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By Nivedita Bhattacharjee MUMBAI (Reuters) – Vishal Sikka is equally comfortable designing cutting-edge software as he is negotiating in the boardroom, skills the new chief executive of Infosys Ltd will need to turn around a company that was once the poster child of Indias $108 billion IT services industry. Sikka, a former senior executive at German software giant SAP AG, takes over as Indias second largest IT services exporter struggles to retain staff and market share. Employees at SAP and business associates told Reuters that Sikka was seen as the bridge between the brains – the IT engineers that helped him create the flagship HANA program and the besuited executives that spearheaded product sales globally. He was also SAPs first chief technology officer.