Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd (MIRPL) has appointed Rajiv Kumar as managing director on Monday. Currently, corporate vice-president of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices (E+D) Group, Kumar is taking on this added responsibility from Anil Bhansali, who held this role for the last six years. Bhansali will be relocating to Redmond, USA and will continue as the corporate vice-president of Cloud & Enterprise.
Kumar has a track record of strong people leadership, innovation and sharp business acumen in his 27-year long career at Microsoft. Over the years, he has innovated a variety of products and built large world-class engineering organizations rooted in the foundation of a strong culture of Microsoft, according to a company statement.
Among Kumar’s recent key contributions to Microsoft are Kaizala (an enterprise productivity chat app) & bootstrapping campus hiring programme in India, resulting in Microsoft hiring the best talent from premier engineering colleges in India.
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