MUMBAI: Neysa, the purpose-built AI compute and acceleration cloud provider, has recruited Anup Purohit, former global chief information officer at Wipro and one of India’s most battle-hardened enterprise technology leaders, as strategic advisor. The move signals that the Mumbai-based firm is thinking well beyond infrastructure as it pushes deeper into the boardrooms of India’s largest organisations.
Purohit’s CV reads like a masterclass in large-scale technology leadership. Over three decades, he has served as global CIO at Wipro, group CIO at YES Bank, head of IT at RBL Bank, and held senior technology roles at Barclays and JPMorgan across Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. He has steered organisations through wave after wave of digital transformation, the kind of hard-won experience that no amount of product engineering can replicate.
In his new role, Purohit will work alongside Neysa’s leadership team as the company scales adoption of Velocis, its AI acceleration cloud system, and extends its reach among enterprises treating AI as a core business capability rather than an experiment. He will guide the firm on enterprise technology priorities and help it sharpen its understanding of how large organisations actually evaluate, procure and deploy AI at scale.
Sharad Sanghi, co-founder and chief executive of Neysa, was unambiguous about what Purohit brings to the table. “Building platforms such as Velocis requires more than infrastructure expertise,” he said. “It requires a deep understanding of how enterprises evaluate technology investments, manage change and drive business outcomes. Anup brings that perspective from his experience leading technology organisations at global scale.”
Purohit, for his part, is bullish on what Neysa is building. “What excites me about Neysa is its focus on building the foundational infrastructure needed to make AI adoption practical, scalable and accessible,” he said. “Organizations across industries are evaluating how to translate AI’s potential into meaningful business outcomes and that’s precisely where Neysa plays.”
Beyond Neysa, Purohit serves as additional director and strategic advisor at Spliceforms and has advised boards, regulators and leadership teams across financial services and technology. He holds a degree in electronics engineering from Mumbai University, has completed the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal programme at Harvard Business School, and is a certified independent director from the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs.
Neysa was founded by Sanghi and Anindya Das. Its flagship Velocis platform bundles AI infrastructure, inference, orchestration, observability, optimisation and AI/ML security into a single enterprise environment.
With Purohit now in its corner, Neysa has just made its enterprise sales pitch considerably harder to ignore.
