Chandrasekaran Ramakrishnan

R Chandrasekaran retired as Executive Vice Chairman of Cognizant India. He was one of the professional co-founders of Cognizant in 1994. He had played various leadership roles at Cognizant. He was instrumental in growing Cognizant’s global delivery footprint across the U.S., India, Europe, South America, The Philippines and China, and driving best-in-class delivery excellence at scale.

He was executive sponsor of Cognizant Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Cognizant. He had driven the Foundation’s mission of improving lives of underprivileged sections of the society through focused activities in the areas of education, skill development, healthcare and livelihood.

He was member of the Executive Council at NASSCOM and served as its Chairman during 2014-15. Prior to Cognizant, he was with Tata Consultancy Services where he played a variety of leadership roles, globally.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology (formerly the Regional Engineering College) in Trichy and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy in 2008.