Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu on big Saudi push, new data centres

Enterprise software firm Zoho has become a behemoth of a technology company, expanding out of its base in India to the rest of the world.

In the space of 27 years, the company has grown to over 15,000 employees and over $1bn in revenue.

And at LEAP 2024 in Riyadh, the company’s renowned CEO, Sridhar Vembu, also announced two new data centres in Jeddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Interestingly, 83 per cent of its local team in the Kingdom consists of Saudi nationals.

In the interview, Vembu tells us more about why and how Zoho is ramping up its operations in Saudi Arabia.