{"id":11668,"date":"2018-07-04T00:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T22:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/en\/?p=11668"},"modified":"2018-07-05T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:02:03","slug":"publicis-sapient-hires-engineers-from-tesco-and-amazon-for-key-leading-digital-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/en\/publicis-sapient-hires-engineers-from-tesco-and-amazon-for-key-leading-digital-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicis.Sapient hires engineers from Tesco and Amazon for key  leading digital roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publicis.Sapient, the digital business transformation hub belonging to Publicis Groupe, has announced two key executive appointments from global retail and technology giants Tesco and Amazon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11669\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/PublicisSapient_Tilak_Doddapaneni_RRSS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11669\" src=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/PublicisSapient_Tilak_Doddapaneni_RRSS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/PublicisSapient_Tilak_Doddapaneni_RRSS.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/PublicisSapient_Tilak_Doddapaneni_RRSS-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Tilak Doddapaneni. (PRNewsfoto\/Publicis.Sapient)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tilak Doddapaneni has been hired into the newly created position of Global Head of Engineering at Publicis.Sapient. He is joining the agency from Tesco.<br \/>\nRakesh Ravuri, the new Chief Technology Officer for programming languages and cloud and Global Head of Engineering for Retail, comes from Amazon.<br \/>\nBoth Doddapaneni and Ravuri are Sapient alumni.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Doddapaneni, to lead tech delivery community inside the agency worldwide<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his new role, Tilak Doddapaneni will lead the entire technology delivery community across Publicis.Sapient globally. In addition to client success and engineering and delivery excellence, he will focus on the talent development, performance metrics, and breakthrough engineering practices required by digital business transformation clients in their modern test and learn environments.<\/p>\n<p>In his time at Tesco, Doddapaneni built a modern online engineering team spanning India and the UK, leading it to successfully launch Tesco Direct and Tesco&#8217;s Marketplace, and rolling out a re-architected Grocery Home Shopping platform in the UK and international markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abAs someone who is passionate about engineering and running large software systems, I am excited to return to Sapient, which continues to lead the way as a digital transformation company that uniquely combines strategy, experience and engineering disciplines to help clients reimagine and transform their businesses for a digital age. Building a company that has, develops and attracts world-class engineering talent is what has brought me back to Sapient,\u00bb said Doddapaneni.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Ravuri, key role in India, reporting to Doddapaneni<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ravuri, who joins the agency after a succession of senior engineering roles at Amazon, will play a key leadership role in Publicis.Sapient&#8217;s extensive operations in India. He will report to Doddapaneni.<\/p>\n<p>Ravuri, who joins Publicis.Sapient as one of the Chief Technology Officers and Global Head of Engineering for Retail, brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud platforms, service design and agile engineering gained as Director of Software Development at Amazon. Ravuri built the engineering team responsible for the software systems for Amazon&#8217;s new logistics business to launch ship.amazon, delivering millions of packages for its sellers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11670\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/PublicisSapient_Rakesh_Ravuri_RRSS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11670\" src=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/PublicisSapient_Rakesh_Ravuri_RRSS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/PublicisSapient_Rakesh_Ravuri_RRSS.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/PublicisSapient_Rakesh_Ravuri_RRSS-768x607.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Rakesh Ravuri (PRNewsfoto\/Publicis.Sapient)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00abThe industry is at an inflection point and technology has moved from support role to the driver&#8217;s seat. Sapient is right at the centre of this, with its focus on digital business transformation. I am excited to have a chance to play a leading role in the engineering transformation both for Sapient and its clients,\u00bb said Ravuri.<\/p>\n<p>The key executive appointments come as Publicis.Sapient expands its product engineering capability, vital to digital business transformation and the ability to help clients transform their business and create exponential growth, increase efficiency and create better experiences \u2013 through the rapid development of products and services that consumers expect in a technology-enabled world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abI&#8217;m delighted that Tilak and Rakesh will be joining Publicis.Sapient on our journey to build our engineering capability as part of our product engineering approach to deliver digital business transformation for our clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abTilak has exceptional pedigree as a senior leader driving transformational change for one of the world&#8217;s biggest retailers through an appreciation of the power that technology and engineering have, as well as an understanding of how to apply that in the evolution of product and experience. His wealth of experience makes him the right person to lead the implementation of our agile engineering model globally. Rakesh comes to us having recently successfully led the engineering team that developed Amazon delivery, one of the most significant revenue generating businesses for a global technology and retail leader.<\/p>\n<p>His experience and talent will be a huge boon to Publicis.Sapient clients and to the growth of our retail industry expertise and large-scale India operations,\u00bb said Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis.Sapient EMEA and APAC.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Image over the headline.-<\/strong> \u00a9 Publicis.Sapient.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publicis.Sapient, the digital business transformation hub belonging to Publicis Groupe, has announced two key executive appointments from global retail and technology giants Tesco and Amazon. Tilak Doddapaneni has been hired into the newly created position of Global Head of Engineering at Publicis.Sapient. He is joining the agency from Tesco. Rakesh Ravuri, the new Chief Technology &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/en\/publicis-sapient-hires-engineers-from-tesco-and-amazon-for-key-leading-digital-roles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Publicis.Sapient hires engineers from Tesco and Amazon for key  leading digital roles<\/span> Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[3231,483,734,1492,7856,7854,7855],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11668"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}