Cognite Names Guru Ananthanarayanan as Managing Director, Cognite India

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Cognite Names Guru Ananthanarayanan as Managing Director, Cognite India

2024-08-05 20:46 Last Updated At：20:50

AUSTIN, Texas & OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 5, 2024--

Cognite, the globally recognized authority in Data and AI for industry, today announced Guru Ananthanarayanan has been appointed Managing Director of Cognite India. This strategic step enhances the company’s charge in Industrial AI, enabling Energy, Process, and Manufacturing to serve its customers globally.

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“Establishing India as a Center of Excellence is core to our strategic plan as Cognite serves our customers globally,” said Paul Grenet, Cognite's Chief Revenue Officer. “Guru’s leadership experience delivering solutions to vertical markets, having operated in the US and in India, is compelling and timely for Cognite. Guru personifies our company values of Impact, Ownership and Relentless, which are imperative for us to build a vibrant culture for our team.”

Cognite offers a unique combination of industry-tailored AI product capabilities, specialized industrial domain knowledge, and industrial generative AI delivery expertise. The company’s latest strategic offering, Cognite Atlas AI ™, is a low-code industrial agent builder that enables industrial organizations to use generative AI to carry out more complex operations with greater accuracy, including workflow automation and decision-making support. This accelerates efficiencies that can generate tens of millions of dollars in business impact.

With existing offices in Oslo, Norway, Austin, Texas, and Tokyo, Japan, the India Center of Excellence (ICoE) was established to advance technical innovations and the development of breakthrough AI products, expand service offerings, and accelerate time to value for organizations looking to implement digital solutions. Cognite is actively hiring the best and brightest software engineers, product managers, designers, and domain and services experts to fulfill its aspirations.

“I am honored to join Cognite. Our India Center of Excellence expands our market footprint and serves as an innovation hub that will be a foundation for Cognite’s next phase of growth and success. I look forward to recruiting and developing a high-performance team that will make Cognite Atlas AI the bedrock of transformation for industrial companies,” said Ananthanarayanan.

Ananthanarayanan’s work history includes managing multi-million-dollar software projects for Fortune 500 companies and building high-performance teams to deliver complex solutions in a distributed onsite-offshore model. He served as the Vice President and Country Lead, India for Blue Yonder and as an engineer at Hyundai. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's degree in Manufacturing from BITS, Pilani.

At the outset, the ICoE will add 100+ experts to the Cognite team, including top talent in AI/ML, data science, engineering, services and program management. Additionally, Cognite is currently reaching out to industry, technology partners, and academia to foster partnerships and co-innovation. To learn more about Cognite’s products, services, and career opportunities, visit cognite.com.

About Cognite

Cognite makes Generative AI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power & renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time data to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and more profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centers, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real-time, and build a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cognite.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Freeman's 3-run homer helps Dodgers to 9-0 win, dropping Braves out of playoff position

2024-09-17 11:08 Last Updated At：11:10

ATLANTA (AP) — Freddie Freeman hit a three-run homer against his former team and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Atlanta 9-0 on Monday night, dropping the Braves out of a playoff position.

Shohei Ohtani was 0 for 4 with a walk and a pair of run-scoring grounders that increased his RBIs total to 108. He did not hit a home run or steal a base during the series, remaining at 47 home runs and 48 steals as he tries to become the first 50-50 player.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed four hits and two walks in four innings, throwing 72 pitches in his second start since returning from a right arm injury — up from 59 on Sept. 10.

“We've tried to take our time with him and make sure he is at full health and built him up the right way,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “It is a shot in the arm and he knows how valuable he is to our club. These last two starts, I feel like we have a good foundation and we are almost to the point where we can just let him go.”

The Dodgers extended their scoreless streak to 15 innings and pitched their 13th shutout.

NL West-leading Los Angeles (89-61) began the night 3 1/2 games behind second place San Diego. The Dodgers scored nine runs on just four hits for the second time since 1906: The other was on June 4, 2021, also at Atlanta.

After losing the first two games of the series by a combined 16-3, the Dodgers outscored the Braves 18-2 over the last two.

“When you start off a series like this at the end of the year and you want to play well and drop the first two, to come back and respond, I thought that was big by the team,” Freeman said. “I’ve played a long time and that was probably one of the weirdest offensive games I’ve been a part of.”

Atlanta (81-69) dropped one game behind the New York Mets (82-68) for the NL's third wild card spot. The Braves were 0 for 12 with runners in scoring position, including 0 for 10 against Yamamoto.

Los Angeles took advantage of seven walks, a hit batter and a wild pitch. Miguel Rojas was 1 for 1 with two walks, a steal and three runs scored.

“He really exemplifies what I expect in a ballplayer,” Roberts said. “Tonight, he won a ballgame for us.”

Max Fried (9-10) gave up three runs and two hits in six innings

Fried threw a run-scoring wild pitch in the first after Rojas walked, advanced on a grounder and stole third. Rojas' run-scoring single and Ohtani's RBI grounder boosted the lead to 3-0 in the fifth.

Freeman capped a six-run seventh with his 22nd homer after Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández drove in runs.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Dodgers: C Austin Barnes was placed on the 10-day IL with a left big toe fracture. C Hunter Feduccia was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City. ... RHP Joe Kelly (right shoulder inflammation) rejoined the team in Atlanta and could be activated while the team is in Miami this week.

Braves: 2B Ozzie Albies (wrist) is scheduled to play second base for Triple-A Gwinnett on Tuesday and Wednesday. If that goes well, he could rejoin the Braves in Miami on Friday.

UP NEXT

Dodgers: RHP Bobby Miller (2-4, 8.17) will open a three-game series in Miami on Tuesday night against Marlins RHP Darren McCaughan (0-0, 7.06), starting a stretch of six games against last-place teams.

Braves: Rookie RHP Grant Holmes (2-1, 3.49) faces Reds LHP Brandon Williamson (0-0, 2.08) to start a three-game series at Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

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