{"id":1004737,"date":"2026-04-25T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004737"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:47:52","slug":"nasscom-appoints-fractal-cofounder-srikanth-velamakanni-as-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/nasscom-appoints-fractal-cofounder-srikanth-velamakanni-as-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasscom appoints Fractal cofounder Srikanth Velamakanni as Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous AI firm Fractal cofounder and group CEO of Fractal Srikanth Velamakanni has been appointed the new Chairman of Nasscom, the apex IT industry body said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>He succeeds Sindhu Gangadharan, Managing Director, SAP Labs India, who completes a distinguished term as Chairperson in April 2026. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Srikanth Velamakanni appointed Chairperson of Nasscom. Kishor Patil elected as Vice Chairperson,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indigenous AI firm Fractal cofounder and group CEO of Fractal Srikanth Velamakanni has been appointed the new Chairman of Nasscom, the apex IT industry body said on Thursday. He succeeds Sindhu Gangadharan, Managing Director, SAP Labs India, who completes a distinguished term as Chairperson in April 2026. &#8220;Srikanth Velamakanni appointed Chairperson of Nasscom. Kishor Patil elected as Vice Chairperson,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004755,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004737\/revisions\/1004755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}