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\"Sashi<\/a>Bengaluru, India, February 16th, 2015: Happiest Minds Technologies, a next generation IT company today announced the appointment of Sashi Kumar as the CEO & MD of the organization.<\/p>\n

Sashi comes to Happiest Minds with a wealth of experience. During his career of 23 years, he has been profit centre head for 11 years and has achieved significant success and innovative breakthroughs in his previous roles. Prior to Happiest Minds, Sashi has led significant operations in Microsoft, SAP and CSC. He began his career in Wipro.<\/p>\n

While welcoming Sashi Kumar to Happiest Minds, Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds said that \u201cSashi\u2019s experience in global products and services companies will provide a tremendous push towards bringing innovation to Happiest Minds in a world of productized services and solutions. This, coupled with his expertise in global business services and SMAC+ technologies, will further accelerate our success in implementing Digital Transformation solutions for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his appointment, Sashi Kumar said, \u201cHappiest Minds has shown tremendous growth under its current leadership and I am delighted to be the CEO & MD of this fast growing company. I have an opportunity to build a global organization and I truly believe in its Mission of \u201cHappiest People . Happiest Customers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Happiest Minds\u2019 strategy of focusing on disruptive technologies has resonated well with customers. It has achieved several records for an IT services company out of India in 3 years from its launch, with run rate of US$ 50mn, 94 customers and 1450 people. Happiest Minds is also on track for its goal of going public in maximum 7 years from its launch.<\/p>\n

About Happiest Minds Technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Happiest Minds has a sharp focus on enabling Digital Transformation for customers by delivering a Smart, Secure and Connected experience through disruptive technologies: mobility, big data analytics, security, cloud computing, social computing, M2M\/IoT, unified communications, etc. Enterprises are embracing these technologies to implement Omni-channel strategies, manage structured & unstructured data and make real time decisions based on actionable insights, while ensuring security for data and infrastructure. Happiest Minds also offers high degree of skills, IPs and domain expertise across a set of focused areas that include Digital Transformation & Enterprise Solutions, Product Engineering Services, Infrastructure Management, Security, Testing and Consulting.<\/p>\n

Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Happiest Minds has operations in the US, UK, Singapore and Australia. It secured a $52.5 million Series-A funding led by Canaan Partners, Intel Capital and Ashok Soota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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