Top Dell Executive To Head Mu Sigma India Operations

Mu Sigma, a leading pure-play providers of decision sciences and analytics solutions, announced today that Ganesh Lakshminarayanan has joined the company as Managing Director, India Operations. Ganesh will report into Dhiraj Rajaram, Mu Sigma’s Founder and CEO. Ganesh will work closely with the current leadership team to enhance the India delivery function and help the company continue to scale globally.

Commenting on the new appointment, Dhiraj said, “We must keep pace with the speed and scale of shift in the Big Data Space. Having known Ganesh for more than a decade, I am sure his rich experience in scaling operations will significantly help Mu Sigma in its journey of growth. We will continue to add leadership to achieve our endeavor to build a category defining company”

Ganesh joins Mu Sigma with more than 25 years of experience in the technology domain.  Prior to Mu Sigma, Ganesh was associated with Dell, heading its Asia Pacific and Japan sales operations. He is also credited with starting Dell’s India operations, and was instrumental in accelerating the company’s growth. 

R Chandrashekhar, President of NASSCOM said “We definitely see India well on its way to becoming the centre of excellence in the space of Big Data and analytics. There is increased convergence in this sector of man and machine, products and services. My best wishes to Mu Sigma for their journey towards building a unique ecosystem of people, processes and platforms.” 

“Mu Sigma’s approach of combining math, business, technology and behavioural science to help companies solve business problems has always interested me,” said Ganesh. “The frameworks and platforms used by Mu Sigma, which helped it grow from a disruptive start-up to an industry-leading provider of decision sciences, is exciting. I am thrilled to be part of this transformation and look forward to enabling the company to rise to even higher levels,” he added.

Mu Sigma also announced today that former Forrester Research executive Tom Pohlmann has joined the company as head of values and strategy. “These senior hires are key to helping Mu Sigma continue on its path of fast growth,” said Dhiraj.