Souma Das Appointed New MD of Teradata India
Souma Das appointed new MD for Teradata India to lead the strategic directions to the India business overseeing field operations that include sales, customer management, marketing, professional services and customer support.
Teradata has appointed Souma Das as the new Managing Director for Teradata India.
To avant-garde, Souma will lead the strategic directions to the India business overseeing field operations that include sales, customer management, marketing, professional services and customer support.
Taking on the new leadership responsibility, Souma Das said, “I am excited to join Teradata at this incredible point of time when technologies like AI, deep learning,IoTand Cloud are creating an analytical environment that is disrupting conventional business wisdom, making companies reimagine and revitalize their go-to-market strategies to ensure a competitive edge. I look forward to solidifying Teradata’s business led and technology enabled approach to empower and enable Indian companies to innovate and thrive in an increasingly complex and analytical ecosystem.In India, we are seeing organizations embrace Big Data and analytics as a business enabler and I am looking forward to leading Teradata India’s growth trajectory and further strengthening relations with our customers and partners.”
Prior to joining Teradata, Souma was the Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Qlikfor its India operations responsible for driving growth, revenue and customer satisfaction for organisations leveraging Qlik’s analytics platform. Before joining Qlik, Souma was the Managing Director of Infor India.
“We are excited to welcome Souma Das to the role of Managing Director for Teradata in India. His leadership experience in the technology industry and proven track record of delivering customer outcomes across all industry sectors makes him stand out as a business leader,” said Andrew Blamey, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Korea(APAK), Teradata Corporation. He further added, “Over the last decade, we have built a strong team of experienced professionals including sales, professional services, data scientists and technology experts backed by our R&D and Services implementation teams to deliver high-quality customer services in India. We are looking forward to benefitting from Souma’s valuable experience and market insights as we focus on providing our market-leading analytic technology offerings to customers, delivering successful business outcomes enabled by best in class technology platforms.”
Souma is a post graduate in Executive Management from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and has a MS in Computer Science and Applications from Jadavpur University.
