, services, and career opportunities, visit cognite.ai.

About Cognite
Cognite makes Generative AI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power & renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time data to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and more profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centers, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real-time, and build a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cognite.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Cognite Media Contact:
Michelle Holford
Vice President, Global PR
Michelle.Holford@Cognite.com

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