Ex-Google Cloud India MD Sashikumar Sreedharan joins Sarvam as President and CBO

Sarvam has appointed Sashikumar Sreedharan as President and Chief Business Officer, and as a member of its board of directors. Sreedharan joins from Google Cloud, where he most recently served as Managing Director for India.

According to Sarvam’s announcement, Sreedharan will lead the company’s business across enterprises and government. He will also expand its work with digital native companies, developers and partners.

His remit covers five functions: marketing, finance, forward deployed engineering, service delivery and commercial operations.

Sarvam says Sreedharan has more than three decades of experience building and leading technology businesses. Before Google Cloud, he led Microsoft India’s enterprise business as Managing Director for over five years.

Sarvam framed the hire as coming while its customer work grows in scale and scope. It says over 100 enterprises and government institutions are building with its full-stack offering.

The company described the next phase as one of advancing its research, developing products “loved by people around the world,” and building a company that can operate at a much greater scale.

Sarvam also restated its position that every enterprise should own its AI. It says the data, the models and the agents stay inside the enterprise, and so does the value they create.

In the announcement, Sreedharan said: “India should be a maker of the intelligence the world runs on. For me, joining Sarvam is a commitment to that opportunity. I look forward to working with the team and our customers to build products that become part of how industries and governments operate.”

The hire follows Sarvam’s Series B. The company raised $234 million in the first close of the round in June 2026, at a valuation of $1.5 billion.

Investors in the round included HCLTech, Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and Peak XV Partners.

In October, ET reported that Sarvam was in talks to raise about $300 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion to $4 billion, with Cognizant among the potential investors.

The same month, Sarvam signed an MoU with Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff for AI projects across the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force.