Home GCC Saudi Arabia Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu on big Saudi push, new data centres Sridhar Vembu speaks to Gulf Business about his company’s launching of two new data centres in Saudi Arabia by Gareth van Zyl March 6, 2024 Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu 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. Tags LEAP Leap 2024 podcast ZOHO You might also like Virtuzone founder: “We’re setting up about 500 companies a month in the UAE” Entrepreneur Mahmoud Bartawi on cooking up a startup success Dubai’s off-plan market a crucial factor to watch, says Firas Al Msaddi ORO24’s Atif Rahman on Dubai’s meteoric ‘875% real estate growth’