Former Infosys president Sandeep Dadlani to join US confectionary major Mars

BENGALURU: Former Infosys president Sandeep Dadlani is joining Mars Inc as chief digital officer, the Unites States based chocolate-maker said.

He will work with Mars' global business segments to drive the company’s digital transformation and bring effectiveness and efficiency to its existing technology platforms.

Dadlani succeeds Chief Information Officer, Vittorio Cretella, who will retire on September 1, 2017.


“Dadlani will bring the power of design thinking, new data analytics capability and automation to accelerate digitization at Mars,” the company said in a statement.

Dadlani was responsible for monetizing Infosys’ new platforms and software. He announced he was leaving the company on Friday for an ‘out-of-this-world’ assignment.