Agricultural technology leader, AGCO opens Bangalore centre

26th October 2022
Agricultural technology leader, AGCO opens Bangalore centre
From left: AGCO execs at the Bangalore centre inauguration: Seth Crawford (Senior Vice President and General Manager, Precision Ag and Digital, Global product Management), Ivory Harris (SVP, Chief Human Resource Officer, HR), Barry O’ Shea (Vice President, Global Customer Support) and Daniel Zapf (Vice President & CIO, IT)

Bangalore,  October 26, 2022:  Worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural machinery and precision agri technology, AGCO Corporation, Your Agriculture Company  has inaugurated its Digital Capability Centre (DCC) in Bangalore
The DCC will focus on augmenting AGCO's IT and digital capabilities to deliver innovative, farmer-focused solutions. The DCC has been actively hiring highly experienced technology talent from across India who will collaborate with AGCO teammates around the world to deliver these leading solutions.
Said Daniel Zapf, AGCO’s Vice President and Chief information Officer: “We are excited to leverage the great talent India has to offer to help the world’s farmers sustainably feed our world.  We are confident that our digital capability centre in India will help us incubate and rapidly scale the best technology talent for AGCO.”
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP (Deloitte India) was chosen by AGCO to provide end-to-end support in the creation and rapid ramp-up of the DCC. Speaking about the journey, Ravi Mehta, Partner, Deloitte India, said “It has been an exciting and fast-paced journey from the time AGCO engaged Deloitte India to set-up its Digital Capability Centre (DCC) in Bengaluru. We collaborated with the AGCO leadership to build a fully functional, state-of-the-art DCC in just a few months. This is a key milestone for AGCO and we are thrilled to be part of it.”