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Ashoka Gurujala joins 66degrees as Director of Talent Acquisition to lead AI, Cloud & Data hiring. Hyderabad, Telangana, India, July 2026 - 66degrees has appointed Ashoka Gurujala as Director of Talent Acquisition, where he will lead the company's talent acquisition strategy across Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data, Cloud, and Services. In his new role, he will focus on building high-performing technology teams, strengthening organizational capabilities, supporting digital transformation initiatives, and enabling the company's next phase of growth through strategic hiring and workforce planning. Ashoka joins 66degrees after serving as Global Talent Acquisition & Business Transformation Head - India/USA at The AES Group, where he led business transformation, enterprise talent acquisition, and organizational capability development across India and the United States. He drove large-scale hiring strategies, business transformation initiatives, customer engagement, operational excellence, and talent programs supporting cloud, AI, data engineering, and digital technologies for global enterprise clients. Alongside talent leadership, he also oversaw business operations spanning HR, finance, payroll, administration, governance, and cross-functional business transformation initiatives. Prior to AES Group, Ashoka served as Managing Partner & Director in an independent talent advisory and consulting practice, where he advised organizations on talent strategy, business transformation, leadership hiring, organizational capability building, and consulting solutions aligned with business growth and digital transformation objectives. Earlier, he spent more than twelve years with Wipro Limited, leading talent acquisition across India, the United States, and Canada. During this tenure, he headed North America and India talent acquisition functions, managing large global recruitment teams responsible for high-volume hiring across Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Healthcare, Energy, Utilities, Engineering, Cloud, Cybersecurity, ERP, Analytics, Digital Technologies, Infrastructure Services, and leadership hiring. He successfully led campus hiring, diversity recruitment, executive hiring, contract staffing, and enterprise recruitment programs while consistently delivering large-scale hiring targets across global markets. Before joining Wipro, Ashoka worked with Birlasoft, where he managed end-to-end recruitment across enterprise technology practices including Oracle, Siebel, and Mainframe technologies. He played a key role in scaling critical technology practices and successfully executed large-scale recruitment drives supporting major client engagements. He began his talent acquisition career with Wipro Infotech, where he managed end-to-end recruitment for telecom and technology businesses, partnering closely with business leaders to build large technology teams supporting major telecom transformation projects across India. Ashoka recently completed the Executive Program in Business Management (Executive MBA) from the Indian School of Business (ISB), strengthening his expertise in strategic leadership, finance, marketing, artificial intelligence, data science, economics, and enterprise transformation. He also holds an MBA in Human Resources and Marketing from Osmania University. With nearly two decades of leadership experience spanning talent acquisition, business transformation, digital strategy, organizational capability building, and workforce planning, Ashoka brings deep expertise in helping technology organizations scale through world-class talent while aligning people strategy with business transformation and innovation. 66degrees is an AI-native technology consulting company that helps organizations accelerate digital transformation through Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Data, and Modern Application Engineering. Combining deep technical expertise with AI fluency, the company enables enterprises to modernize operations, transform data into intelligent business solutions, and align technology, people, and processes to drive sustainable growth. Its capabilities span cloud transformation, data engineering, AI solutions, automation, and enterprise modernization, helping organizations compete successfully in an increasingly digital-first economy.

66degrees named 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year for Artificial Intelligence. PR Newswire CHICAGO, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - 66degrees, a leading AI and Data solutions firm, today announced it has received the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award for Artificial Intelligence. This recognition is 66degrees' fourth Partner of the Year distinction, validating the firm's specialized expertise in architecting the Agentic Enterprise and deploying intelligent systems that empower the modern workforce. $1,482,696 Volume Ends on Dec 31, 2027 Loading chart... "Our vision at 66degrees is to shape the future where businesses operate as intelligent enterprises, combining the best of humankind and technological advances. Winning our fourth Google Cloud Partner of the Year award confirms our progress in achieving this vision. This award also recognizes the cutting edge work our teams do day in and day out for our clients across AI, Data, and Cloud. With gratitude, today we pause and celebrate the remarkable people of 66degrees." - Ben Kessler, CEO 66degrees "The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers. We are proud to name 66degrees a 2026 Google Cloud Partner" - Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud Building the Agentic Enterprise with Google Cloud 66degrees earned this recognition by architecting the transformation from static business workflows to the Agentic Enterprise for global organizations across diverse industries. By delivering AI Transformation within core functions including Finance, HR, Marketing, and Supply Chain, 66degrees enabled human talent to collaborate with Agentic systems to drive quantifiable ROI. These transformations turned AI into a primary driver of operational efficiency, workforce productivity, and sustained competitive advantage. Guiding the Complete Transformation Journey 66degrees achieved these results through a suite of solutions designed for the entire transformation journey: Agentic Labs to identify high-impact opportunities, Agent Development Frameworks to accelerate the design of multi-agent systems powered by Google Cloud, and Data and Platform modernization expertise to transform legacy estates to enable AI adoption. This is paired with AI Fluency and change management programs to ensure seamless organizational adoption and architectural readiness. By bridging the gap between raw AI technology and workforce productivity, 66degrees provides clients specialized expertise to build a sustained competitive advantage. "Having spent nearly a decade at Google leading strategic pursuits, I've seen firsthand how technology can shift the trajectory of an organization. At 66degrees, our mission is to turn that potential into reality. This award is a testament to our team's ability to move beyond AI experimentation and architect the 'Agentic Enterprise', where Google Cloud's most advanced systems become foundational teammates for the modern workforce, driving the kind of high-impact ROI that defines industry leaders." - Brian Gregory, CTO 66degrees