66degrees Appoints Tanwir Danish to Lead Data & AI with Focus on IP Accelerators, Global Agentic Teams, and Vertical Scale

CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 66degrees, a leading AI, data, and cloud consultancy, today announced the appointment of Tanwir Danish as Executive Vice President, Global Head of Data & AI. This strategic addition to the leadership team accelerates 66degrees' mission to guide global enterprises beyond AI experimentation to enterprise transformation that reimagines the future of work with human-centered AI.

Tanwir Danish brings over 20 years of executive experience leading global data, AI, and product organizations, with a track record of driving digital transformation and profitable growth across the full consumer lifecycle. Most recently, Tanwir served as Global Solutions and AI Officer within Dentsu's Global Data & Technology division, where he led data & technology solutions and commercial AI strategy, developing Agentic AI workflows to reimagine ideation, planning, and execution of advertising, marketing, and CXM programs, all powered by scaled data and AI/ML platforms. Prior to that, as Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Sutherland Global Services, he managed the Data & Analytics book of business, launched CX, financial services, and healthcare accelerators, and built a global data and AI/ML organization delivering digital transformation for Fortune 1000 clients. Prior to Sutherland, he commercialized innovative decision-intelligence products at PE-backed Neustar and VC-funded MarketShare.

Reinforcing Leadership in Agentic AI and Scalable Execution

The appointment comes as 66degrees cements its position as a market leader in data and AI transformation, realizing significant 2025 growth in complex data transformations, agentic AI build outs, CCAI/CES transformations, and complex analytics transformations. Danish will lead the firm's largest and fastest growing practice area, the Data and AI practice, as 66degrees continues to evolve how it delivers in order to create data and AI solutions at clients that create tangible ROI.

"I am thrilled to welcome Tanwir Danish to our leadership team at this critical time for 66degrees. We are at an inflexion point in data and AI where how our clients are driving transformation is as important as what they are transforming," shared Ben Kessler, CEO of 66degrees. "Tanwir's deep experience in delivering with IP Accelerators, delivering with global agentic teams, and building vertical-focused solutions will help accelerate our clients' speed to value and strengthen our leadership in key verticals. Moreover, as we see a growing need from our clients for AI fluency, Tanwir's experience in solution adoption will be influential as we expand our change management capabilities."

The 66degrees Methodology: A Perpetual Innovation Engine for ROI

Danish's leadership will help drive 66degrees' proven methodology, which is centered on creating a perpetual innovation engine for clients, structured around strategic pillars that ensure speed, global scale, and sustainable cultural adoption:

• Accelerate Transformation with IP Accelerators: Utilizing 66degrees' proprietary IP Accelerators to dramatically simplify and speed up complex data and application migrations, immediately reducing Time-to-Value (TTV) and foundational project risk.
• Scale Solutions with Global Agentic Delivery Teams: Deploying highly efficient Agentic Delivery teams that combine the best of AI Agents with 66degrees experts from both hemispheres, ensuring accelerated project delivery and continuous, follow-the-sun support based on superior tooling and approaches.
• Deliver Transformation with Modular Vertical Solutions: Applying deep AI/ML and data expertise across key verticals (Healthcare, Retail, Financial Services) by leveraging modular, accelerated ontology solutions that enable rapid deployment and seamless adaptation as client models shift toward agent-based services.
• Sustain Performance through Change Management: Embedding change management expertise directly into the transformation process to build AI fluency and cultural readiness, ensuring continuous relevance, and empowering the workforce of the future.

"I am thrilled to join 66degrees as enterprises accelerate their transition from AI experimentation to scaled, real-world business impact," said Tanwir Danish. "66degrees' proven expertise in enterprise cloud data, AI, and App modernization puts us in a unique position. We will lead the industry by partnering with organizations to harness agentic AI to fundamentally reimagine business workflows, unlocking significant gains in productivity, decision-making, and growth."

About 66degrees

66degrees is a leading Google Cloud partner empowering organizations to thrive in the age of AI. We guide enterprises through their transformation journey by combining unparalleled technical mastery with a solutions-first mindset, ensuring complex data and AI projects deliver tangible, quantifiable business outcomes. Our unique methodology combines scalable foundations with high-velocity execution, guaranteeing our clients achieve a truly intelligent and profitable enterprise.

SOURCE 66degrees