Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S. Named to U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum Board of Directors
- Since taking over the IT services company in January 2023, he has been on ensuring sustainable growth and prioritizing long-term shareholder value.
The U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) has named Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S. to its board of directors. The Indian American has experience across digital transformation, traditional technology and engineering services, data and analytics, cloud and infrastructure, and consulting. Since taking over in January 2023, Ravi’s focus at Cognizant has been on ensuring sustainable growth and prioritizing long-term shareholder value. He sets the strategic direction of the company and has inculcated a strong client-first culture at all levels.
USISPF President and CEO, Dr. Mukesh Aghi described Kumar as “a doyen in the tech industry and a foremost thought leader who has unparalleled insights on the dynamic and fast-changing nature of the tech sector.”
In a statement, Kumar said he is “honored to join the USISPF Board of Directors. Noting that 70 percent of Cognizant’s nearly 350,000 employees live in India,, he said he “believes that their work is the critical cog on the tech talent wheel that will help drive economic success for both countries. This is the mission to which the USISPF has dedicated itself and I am thrilled to help author the story of our nations’ mutual success.”
Prior to Cognizant, Kumar served as president of Infosys from 2016 to 2022, where he led the global services organization across all industry segments and served as chairman of the Board of Infosys BPM Ltd. Previously, he was the group head for the Insurance, Healthcare, and Cards and Payments unit, and led the Global Delivery organization where he built the Oracle and CRM practices.
Before joining Infosys, he served in positions of increasing responsibility at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cambridge Technology Partners, Oracle and Sapient (now Publicis Sapient). The early part of his career was spent as a nuclear scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center of India.
He is a member of the board of directors of TransUnion and the board of directors for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is also on the board of governors of the New York Academy of Sciences
He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Shivaji University and an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, India.