Blow to Sikka? Now, Infosys' global head of investment fund quits

Before joining Sikka's team, he was vice president, Office of the CTO at SAP and was a member of the core SAP HANA team.

In another setback to Vishal Sikka’s digital transformation journey at Infosys, Yusuf Bashir, the company’s global head of the $500 million innovation fund, has resigned. This is the third big exit from Sikka’s core team in the last couple of months after Ritika Suri and Sandeep Dadlani. 

The development was first reported by Times of India. 

Bashir, who joined Sikka’s team in early 2015, spearheaded investments in the emerging technology areas such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud in firms such as UNSILO, ideaForge, Trifacta, Waterline Data, Cloudyn, CloudEndure, Whoop, Airviz and TidalScale. 

Before joining Sikka’s team, he was vice president, Office of