Sage Names Krish Vitaldevara CPO, Anand Swaminathan CSO

Sage appointed Krish Vitaldevara as chief product officer and Anand Swaminathan as chief strategy officer. Vitaldevara will join the executive team on May 18 and Swaminathan will begin on June 15. Both executives will be based at Sage’s office in San Jose, California.

Vitaldevara will oversee Sage’s global product and platform strategy, manage the company’s innovation roadmap and delivery, and drive the expansion of its AI-enabled products and platform capabilities. Swaminathan will work with the executive leadership team to set corporate strategy, establish growth priorities and shape Sage’s long-term value-creation agenda.

Vitaldevara has more than 25 years of experience building AI-first platforms and products and holds more than 30 patents covering distributed systems, trust and safety, and anomaly detection. He joins from Salesforce, where he served as general manager and executive vice president and led the integration of products, people and processes after Salesforce’s acquisition of Informatica. He has also held senior roles at NetApp, Google and Microsoft.

Swaminathan joins from McKinsey, where he served as a senior partner advising boards and management teams on AI transformation, technology-enabled growth and enterprise change. He previously held senior positions at Accenture Digital, where he helped scale global operations and supported growth across strategy, data, AI, cloud and digital product development.

Steve Hare, CEO of Sage, welcomed the hires, calling them “proven leaders with deep experience building and scaling world-class products and businesses,” and added that their appointments reflect the company’s investment in innovation and growth.

Vitaldevara described joining Sage at an important point for the business, saying the company has “a unique purpose, a strong customer focus and culture, and a compelling opportunity to lead in intelligent, trusted solutions for small and medium-sized businesses,” and added he looks forward to evolving the product portfolio to deliver impact for customers.

Swaminathan described Sage as having a clear strategy and a strong market position and added he is “thrilled to join the business and to help shape the next phase of growth, building on Sage’s strengths and ensuring we continue to create long-term value for customers, colleagues and shareholders.”

The appointments add senior product and strategy expertise to Sage’s executive team as the company continues to invest in AI-enabled products and platform capabilities and pursues growth in its core small and medium-sized business markets.