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Sarvam AI Appoints Ex-Google Cloud India MD Sashikumar Sreedharan as President and CBO
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CNBC TV18•07-10-2026, 22:17
Sarvam AI Appoints Ex-Google Cloud India MD Sashikumar Sreedharan as President and CBO
- •Indian AI startup Sarvam AI has appointed former Google Cloud India Managing Director Sashikumar Sreedharan as its President and Chief Business Officer.
- •Sreedharan will lead business operations and scale commercial activities around the company's full-stack sovereign AI platform.
- •His leadership will support the development of AI models, infrastructure, and applications for enterprises, developers, and government bodies.
- •The appointment coincides with Sarvam AI's expansion of its AI model portfolio, including the recent launch of Sarvam Vision 2.1 for Indian languages.
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Sashikumar Sreedharan has been appointed as the President and Chief Business Officer (CBO) of Sarvam AI to lead its commercial operations around its sovereign AI platform.
Sarvam Vision 2.1 is designed to read and extract information from documents, forms, tables, and handwritten text in English and 22 Indian languages, converting them into structured digital data.
Sreedharan served as the Managing Director of Google Cloud India from July 2025, after working as the Chief Operating Officer of Google Cloud APAC from September 2023 to July 2025. Prior to Google, he was the Managing Director at Microsoft Corporation India.
