Sridhar Vembu, Chief Scientist of Zoho Corporation, emphasizes the importance of leveraging India's unique strengths and opportunities rather than replicating China's approach. He highlights the necessity for grassroots innovation and the establishment of a national fund to foster Indian tech talent and foundation models.

Vembu founded a software development house for network equipment providers called AdventNet, which was renamed Zoho Corporation in 2009, focusing on providing SaaS support to customer relationship management services.

BENGALURU: SaaS unicorn Zoho Corp’s co-founder Sridhar Vembu will step down as the company’s CEO and assume a new role as Chief Scientist. He will be responsible for the company’s R&D initiatives. Vembu in a post on X said,

CHENNAI: Sridhar Vembu has stepped down as the chief executive of Zoho Corp to focus more on the research and development of artificial intelligence products. Vembu would take up a new role as the chief scientist,

Vembu will step down as CEO of Zoho Corp and take a new role as Chief Scientist, responsible for deep R&D initiatives.

As part of the leadership transition, Sridhar Vembu has handed over the role of group CEO to Shailesh Kumar Davey, a co-founder of the company.

Billionaire Sridhar Vembu has resigned as the CEO of his cloud-based business software company Zoho to take on a new role. While making the announcement on Monday, Vembu also introduced his successor for the chief executive role.