The Kroger Co. announced that Ashok Vemuri has been elected to the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Vemuri is elected to serve until Kroger's annual meeting of shareholders in June 2019. At that time, he will stand for election by the shareholders. Mr. Vemuri is chief executive officer of Conduent. He joined the company as CEO in 2016 as it was preparing for its separation from Xerox in January 2017. Prior to Conduent, he served as president, CEO and a member of the board of directors of IGATE Corporation (now Capgemini). Before IGATE, Mr. Vemuri spent fourteen years in a variety of leadership and business development roles at Infosys, where he joined as a business development manager and rose to serve as a member of the board.