Zoom denies China origin, to invest, hire in India

Velchamy Sankarlingam, President of Engineering and Products at Zoom, said India is and will continue to be an important market for Zoom. “We do recognise that as we continue to introduce ourselves to the Indian market, there has been some confusion about the facts as it relates to Zoom. We want to work through these,” said Sankarlingam who joined Zoom in May from enterprise software major VMware.

He said some of the misconceptions are disheartening, especially those about Zoom and China. “Zoom has been clear about its identity: Zoom is a US company, publicly traded on the NASDAQ, founded and headquartered in San Jose, California. And like many global technology companies, Zoom has offices in China operated by subsidiaries of the US parent company,” emphasised Sankarlingam, who spent over nine years at VMware.

Zoom was left stunned last month after the Indian intelligence agencies red-flagged it along with Chinese apps over safety and privacy issues of users.