Hiranandani Group’s Yotta Infrastructure signs up former Reliance Jio executive as CIO

The Hiranandani Group-owned managed data center service provider Yotta Infrastructure Solutions has appointed former Reliance Jio Infocomm official Manish Israni as chief information officer (CIO) and head of information technology (IT) operations and engineering.

In his new role, Israni will lead core engineering and research and development of various IT services which Yotta plans to launch, the company said in a statement. He will lead a team of over 150 professionals to manage IT operations and oversee delivery. 

Israni has over 25 years of experience in IT Infrastructure and hyperscale data centers for technology enterprises, financial institutions and telecom companies. Before joining Yotta Infrastructure, Israni led the core IT infrastructure, application design and deployment for Reliance Industries arm Reliance Jio’s data centers. 

Earlier, he worked with Vodafone India, IBM India, JP Morgan Chase and Company, Infosys and HCL.

“Manish’s domain knowledge in IT operations outsourcing and IT infrastructure combined with his vast experience in driving large scale digital transformation projects will play a key role in Yotta’s success in the IT services segment,” Sunil Gupta, CEO and managing partner at Yotta, said.

“As he joins our team, we hope to deliver advanced infrastructure solutions to our customers and strengthen our capabilities. In days to come you will hear more of how Yotta will use its expertise in providing innovative services using futuristic technologies including AI and ML,” Gupta added.

Yotta, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Hiranandani Group, provides data management services and operates large-scale hyper density data centre parks in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Chennai. It offers hyper-density, hyper-scalable data centre and colocation solutions to enterprises along with supporting managed technology solutions, hybrid multi cloud, connectivity and security services.