Who is Anand Varadarajan? Starbucks appoints Indian national as chief technology officer

Starbucks said connected Friday it appointed an Indian nationalist Anand Varadarajan arsenic its caller Chief Technology Officer, effectual January 19. The determination supports CEO Brian Niccol’s propulsion for a tech revamp successful stores to marque labour much efficient.

Varadarajan volition regenerate Deb Hall Lefevre, who stepped down successful September, aft which Starbucks named Ningyu Chen arsenic interim CTO.CEO of Starbuck shared the connection online, saying, "I’m arrogant to stock that Anand Varadarajan volition articulation america arsenic enforcement vice president and CTO, starting January 19. He’ll beryllium portion of the Executive Leadership Team, pb the Starbucks Technology organization, and volition study straight to me.""Outside of work, he’s an avid runner aiming to implicit each 7 World Marathon Majors. He’s besides a java enthusiast and starts astir days with a gangly latte oregon brewed coffee, followed by an bid of Starbucks ovum bites for lunch," helium added.Who is Anand Varadarajan? Varadarajan joins from Amazon, wherever helium spent 19 years heading the exertion and proviso concatenation operations for its worldwide market business. He’s besides held bundle engineering roles astatine Oracle and worked for respective startups.

Earlier successful his career, Varadarajan was a Senior Software Engineer astatine Viquity Inc. (1999–2001), wherever helium designed guaranteed transportation protocols for B2B proviso concatenation messaging, including afloat protocol stacks for RosettaNet.Starbucks posted its archetypal 4th of gains successful comparable income aft astir a twelvemonth and a fractional successful precocious October, arsenic the institution started to spot immoderate returns from Niccol’s extended turnaround efforts successful the United States.Varadarajan holds a Master of Science successful Computer Science from the University of Washington and a Master’s grade successful Civil Engineering from Purdue University. Anand earned his undergraduate grade from the Indian Institute of Technology.