After serving at Tech Mahindra for 19 years, Gurnani retired from his publish in December. Beforehand, he served on the Board of Mahindra & Mahindra for over three a long time. Earlier than Tech Mahindra, Gurnani was the founder and CEO of HCL Perot JV.
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International footprint
Gurnani’s precedence as an Impartial Director is to broaden upGrad’s world footprint. “My focus is to work with the management groups to remodel upGrad right into a extremely export-oriented product, tapping into alternatives in B2B and B2C markets. It’s attention-grabbing how upGrad is reversing the pyramid, empowering tens of millions, and addressing the rising demand for upskilling, notably in instances of AI,” he mentioned.
He added that he’s dedicated to guiding the corporate to construct extra sensible content material and individualised studying trajectories for learners from various backgrounds and geographies.
Gurnani is the second non-executive director after the workforce growth main introduced the appointment of Chegg’s Dan Rosensweig in March final 12 months.
“Conscious of our sound progress, we’re actively deploying a well-structured governance mannequin — guided by leaders aligned to help upGrad’s growth over short-term good points,” mentioned Ronnie Screwvala, Co-founder and chairperson of upGrad. “I’m assured that CP’s profound management and talent to pre-empt market traits would additional improve our framework and underpin the integrity and effectivity of our enterprise mannequin. He comes with a really robust enterprise mind and has a confirmed document of scaling companies throughout each B2B and B2C segments,” he added.
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