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Genesys International appoints Nikhil Alulkar as chief executive officer
Former Tech Mahindra India business head to lead AI mapping and global expansion
MUMBAI: Genesys International is putting a new chief at the helm as it looks to turn its mapping capabilities into a broader spatial intelligence business. Genesys International Corporation Limited has appointed Nikhil Alulkar as chief executive officer.
Alulkar joins Genesys after serving as head, India business and senior vice-president at Tech Mahindra. He will lead the company’s operations, business execution and growth as Genesys looks to expand beyond its established government business and accelerate adoption among enterprises.
His mandate will include scaling Genesys’ AI-native mapping and Digital Twin platforms, expanding its enterprise and B2B presence, strengthening government and institutional relationships and building the operating structure needed to support international expansion.
The appointment comes as the company enters what it describes as a new phase of growth. Genesys has invested over the past several years in high-precision geospatial content, mapping technologies, survey infrastructure and Digital Twin capabilities. It now plans to use that foundation across a broader set of industries and applications.
These include infrastructure, mobility, utilities, telecommunications, urban planning, land administration, asset intelligence and digital consumer applications.
Genesys chairman and managing director Sajid Malik said the company is moving beyond traditional mapping towards making the physical world “computable”, with geospatial technology increasingly becoming an intelligence layer for the physical economy.
Malik said Alulkar’s experience in building and scaling enterprise technology businesses, developing customer ecosystems and operating across government and enterprise markets would be relevant as Genesys expands its addressable market.
For Alulkar, the opportunity comes as India simultaneously scales its physical and digital infrastructure. He said the convergence of the two is creating a significant opportunity for spatial intelligence.
Genesys International chief executive officer Nikhil Alulkar said the next phase of digitisation would increasingly involve turning physical assets such as roads, buildings, land parcels, utilities and infrastructure into digital objects that systems can understand and analyse.
He added that high-quality geospatial content would increasingly serve as foundational infrastructure rather than simply another dataset.
Alulkar also highlighted Genesys’ existing capabilities in creating and maintaining high-precision, survey-grade geospatial content at scale. He said his focus would be on productising this foundation, extending it to more industries and customers, and taking the company’s capabilities to global markets.
The company’s strategy is centred on moving from a mapping-focused business to a broader spatial intelligence platform. The aim is to help governments and enterprises understand, model and make decisions about the physical world using high-precision, dynamic and AI-enabled geospatial data.
Genesys has more than 2,000 professionals and a nationwide network of sensors. The company describes itself as an advanced mapping technology player serving government, enterprise and consumer applications.
With Alulkar taking charge, Genesys is now looking to make its maps do more than show the way, using them as the foundation for a wider digital understanding of the physical world.
