Srinivas Aluri

Bengaluru | June 2026: A prominent sportswear brand, Under Armour, has appointed Madhu Natesan as Vice President and Managing Director of their Global Capability Centre in Bengaluru. Madhu’s GCC leadership experience is strategically aligned to support the brand’s global digital roadmap, with a focus on engineering, data science, AI, and infrastructure capabilities.

While the global athletic and sportswear brand is aggressively scaling up its retail footprint, digital commerce platforms, and backend operations within the Indian consumer market, Madhu will be advancing its market strategy, reinforcing the focus on sustainable commercial expansion, leadership development, and long-term capability building.

Madhu is a strategist in both the multinational retail domain and the GCC ecosystem. He most recently served as the Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Saks Global India, where he guided strategic capability building and organizational scaling. Prior to that, he spent over five years as Director at Neiman Marcus Global Technology Services, where he established and managed large-scale cross-functional teams driving digital and tech transformation. Natesan’s foundational retail operations and business strategy background also includes an expansive, multi-year leadership tenure at Target.

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