Ipsos' Adarkar Joins i-Genie as Regional Chief Exec

Amit Adarkar has joined i Genie as its India CEO, shortly after stepping down from the same role at Ipsos. He will lead the formal entry of the AI-powered platform into the country, and its expansion across the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

i-Genie was launched three years ago by former Unilever execs Stan Sthanunathan and Paul van Gendt, and already employs more than forty people, delivering insights across more than 25 countries. Presto, its agentic insights layer, delivers instant, data-backed consumer insights by allowing users to ask complex, natural-language questions and receive real-time answers across markets, categories, and integrated customer datasets. The firm raised $7.5m in Series A funding in September last year.

Adarkar announced his departure from Ipsos in August, after more than a decade at the global research group, leading one of its fastest growing global markets. Earlier he held senior leadership roles at MarketProbe, MarketGate Dimensions and Nielsen BASES. At i-Genie he links up with former senior research leaders from Unilever and Coca Cola to help steer the rapidly scaling company and its real time consumer intelligence solutions. India is a hub for the company's client success, engineering, data science and analytics teams.

The appointment closely follows that of CTO George Stoikos, who grew the subscription business of IT services and consulting firm CDW from zero to more than a billion dollars over eight years from 2014.

Trevor Sumner, the company's global CEO, comments: 'Amit's leadership experience across India, APAC and the Middle East, combined with his deep passion for AI driven transformation, will accelerate our momentum as we scale across the region. He will play a critical role in strengthening our global footprint and in helping clients unlock the full value of always on intelligence.'

Web site: www.i-genie.ai .