Brands
Manyavar’s Mohey signs on Anushka Sharma
MUMBAI: Mohey from the house of Manyavar has signed on Anushka Sharma as their new brand ambassador. The actor will endorse Mohey- an ethnic celebration wear for women, comprising lehengas, sarees, gowns and suits.
She is soon be seen in a new campaign along with Manyavar Brand Ambassador Virat Kohli in a never seen before avataar.
Anushka Sharma is an iconic movie star who symbolizes the contrasts of achievement and grace, global outlook and Indian roots, classy yet contemporary in free spirit of celebrating oneself that naturally personifies the Mohey attitude.
Besides unveiling the new wedding collection, Mohey targets to double its store count in the coming year.
After over 450 Manyavar and Mohey stores across India, USA, Bangladesh, UAE and Nepal – the ambassador-duo are poised to energize the brands like never before.
Ravi Modi, Managing Director, Manyavar says: “We target doubling our Mohey store count to 100 in the coming year. Anushka’s individuality blends with Mohey’s values of celebrating oneself.”
Brands
Naveen Kokkanti promoted to director – devOps at Nasdaq
Tech leader steps up to steer innovation and modernise systems
BENGALURU: Naveen Kokkanti has been elevated to director – devOps at Nasdaq, marking a defining moment in his 14 year journey through the fast evolving world of digital transformation.
Based in Bengaluru, Kokkanti moves into the role after a short but impactful stint as lead devOps engineer at the global exchange operator. In his new position, he will focus on driving innovation, sharpening operational efficiency and reinforcing the organisation’s technology backbone.
For Kokkanti, the promotion reflects more than a change in title. It crowns over a decade of building, migrating and modernising enterprise systems across some of the biggest names in technology and consulting.
Before joining Nasdaq in 2025, he spent four years at Deloitte Consulting as senior consultant, where he worked extensively on large scale cloud and data transformations. His work ranged from migrating legacy data applications to AWS and implementing unity catalog governance frameworks, to designing multi cloud Databricks lakehouse strategies. He was also part of Deloitte’s Databricks alliance core team, contributing to go to market initiatives and publishing technical whitepapers on migration and architecture best practices.
Earlier roles at Virtusa and Infosys saw him lead cloud migrations, design secure infrastructure environments and manage enterprise grade AWS ecosystems. At Infosys, he led a team of engineers while overseeing everything from VPC architecture and IAM policies to disaster recovery, security hardening and cost optimisation.
His career began with hands on infrastructure and support roles at Micro Focus, Cerner Corporation and Dell Technologies, where he developed a strong foundation in systems engineering, virtualisation and enterprise IT operations.
Across roles, a consistent theme emerges. Kokkanti thrives at the intersection of cloud, data and governance. From Terraform and AWS to Databricks and enterprise devOps frameworks, his skillset reflects the growing demand for leaders who can translate complex infrastructure into scalable, secure and business ready platforms.
At Nasdaq, that blend of technical depth and leadership experience is set to play a key role as the organisation continues to evolve its global technology infrastructure. For Kokkanti, the promotion is not just about moving up. It is about building forward.
