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Former SAP Labs India’s managing director, Anirban Dey, has joined Infosys as the global head of the Edge series of products, which is part of EdgeVerve, the products and platforms arm.
In June last year when Dey left SAP, it had sparked off speculations that he is likely to join Infosys because of his proximity with Vishal Sikka who had just then been nominated to steer the company as the CEO & MD.
A company spokesperson confirmed that Dey had joined EdgeVerve which is Infosys’s wholly-owned subsidiary and now being headed by Michael Reh who also had joined the company in October last year. Reh was previously an Executive VP at SAP responsible for Business Information Technology, Products & Innovation organization.
Media reports said that during his stint at SAP, Dey was part of the team that were responsible for developing various platforms that were closely interlinked with SAP Hana which is considered as the brainchild of Sikka when he was the head of technology as well as an executive board member at the German software maker.
According to Dey’s linkedIn profile, after leaving SAP, he had joined American management company Concur Technologies as a senior Vice President. He joined Infosys in March this year.
