{"id":981556,"date":"2025-12-22T11:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981556"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:45:07","slug":"starbucks-appoints-indian-origin-tech-executive-anand-varadarajan-as-new-cto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/starbucks-appoints-indian-origin-tech-executive-anand-varadarajan-as-new-cto\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks appoints Indian-origin tech executive Anand Varadarajan as new CTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks has named Indian-origin technology leader Anand Varadarajan as its new executive vice president and chief technology officer (CTO), bringing on board a seasoned executive with nearly two decades of experience at Amazon to head its global technology operations. <\/p>\n<p>Varadarajan will assume the role on January 19, join Starbucks\u2019 Executive Leadership Team, and report directly to Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol, the company said. He replaces Deb Hall Lefevre, who retired in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks has named Indian-origin technology leader Anand Varadarajan as its new executive vice president and chief technology officer (CTO), bringing on board a seasoned executive with nearly two decades of experience at Amazon to head its global technology operations. Varadarajan will assume the role on January 19, join Starbucks\u2019 Executive Leadership Team, and report directly to Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol, the company said. He replaces Deb Hall Lefevre, who retired in September.<\/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-981556","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\/981556","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=981556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}