India's Critical Role: Flexera's CTO on Strategic Growth and Talent

As the pace of digital transformation speeds up, Flexera is investing even more into India, in particular as a strategic hub for innovation, product development, and customer success.

- Aanchal Ghatak

Flexera's Chief Technology Officer, Brian Shannon, shares reflections on how we have redefined and rethought our view of India, what makes India a good opportunity for Flexera, and the way the India GCC is contributing to Flexera's global FinOps and cloud cost optimization strategy.

How has Flexera's perception of India's strategic importance evolved in recent years?

What specific factors are driving this increased focus? Flexera's perception has changed greatly in recent years regarding India's strategic importance to the business. Not only is the talent level where it needs to be to help drive strategic initiatives important to the business, but the full complement of roles exists to make it all happen - from support to quality to engineering to product management to UX. Full stack teams that own business-critical outcomes can now fully take ownership and drive their success.

In your view, what unique advantages does India offer to Flexera's global operations and innovation strategy?

One unique advantage is the support of customers in multiple time zones around the world. We have large cohorts of customers in North America and Europe while our presence in Asia is growing. The team in India can support all of these regions.

Beyond engineering, in what other areas is Flexera leveraging the talent and expertise available in India? Are we seeing growth in areas like research, product management, or customer success?