Abhijit Dubey will soon become the first non-Japanese chief executive of the Tokyo-headquartered NTT Data Inc., which is sharpening its focus on strengthening its businesses outside Japan, including in India, and providing artificial intelligence and generative AI-powered solutions. When he assumes charge, Dubey will also become the first CEO of Indian origin to lead a Japanese group, joining the ranks of Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Arvind Krishna, Shantanu Narayen, and Nikesh Arora, who head global technology companies Microsoft, Google, IBM, Adobe and Palo Alto Networks, respectively.
A little over two years ago, NTT Data Corp. merged the overseas business of NTT Inc. with the group’s overseas business–a move aimed at accelerating NTT Data’s global business growth outside Japan by increasing its global footprint.
“NTT Data is the $30-billion invisible company that is changing the world responsibly," the global CEO designate of the NTT Group told in an interview during his recent visit to India. Japan, according to Dubey, currently accounts for around $12 billion of the overall global revenue. NTT Data, he added, is now a “full-stack transformation company", which implies that it has all the tools “to transform the platforms of our clients’ infrastructure–data centers, cloud environments, networks, applications, data, etc.
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