{"id":1041762,"date":"2026-10-08T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041762"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:28:03","slug":"google-cloud-india-md-sashikumar-sreedharan-steps-down-amit-kumar-named-interim-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/google-cloud-india-md-sashikumar-sreedharan-steps-down-amit-kumar-named-interim-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud India MD Sashikumar Sreedharan steps down, Amit Kumar named interim head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud is set for a leadership change in India, with Amit Kumar taking interim charge of the company\u2019s operations following Sashikumar Sreedharan\u2019s departure. <\/p>\n<p>Karan Bajwa, president of Google Cloud Asia Pacific, announced the change in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday, saying Sreedharan was leaving Google to pursue an opportunity outside the company. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our momentum in India has never been stronger, fuelled by accelerating business and AI growth across the market. As we continue to build our next phase of growth, I want to personally thank Sashikumar Sreedharan, who is moving on from Google to an external opportunity,&#8221; Bajwa wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud is set for a leadership change in India, with Amit Kumar taking interim charge of the company\u2019s operations following Sashikumar Sreedharan\u2019s departure. Karan Bajwa, president of Google Cloud Asia Pacific, announced the change in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday, saying Sreedharan was leaving Google to pursue an opportunity outside the company. &#8220;Our momentum in India has never been stronger, fuelled by accelerating business and AI growth across the market. As we continue to build our next phase of growth, I want to personally thank Sashikumar Sreedharan, who is moving on from Google to an external opportunity,&#8221; Bajwa wrote.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041762","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=1041762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041783,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041762\/revisions\/1041783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}