Odisha born Prativa Mohapatra appointed as VP, MD of Adobe India

Bhubaneswar: The United State tech giant Adobe has appointed Odisha born Prativa Mohapatra as the first Vice President as well as the Managing Director for Adobe India, making her the first woman to lead the global software maker’s operations in the country.

Reports said that in this role, she will lead Adobe’s India business across Adobe Experience Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud, reporting to Simon Tate, Adobe’s president for Asia Pacific (APAC).

Prativa has a career span of over 25 years in the technology field. She joined Adobe from tech firm IBM in 2002, where she served as Vice President of digital sales for APAC.

Prior to that, she led sales for IBM India and South Asia where she was responsible for driving revenue for the company’s portfolio of solutions and services. Through her various roles at IBM, she has a wide range of experience. She started her career at the professional services firm PwC India.

Prativa pursued her B.Tech in computer sciences and engineering from Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Rourkela followed by her post-graduation in management at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar where she specialized in Systems and Finance.

Meanwhile, the Alumni Committee of XIMB congratulated Prativa on their official twitter handle and wrote “The Alumni Committee of XIMB congratulates Ms. Prativa Mohapatra an esteemed alumna of batch’94, on being appointed as the VP & MD for Adobe India. She will be the first woman to lead the global software maker’s operations in the country.”