Google names Nitin Bawankule head of India cloud business

BENGALURU: Google said it had appointed Nitin Bawankule as the country head for its cloud business in India, as the search giant looks at taking a larger share of the booming demand for those services in the country.

Bawankule has been with Google for six years and was previously head of sales for its ecommerce, retail and classifieds and education business. Bawankule will report to Rick Harshman, managing director of Asia Pacific for Google Cloud.

“By 2020, the public cloud services market in India is poised to reach USD 4.10 billion. Business leaders across industries are increasingly adopting cloud technology because they understand it helps solve a number of real challenges - teams work better together, data becomes useful to make smart decisions and companies create new value to stay competitive in a quickly changing economy,” Bawankule said in a statement.


Google recently opened a cloud location in Mumbai as it battles for market share with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure.