{"id":351511,"date":"2025-02-27T19:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=351511"},"modified":"2025-02-27T20:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:33:21","slug":"fanatics-announces-new-digital-sports-innovation-center-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/fanatics-announces-new-digital-sports-innovation-center-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanatics Announces New Digital Sports Innovation Center in Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_351512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351512\" style=\"width: 712px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-351512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fanatics2-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fanatics2-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fanatics2-700x375.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fanatics2-768x411.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fanatics2-785x420.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fanatics2-696x373.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fanatics2-1068x572.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/fanatics2.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthias Spycker, CTO Fanatics Global &amp; Abhishek Dhasmana VP and GM Fanatics India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Appoints Abhishek Dhasmana as Vice President and General Manager<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Fanatics will move into a new, larger office space in HITECH City by 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Will increase its local team from 250 to more than 500 employees within the next two years<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Hyderabad, India, February 27, 2025<\/b> \u2013 Fanatics, a leading global digital sports platform with 22,000 employees across more than 80 locations, has announced strengthening of its leadership, increasing in technical hiring, and expanding its footprint within India.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Fanatics continues to grow and scale its business with technology, data, and the application of AI to drive the company&#8217;s success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">As part of its global expansion and commitment to enhancing the fan experience, Fanatics will double its technical workforce in Hyderabad\u2014growing from 250 to over 500 employees within the next two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In addition to the hiring growth, Fanatics will move into a new, larger office space in HITECH City by 2026, which will be three times the size of its current location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">To lead the Hyderabad office, Fanatics has appointed <strong>Abhishek Dhasmana as Vice President and General Manager.<\/strong> Abhishek joins Fanatics from Indeed, where he held the position of Site Head for the company&#8217;s India Development Center.\u00a0 Before Indeed, Abhishek was the Director of Product Management and Product Marketing with GoDaddy in Hyderabad. He was at Microsoft for nearly 11 years where he held a variety of product management and engineering roles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Abhishek Dhasmana, Vice President and General Manager,<\/b>\u00a0said &#8221; I am honored to join the talented and passionate team at Fanatics, where a love for sports and technology drives innovation. I look forward to working alongside this dynamic group to shape the future of Fanatics by leveraging business, technology, and AI\u2014key pillars of our success. This expansion reinforces Fanatics&#8217; commitment to Hyderabad as a strategic hub for technological advancement and growth&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Matthias Spycher, Interim Chief Technology Officer of Fanatics<\/b>, said, &#8220;At Fanatics, we are committed to building a sustainable and high-performing organization in Hyderabad, with strong leadership that drives high-impact technical projects and develops innovative products. It&#8217;s a great place to grow, and learn. We&#8217;re actively hiring for a variety of technical positions&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In 2018, Fanatics opened its first technology innovation center within Hyderabad, India as part of its commitment to growing its technology, data, and analytics capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The company is committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and maximizing the presence and reach for its hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting &amp; Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Bet and Collect.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appoints Abhishek Dhasmana as Vice President and General Manager Fanatics will move into a new, larger office space in HITECH City by 2026 Will increase its local team from 250 to more than 500 employees within the next two years Hyderabad, India, February 27, 2025 \u2013 Fanatics, a leading global digital sports platform with 22,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37219],"class_list":{"0":"post-351511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-fanatics-announces-new-digital-sports-innovation-center-in-hyderabad"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}