{"id":175307,"date":"2023-05-03T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/?p=175307"},"modified":"2023-05-03T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:18:22","slug":"industry-veteran-assumes-leadership-of-fast-growing-software-engineering-services-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/?p=175307","title":{"rendered":"Industry Veteran Assumes Leadership of Fast-Growing Software Engineering Services Co."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anand Birje – New CEO of Encora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Encora<\/a>, a global next-gen product engineering provider, announced that Anand Birje has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 15, 2023.\u00a0 Birje will work closely with Encora\u2019s founding CEO Venu Raghavan, who will remain at the company as Executive Chairman. Birje joins Encora from HCL Tech, where he has served most recently as the President of the Digital Business Services division.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my great honor to welcome Anand to Encora as our next CEO.\u00a0 His deep experience in fast-growing tech and in scaling global businesses through exponential growth, makes him the ideal leader for Encora,\u201d said Venu Raghavan, founder and CEO, Encora.\u00a0 \u201cSpeaking personally, I am heartened to entrust the future of Encora \u2014 a company that has been my enduring privilege to build \u2014 to a leader of Anand\u2019s experience, insight, integrity, and compassion. I look forward to working closely with Anand to help drive Encora\u2019s strategic priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled to join Encora, one of the world\u2019s fastest growing digital engineering services companies,\u201d said Birje. \u201cAs new and emerging digital technologies transform the global economy, there is a growing need for technology partners with mastery across technical, strategic, and industry-specific domains. Encora stands out as a paragon of what is possible when unparalleled technical expertise is cultivated in a people-centric culture that is truly global and authentically diverse.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his time at HCL, Birje focused on digital applications & platforms, cloud native development, data engineering & analytics, data consulting, and UX design practices. In the last three years, the Digital Business Services division has been the fastest growing of HCL Tech\u2019s divisions. Birje was responsible for driving global go-to-market strategy, practices, and delivery teams across all industry verticals spanning the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and LatAm. As a founding member of HCL Tech\u2019s Infrastructure Services division, Birje played a pivotal role in growing that business to over $2.5BN in under a decade. In addition to his executive leadership roles, Birje spearheaded a range of strategic acquisitions to expand delivery and consulting capabilities across U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to welcome Anand to Encora,\u201d said Shweta Jalan, Managing Partner, Advent International, Encora\u2019s principal investor. \u201cHis proven track record of leadership and transformational growth are perfectly matched with Encora\u2019s vision and aspirations. We also extend our deepest gratitude to Venu for his visionary leadership. Encora has a bright future, thanks to the incredible team and business that Venu has created.\u201d<\/p>\n

Encora provides digital and software engineering services to innovative companies across tech-enabled industries.\u00a0 The company has delivered industry-leading growth (+46% 3-year revenue CAGR) through disciplined focus on technical skill development, metrics-driven governance and the cultivation of an inspiring workplace environment.\u00a0 90% of Encorians work in an office that is certified as a Great Place to Work, spanning all six Latin American countries with business operations, as well as India.<\/p>\n

Encora is backed by private equity firms Advent International and Warburg Pincus and hosts offices in 14 countries around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Encora, a global next-gen product engineering provider, announced that Anand Birje has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 15, 2023.\u00a0 Birje will work closely with Encora\u2019s founding CEO Venu Raghavan, who will remain at the company as Executive Chairman. Birje joins Encora from HCL Tech, where he has served most recently as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-175307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-positions","tag-positions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}