Teradata Appoints Souma Das As Managing Director Of India Operations
Data and analytics firm Teradata appointed Souma Das as Managing Director. He will be responsible for providing overall strategic direction to the company's India business overseeing field operations that include sales, customer management, marketing, professional services and customer support.
Souma joins Teradata with almost three decades of experience in the tech industry. Most recently, he was the Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Qlik for its India operations managing its growth, revenue and customer satisfaction for organisations leveraging its analytics platform. Prior to joining Qlik, Souma was the Managing Director of Infor India.
“His 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.” he added.
Souma Das said, “ 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.”
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.
