Publicis Sapient Names Rahul Dubey as North America Chief Growth Officer

Publicis Sapient, a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services, today announced Rahul Dubey as North America Chief Growth Officer. In this role, Rahul will lead Publicis Sapient's North America growth team and cross-industry business development efforts to drive sales innovation and expand opportunities across the region. His appointment comes as Publicis Sapient accelerates its people + products model — pairing the firm's AI platforms with deep client expertise to deliver faster, differentiated outcomes at enterprise scale. Dubey will be based in New York and will report into Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz.

Dubey joins Publicis Sapient from Persistent Systems, where he served as Chief Growth Officer and built an entirely new hunting engine that significantly outperformed targets, returned the BFSI business unit to strong growth, and opened new channels across Private Equity, CPG, Retail, and High Tech. During his tenure, he onboarded a portfolio of marquee new logos while reigniting large deals.

Previous roles include senior commercial leadership at Mphasis, where he built the New Customer Acquisition Unit from the ground up and significantly exceeded revenue targets, and at Xoriant, where he owned a large financial services P&L and led the turnaround of major accounts to renewed growth. He is passionate about building high-performing sales teams, scaling new logo acquisition, and unlocking growth in complex, matrixed enterprise accounts. His proven track record of hunting, account expansion, and commercial discipline is a powerful complement to the Publicis Sapient team.

"Enterprises are no longer asking whether to transform with AI — they're asking how fast and with whom," said Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient. "Rahul has spent his career building the kind of hunter-led, account-deepening growth engine we need to meet that demand, and he understands how to translate complex platform capabilities into commercial outcomes. As we scale our people + products model — pairing Sapient Slingshot, Sapient Bodhi and Sapient Sustain with the depth of our teams — Rahul will be central to how we show up for clients, win in the market and define the next chapter of growth in North America."

"What drew me to Publicis Sapient is the rare combination you don't often find in this industry: proprietary AI platforms built on three decades of enterprise context, paired with people who actually know how to put them to work inside the world's most complex businesses," said Dubey. "Clients in North America are navigating real pressure to modernize faster, deploy AI responsibly, and prove value quarter over quarter. That's the conversation I want to be in. I'm here to build the relationships, open the doors, and put our people and products to work on the problems that matter most to our clients."

Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services. With over 30 years of digital business transformation experience, we enable enterprise clients to transform how they operate and serve their customers, unlocking new value and enabling them to thrive in an AI-driven world. Our platforms Sapient Slingshot, Sapient Bodhi and Sapient Sustain use AI built off this deep enterprise context to help organizations modernize their legacy tech systems, build agentic solutions, and automate their IT operations. The combination of our AI platforms and the expertise of our people enables us to deliver faster and more effective outcomes through solutions that are specific to the unique needs of our clients’ businesses, their industries and their customers. Publicis Sapient is the technology hub of Publicis Groupe, uniting 20,000 people worldwide across 28 countries. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.