The IT Nerd

Anand Sahay has been elevated as the new Global CEO at Xebia, the leading global IT consultancy Dutch firm, now headquartered in US.

Sahay joined Xebia in 2014 as CEO to take the company beyond Netherlands and co-founded Xebia Global Services. He is the force behind extending Xebia’s business into US, UK, Middle East Africa, APAC and ANZ regions in his role as CEO, Anand will set the ground for Xebia’s next level of growth.

Global CEO of Xebia, Sahay, is a leader-entrepreneur. He has a sharp eye for the latest technologies and weaves unique service offerings around them to create innovative service-line products and tap potential markets. Moreover, collaborating with business leaders, he helps them solve critical problems. In his career, he has had exposure to a diverse range of organizations, functional groups and work cultures. He says these experiences and the people have made him the person and business leader that he is today.

Xebia, under Sahay’s stewardship, developed software engineering prowess to cater to the growing demands of global customers for quality software technology. Building on the architecture, engineering and software craftsmanship learned over the years in the Netherlands, he has brought a unique and refreshing blend of quality and scale. Sahay has led Xebia to be distinctive in the world and helped it to stand out from the other software firms globally.

At present, Xebia is more than 5000 -people-strong worldwide, including 3,000+ people across five centers in India. Xebia’s software adroitness covers every critical capability required to bring successful digital transformation programs for customersacross the world.

As an electronics engineer, Sahay started his career at TCS as a software programmer. He later completed his MBA and moved on to take various leadership roles in life. An avid reader and a philanthropist, Anand is committed to giving it back to the society and enabling people and the environment. A significant association includes The Nudge foundation that exists to alleviate poverty, sustainably, collaboratively and scalability. It has three impact streams to tackle the complex issue of poverty from multiple angles – Centre for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (CSDE), Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) & Centre for Rural Development (CRD). Anand is actively involved with The Nudge Foundation and travels across remote villages to be there for the cause. 

Xebia, a leading global IT consultancy and services company, has united with 47 Degrees, a US-based global technology consultancy focused on unlocking business growth by creating assured solutions for complex, mission-critical software. 

47 Degrees has been focused on building and deploying innovative applications for its clients as well as actively engaging in the tech community since 2010. The company offers comprehensive consulting services in functional programming languages and related technologies, like Scala, Kotlin, Spark, Kafka, and Akka. While the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, they have strong footholds in Spain, the United Kingdom, and Colombia.

Its team handles the design, development, and deployment of applications for its clients so that companies can focus on their core business goals. Their engineers—with years of development expertise—coordinate with client teams to provide additional bandwidth and adapt mission-critical workflow.

Functional languages provide significant advantages while building highly scalable and parallelized systems. As the demand for such scalable systems is increasing exponentially among enterprises as well as innovative start-ups worldwide, there is a simultaneous demand for specialized talent that is unfragmented and can support the adoption of functional paradigms.

As a full stack software firm, Xebia is a firm believer in and promoter of functional programming in its solution blueprints. We believe that the consolidation of boutique functional companies can offer enterprises a strong option and build confidence in functional paradigms.

A global leader in IT consulting and digital technology, Xebia who I have written about before is now embarking on an aggressive expansion in Canada. To that end, Vipul Baijal has been tapped to lead Xebia’s North American expansion as their head of the Americas.

It will be interesting to see what Mr. Baijal’s experience does to drive Xebia forward in North America. And what Xebia has in store in the future.