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Mahindra Satyam has announced that GB Kumar and Bobby Gupta will lead Australia, New Zealand (ANZ) and the MENA (middle east and north america) markets respectively.
GB Kumar is a well known IT industry veteran with more than 20 years of in product and services, sales, marketing, business and solution development across Asia Pacific, India, Japan and China. In his previous role, Kumar led Asia Pacific, Japan and China as managing director for enterprise services for Cisco Systems. In this new role, he will be responsible to grow the company's revenues to contribute to the bigger target of Rs 5 bn by 2015.
On the other hand, Bobby Gupta will take over as head of ANZ operations after successfully transforming the MENA operations and building a world-class team and capabilities. His dynamic leadership in MENA resulted in a series of new logo wins, big deals, and opening up of new geographical markets.
Bobby had studied and worked in Australia for several years and joined Mahindra Satyam from IBM in 2009. In his new role at ANZ, he will be tasked with building on one-of-the largest English-speaking market for Mahindra Satyam which has substantive presence.
Rohit Gandhi, senior vice president, Asia-Pacific, India, Middle East and Africa, Mahindra Satyam, said, "Both ANZ and Middle East and Africa (MEA) markets are high-growth opportunities for Mahindra Satyam, after we complete our merger with Tech Mahindra. We sense traction from clients, prospects and partners that gives us a great reason to lend more focus here. I am confident that the inclusion of Bobby and Kumar into the leadership will help us achieve our goals for Mission 2015."
Mahindra Satyam earns 24 percent of its revenues from the rest of the world market, which comprises of Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and other geographies in Asia and Africa. With good traction seen in BFSI, manufacturing, resources, airlines, government, the company aims to grow rapidly with the new leadership change.