NEC India has announced the appointment of Angira Agrawal as Head & Associate Vice President for its Cloud business in India. Angira will be responsible for heading the Cloud initiative for NEC India, defining the overall strategy, including cloud offering partners, the Go-To-Market (GTM) partners and the Platform capabilities.
Angira has close to 17 years of experience across the telecom and IT industries, with a successful track record in leading various business functions across product, sales, marketing and business development in his previous appointments, including driving SaaS and enterprise mobility business, structuring new global relationships, and leading key strategic GTM and investment relationships for IaaS. With Cloud being his forte, Angira will be responsible for steering NEC’s cloud business to the next level and further broadening NEC’s world-class portfolio blended with local partner offerings.
Commenting on the appointment, Koji Oda, Managing Director, NEC India Pvt. Ltd. said, “Cloud Computing is set to become the most important sustainable revenue opportunity for carriers since voice. With the growing trend towards mobile computing, it is evident that the cloud computing business model is here to stay and will transform the way businesses operate. NEC as a total solutions provider is in a unique position to integrate both IT and network solutions to help telecom operators achieve new business revenues with our ubiquitous cloud computing solutions offering. We are glad to have Angira on board, as he brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience by virtue of his in-depth understanding of the overall cloud computing industry in India and globally.”
Expressing his delight on the appointment, Angira Agrawal, Associate Vice President, Cloud business, NEC India said, “NEC is very well known in the global as well as Indian IT and Communications domain and I am happy to be a part of this organization. With the convergence of ICT, NEC is uniquely placed to leverage its strengths across both segments, and I am excited by the commitment that NEC has to Cloud, globally and in India. I look forward to bringing NEC India at the forefront of the cloud computing business.”
