Appointment Overview
Sonata Software Limited, headquartered in Bengaluru, India, issued a press release on 17 August 2026 announcing the appointment of Hariprasad Rebala as Chief AI Officer. In this capacity, Rebala will lead Sonata’s end‑to‑end AI‑led business transformation, shaping and executing the company’s AI strategy across offerings, service delivery, platforms, capabilities, ecosystem and partnerships, with a focus on driving AI‑led business outcomes and AI‑native delivery that translate AI adoption into enterprise velocity and measurable business value.
Executive Background
Hariprasad Rebala brings more than three decades of experience spanning IT services, enterprise technology and the startup ecosystem. Most recently he served as Chief of AI Solutions and Growth at a deep‑tech AI startup (unnamed) and co‑founded Forfend, where he helped build IoT and conversational AI platforms. Earlier, he held senior leadership positions at Mindtree, Capgemini and Wipro, where he scaled businesses, built industry practices and led large transformation programmes, particularly across Banking and Financial Services.
Strategic Rationale
Chief Executive Officer Rajsekhar Datta Roy stated that transforming Sonata into an AI‑native organization is foundational to its growth trajectory and that Rebala’s blend of AI‑startup and IT‑services expertise strengthens the executive team. Rebala added that AI is moving from experimentation to a fundamental competitive differentiator and that his focus will be on building differentiated AI capabilities and platforms with customers and partners, turning AI investments into measurable outcomes and sustained advantage.
Company Profile
Sonata Software is described as a USD 1.2 billion‑plus AI‑first modernization engineering company with nearly 40 years of product‑engineering heritage, powered by its proprietary Platformation™ framework. The firm employs over 6,400 AI engineers who support global delivery across the United States, United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Australia, the DACH region and the Nordics. Sonata maintains deep AI partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce and Snowflake, delivering enterprise velocity to leading companies in the Retail & Manufacturing (RMD), Tech & Telecom (TMT), Healthcare (HLS) and Financial Services (BFSI) sectors.