Dec. 4, 2025

Brookings-based Daktronics Inc. has announced its next CEO.

Ramesh Jayaraman will become president and CEO on Feb. 1, as well as becoming a member of the board of directors. At that time, former chairman, president and CEO Reece Kurtenbach will step down from the board. Brad Wiemann will continue to serve as interim president and CEO until Jan. 31.

Jayaraman has more than 25 years of experience, most recently serving as senior vice president and Americas integration leader for Bosch Home Comfort.

During his tenure at Bosch, Jayaraman held several senior leadership roles across the company’s energy and building technologies portfolio, driving major strategic initiatives across business units.

Earlier in his career, he led the Asia Pacific business for Harman Professional Solutions, served as managing director for Ariston Thermo Group’s APAC operations and held a series of commercial, operational and strategy roles at Tyco/ADT across the U.S., China, India and broader Asia Pacific. He began his career in consulting and business analysis before moving into operational leadership. He holds an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.

Jayaraman brings “a strong track record of driving transformational change, delivering significant organic growth and successfully building high-performing, solution-oriented teams,” according to a statement from Daktronics.

“Throughout his career, he has led large-scale businesses and global teams through periods of major strategic shifts, enhancing financial and operational performance while leading enterprise-wide value-creation initiatives. His career has spanned across technology-driven industrial sectors, integrated solutions and global manufacturing and services businesses.”

Jayaraman said he is “humbled and excited” by the opportunity to lead Daktroncis into its next chapter of growth.

“I’ve been well aware of Daktronics since my time at Harman International as a world-class business that sets the industry standard through the breadth and quality of its offerings, its exceptional customer service and its product innovation and manufacturing excellence,” he said. “I look forward to building on these strengths and working alongside our team to position Daktronics for long-term success.”

Jayaraman “has extensive experience across international markets in building large and effective system integrator channels and in accelerating growth,” Daktronics chairman Andrew Siegel said.

“We believe this diversified history of leading significant change at large-scale industrial technology organizations is the right leadership profile as our transformation gains steam.”

Daktronics reincorporated from South Dakota to Delaware earlier this year. The company will report second quarter earnings next week. Its first quarter results included top-line growth in net sales of 27 percent compared with the previous quarter and down 3 percent compared with a year ago.