In his new role, he will drive Ramco’s global growth agenda and accelerate its strategy to become an AI-native enterprise software company, it added.
Sandesh founded Ramco’s Australia & New Zealand business, a market that today stands among the company’s strongest, having anchored it through major customer wins and the build-out of the company’s product and solutions footprint, the company added.
Over his tenure he has carried responsibility across sales and operations, steered the organization through two leadership transitions, and held the company steady through the operational disruption of the COVID-19 period, it added.
Sandesh has lived and worked across India, China and Australia, and brings extensive exposure to business operations across the Asia Pacific region, the company said.
Prior to Ramco, Sandesh held leadership positions at HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra. He has a track record of closing landmark engagements, including deals worth over USD 550 million with leading Australian corporations.
“Over the past several quarters, Ramco has emerged a stronger, more disciplined company – six straight quarters of operational profit are evidence of a genuine turnaround, not a one-time correction,” P.R. Venketrama Raja, Chairman, Ramco Systems, said.
Sandesh has been central to that journey. He understands our customers, our markets and our people, and he has consistently demonstrated the judgement to make difficult decisions and the resilience to see them through. The Board is confident that his appointment as Chief Executive Officer positions Ramco to convert this stability into sustained, profitable global growth, he added.
“Sandesh combines a builder’s instinct with an operator’s rigour. He created our ANZ business from the ground up and then brought that same ownership to the turnaround of the wider company, across customer engagements and operations,” P.V. Abinav Ramasubramaniam Raja, Managing Director, Ramco Systems, said.
As we enter our next phase, our priorities are clear – accelerate global expansion and embed AI at the core of our products and the way we run the business. Sandesh is the right leader to drive both, and I look forward to partnering with him closely, he added.
“It is a privilege to lead Ramco at a defining moment. We have done the hard work of restoring profitability and sharpening execution; the task now is to sustain that rigour and convert our strength into growth at scale,” Sandesh said.
He also listed two priorities.
First, global growth – deepening our presence in established markets and building a world-class go-to-market motion, expanding across our HR & Global Payroll, Aviation, ERP, Logistics and Chia product lines. Second, becoming a truly AI-native company – not bolting AI onto our products, but rebuilding how we design, deliver and operate around it, so that every customer experiences a measurably better outcome, Sandesh noted.
“In a fast-evolving technology landscape, we will do this by building an organisation that is nimble, with a fast-adopting mindset,” he added.
Sandesh is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a CPA from CPA Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Karnatak University, Dharwad.
