Rajesh Nambiar

Rajesh Nambiar is President, Digital Business and Technology, and Chairman of Cognizant India. As President, Digital Business and Technology, Rajesh brings together the industry’s most compelling technology vision, strategy, roadmap, capabilities, solutions, partnerships and subject matter expertise into a single integrated powerhouse. As Chairman of Cognizant India, Rajesh enhances relationships with government agencies, chambers of commerce, universities, the media and key policy-making bodies.

Prior to joining Cognizant in November 2020, Rajesh served as Chairman and President of Ciena India, a leading network solutions partner. He joined Ciena from IBM Application Services, where he led $8 billon of data, AI and analytics offerings. He also served as IBM's Global Delivery Leader and led a team of 90,000 through the company’s next generation of globally integrated delivery capability. Before IBM, Rajesh spent over 18 years at Tata Consultancy Services as a Regional Head in the eastern United States.

Rajesh serves on the Executive Council of NASSCOM, the premier trade association of Indian IT and BPO companies. He chairs the Cognizant India Foundation.

Rajesh holds a master’s degree in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He also completed the JLDP, a prestigious leadership program conducted by Fortune 500 CEOs.