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Sabre names Vish Saoji CTO

By TechTaffy Desk

Sabre  has appointed Vish Saoji as chief technology officer. Mr. Saoji will be responsible for executing Sabre’s technology strategy as the company moves to a more SaaS/Cloud native technology environment.

Mr. Saoji will join Sabre from GE Healthcare Digital, where he was CTO for Software Engineering.  Prior to that, he held engineering and management positions at GE Digital, EMC, and Oracle.

[Image courtesy: Sabre]

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