Pankaj Mitra, a founding team member at Infosys Ventures, the corporate venturing fund founded by the IT services provider Infosys, has become a US-based director at networking technology producer Cisco.
Mitra will focus on investments and mergers and acquisitions for Cisco in India, the former through its corporate venture capital arm, Cisco Investments.
Before joining Infosys in 2015, Mitra had spent two years as senior manager for new products at cloud technology producer VMware, developing its hosted cloud services and subscription-based business lines.
During his time at Infosys, Mitra led investments in ANSR, Whoop, IdeaForge, Stellaris Ventures and been a board observer at Waterline Data Science, TidalScale and Airviz.
Infosys has been undergoing changes in its corporate venturing activities following the departure of its head, Ritika Suri, in September 2017.