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Gautam Ramdas

Four Days After the Fiscal Year Closed

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Gautam Ramdas — President and Chief Executive Officer, Northern Technologies International Corporation (NTIC)◆Debanjan Saha — Chief Executive Officer, DataRobot◆Ramesh Nuggihalli — President and Chief Executive Officer, Fuel Tech, Inc.◆Sumita Pandit — Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Genpact Limited (NYSE: G)◆Anil Chakravarthy — President, Customer Experience Orchestration & Worldwide Field Operations; CEO-designate (effective 2026-12-01), Adobe Inc.◆Sanjay Chowbey — President & Chief Executive Officer, Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT)◆Srini Gopalan — President & Chief Executive Officer, T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS)◆Santhosh Keshavan — Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Operations Officer, Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA)◆Sudhir Srivastava — Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, SS Innovations International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSII)◆Sumit Singh — Chief Executive Officer, Chewy, Inc. (NYSE: CHWY)◆Vivek Mohindra — Director (appointed 2026-07-08); formerly SVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Dell Technologies Inc., Axon Enterprise, Inc. / Dell Technologies (to April 2026)◆Steve Sanghi — Chair of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, Microchip Technology Incorporated (Nasdaq: MCHP)◆Gautam Ramdas — President and Chief Executive Officer, Northern Technologies International Corporation (NTIC)◆Debanjan Saha — Chief Executive Officer, DataRobot◆Ramesh Nuggihalli — President and Chief Executive Officer, Fuel Tech, Inc.◆Sumita Pandit — Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Genpact Limited (NYSE: G)◆Anil Chakravarthy — President, Customer Experience Orchestration & Worldwide Field Operations; CEO-designate (effective 2026-12-01), Adobe Inc.◆Sanjay Chowbey — President & Chief Executive Officer, Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT)◆Srini Gopalan — President & Chief Executive Officer, T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS)◆Santhosh Keshavan — Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Operations Officer, Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA)◆Sudhir Srivastava — Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, SS Innovations International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSII)◆Sumit Singh — Chief Executive Officer, Chewy, Inc. (NYSE: CHWY)◆Vivek Mohindra — Director (appointed 2026-07-08); formerly SVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Dell Technologies Inc., Axon Enterprise, Inc. / Dell Technologies (to April 2026)◆Steve Sanghi — Chair of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, Microchip Technology Incorporated (Nasdaq: MCHP)◆

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Seven Months, One Interim Label

Debanjan Saha arrived at DataRobot in February 2022 and was interim CEO by July. Whether the permanent job produced a different company, the public record only partly answers.

Two Hundred and Nine Days Between Seats

Radian ended Sumita Pandit's tenure as president and CFO on February 12. Genpact signed her as CFO 203 days later, with a $3 million bonus.

“I am honored to join Vista Outdoor as its new Chief Financial Officer”

— Sudhanshu Priyadarshi · read the profile

From the archive

Six Days Before He Started, the Loss Widened

Fuel Tech named Ramesh Nuggihalli CEO on the day it reported a wider loss and a doubled backlog. His last operating chief's seat lasted 28 months.

One Hundred and Seventy-Five Days to a Name

Adobe's board took 175 days to name a successor to Shantanu Narayen. Anil Chakravarthy gets the job on December 1, with the stock down 18% in 2026.

Minus 1.6 Percent, Then 21.3 Million

Chewy's active customer count went backwards in 2023. Sumit Singh rebuilt it to 21.3 million while a Delaware court examined how the company's owner had built it.

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