{"id":62023,"date":"2019-07-19T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dish-appoints-kannan-alagappan-as-cto\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:46:29","slug":"dish-appoints-kannan-alagappan-as-cto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dish-appoints-kannan-alagappan-as-cto\/","title":{"rendered":"DISH Appoints Kannan Alagappan as CTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dish<\/strong>&nbsp;appointed Kannan Alagappan as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), reporting to DISH President and CEO Erik Carlson. Alagappan has held technology leadership roles with major telecom and cloud services providers, including <strong>Reliance Jio<\/strong>, <strong>Telstra<\/strong>, and <strong>Rackspace<\/strong>.&nbsp;Additionally, Alagappan has worked as a technology consultant for various Fortune 500 companies, including <strong>Comcast<\/strong>, <strong>T-Mobile<\/strong>, and <strong>DISH<\/strong>.&nbsp;He has primarily helped companies implement digital transformations and build technology platforms at scale.<\/p>\n<p>As CTO, Alagappan will lead DISH Technologies, the DISH group that plays an integral role in defining the company\u2019s technology strategy, oversees its software and hardware engineering initiatives, and manages the organization\u2019s broadcast and satellite operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKannan is an incredible strategist, technologist and an inspiring leader,\u201d said Carlson. \u201cAs DISH continues to deliver the best technology experience for our customers, and as we pursue our entry into the wireless industry, I\u2019m confident Kannan\u2019s vision and leadership will prove transformative for our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dish&nbsp;appointed Kannan Alagappan as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), reporting to DISH President and CEO Erik Carlson. Alagappan has held technology leadership roles with major telecom and cloud services providers, including Reliance Jio, Telstra, and Rackspace.&nbsp;Additionally, Alagappan has worked as a technology consultant for various Fortune 500 companies, including Comcast, T-Mobile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}