Sonata Software has appointed Hariprasad Rebala as Chief AI Officer, strengthening its leadership team as the technology services company expands its focus on artificial intelligence-led transformation and enterprise adoption.
In his new role, Rebala will be responsible for shaping Sonata Software’s artificial intelligence strategy and strengthening the company’s AI capabilities across its portfolio. His mandate will include driving AI-led transformation, developing solutions and helping enterprises move artificial intelligence initiatives from experimentation towards deployment at scale.
The appointment comes as IT services companies increasingly build dedicated AI leadership teams to address growing enterprise demand for generative AI, agentic systems, automation and data-driven transformation.
Rebala brings more than two decades of experience across artificial intelligence, data, analytics, cloud technologies and digital transformation. His career has included leadership roles focused on helping organisations modernise technology infrastructure and adopt emerging digital capabilities.
Before joining Sonata Software, Rebala held senior roles at Accenture, where his work included data and AI transformation initiatives for enterprise clients. His experience spans strategy, architecture, technology implementation and large-scale transformation programmes across industries.
At Sonata Software, his role will extend across the company's AI strategy, including the development of intellectual property, solutions and accelerators that can be applied to enterprise use cases. He is also expected to work with business teams and customers on the adoption of AI across operational and technology environments.
The appointment aligns with Sonata Software's broader AI-first positioning. The company has been building capabilities around generative AI and other emerging technologies while integrating them with cloud, data, enterprise applications and digital engineering services.
Sonata has also been developing its Harmoni.AI framework, which is positioned as a responsible-first approach to enterprise generative AI adoption. The framework is designed to support businesses across areas including AI strategy, governance, technology selection and implementation.
The company has previously highlighted responsible AI as an important component of enterprise deployment, particularly as organisations move beyond pilot projects and begin embedding generative and agentic AI into business processes.
Rebala's appointment gives Sonata a dedicated senior executive responsible for coordinating this AI agenda as demand for the technology expands across sectors.
His role also comes as enterprise AI moves into a new phase. Companies are increasingly looking beyond standalone generative AI tools towards systems that can connect with existing enterprise data, applications and workflows. Agentic AI, which can perform multi-step tasks with varying levels of autonomy, has consequently become another area of investment for technology services providers.
For Indian IT services companies, this transition is creating demand for specialised capabilities spanning AI models, data infrastructure, cloud computing, governance and application development.
Sonata Software operates across sectors including retail, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and technology, media and telecommunications. Its services portfolio spans cloud and data modernisation, Microsoft technologies, digital engineering, enterprise systems and artificial intelligence.
The appointment of Rebala places responsibility for AI strategy under dedicated leadership as Sonata seeks to integrate the technology more deeply across its services and enterprise transformation engagements.
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