--- title: Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead... description: Anthropic appointed Irina Ghose, former Microsoft India managing director with 24 years of experience, to lead its India operations as the company prepares to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-taps-former-microsoft-india-md-to-lead-bengaluru-expansion-mlembharw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic appointed Irina Ghose, former Microsoft India managing director with 24 years of experience, to lead its India operations as the company prepares to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-taps-former-microsoft-india-md-to-lead-bengaluru-expansion-mlembharw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mleMBhARw.png og:image:alt: Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic appointed Irina Ghose, former Microsoft India managing director with 24 years of experience, to lead its India operations as the company prepares to open a Bengaluru office. India is Anthropic's second-largest user base for Claude, with usage heavily focused on technical and software development tasks. The company faces intense competition from OpenAI and others in converting India's billion-plus internet users into revenue, with aggressive pricing strategies becoming common. Ghose will focus on enterprise adoption, developer engagement, and mission-critical use cases, while Anthropic builds out its local team and explores partnerships in a market where telecom giants control critical distribution channels. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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