RingCentral, a provider of AI-powered global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, video meetings, and contact center solutions, today announced that Sathesh Murthy has been appointed as Managing Director India and Head of Engineering.
Murthy was most recently Vice President, Product Development and India Site Leader at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and prior to that, was Managing Director and Vice President of Engineering at Informatica India. In his new role, Murthy will focus on growing RingCentral’s engineering organisation in India and accelerating innovation.
Prior to Oracle, Murthy, who was VP and Managing Director of Informatica India, led the development of Informatica’s flagship Enterprise Data Catalog and Governance products.
“RingCentral is expanding rapidly to bring the benefits of cloud business communications to customers around the world, and we see India as an important market for our international expansion,” said, Mo Katibeh, President and Chief Operating Officer at RingCentral. “We’re excited to have Murthy on board as Managing Director to lead our India-based engineering organisation as we scale for growth, to transform our innovation centers in India into centers of excellence, and to become a major new R&D hub.”
Murthy, an industry veteran with 27 years of experience, joins RingCentral from Oracle where he led the AI and Data services engineering organisation to build a comprehensive set of cloud services for today’s data driven enterprises to effectively manage their data assets and build modern AI/ML led analytics solutions. He also served as the Site leader for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in India where he led several organisation-wide strategic programs to build a 3000+ strong engineering organisation, foster a culture of innovation and drive ownership.
“I am thrilled to be joining RingCentral at this point in time when companies all over the world are realising the tangible value unified communications can have on their business,” said, Murthy. “As RingCentral continues to expand globally, I look forward to taking our India operations to the next level by expanding our engineering organisation, driving product innovation, and building best of breed unified communications platform and applications.”
Murthy joins a growing RingCentral India team, working closely with Rajeev Singh Rathore, Vice President Cloud Operations, who is spearheading the launch of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS), and cloud-based PBX services, including internet telephony services, in India.
