Virtusa Corporation is a global provider of Digital Business Transformation, Digital Engineering, and Information Technology (IT) outsourcing services that accelerate its clients’ journey to their Digital Future.

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Amit Bajoria is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Virtusa Corporation and is responsible for Business finance, Controllership, Internal audit, Financial Planning and Analysis. He has extensive experience in deal structuring, driving levers for operating margin, financial planning, M&A integration, driving cash flows and setting up strong processes.

Before joining Virtusa, Amit spent 15 years in leadership roles at Wipro, most recently as Senior Vice President - Finance & Global Controller, where he was responsible for deal structuring, financial reporting, Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, financial controls, and merger and acquisition activities. He has overall 21 years of experience in Wipro with the design and implementation of global finance activities.

Amit graduated from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and is a qualified chartered accountant.

Amit Bajoria

As the EVP and Global Head – Technology Service Lines, Venkatesan (Venky) defines and executes the Technology Transformation charter at Virtusa. His role encompasses services line definitions, competency build-outs, talent transformation, and operating model implementations.

Venky has 25+ years of experience in technology and operations services, with a strong background in Financial Services. His expertise spans primarily around scaling segments of businesses in technology services exponentially. In his last role at Cognizant, he led global delivery for the Insurance practice.

He has vast experience managing global clients and has expertise in servicing clients across North America, Europe, and Asia, both in delivery and commercial roles. His ability to set up teams for strong collaboration across delivery and practice has produced outstanding results in growing business segments.

Venkatesan Vijayaraghavan

Ramaswamy P V is the current CIO at [Virtusa](/org/virtusa). Ramaswamy has previously worked as the Vice President & Global SAP Practice Head at [Mphasis](/org/mphasis), an HP Company, from November 2009 to November 2015. There, they were responsible for heading the Global SAP Practice, including delivery, competency, solutioning, Revenue & P&L targets, and pre-sales. From July 2008 to October 2009, they worked as the ERP Practice Head at AIG Systems Solutions, where they defined SAP based Global template solutions, set up corporate governance processes, and aided business transformation in close collaboration with Business heads. Ramaswamy also defined strategies for global implementation and roll-outs, set up Center of Excellence for support SAP systems across countries, and owned financial IT budgets. Prior to that, they worked as the Vertical Practice Manager - SAP Practice at Siemens Information Systems Ltd from April 1998 to June 2008. Before Siemens, they worked as the Assistant Manager (F&A) and IT at Steel Authority of India Limited from January 1991 to December 1998.

Ramaswamy P V is a qualified AICWAI and ACS. Ramaswamy has a Masters in Accountancy and Costing from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and a Masters in Law, Accountancy and Finance from The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Ramaswamy also has a SAP certification from SAP and a Computer certification from NIIT Institute.

Ramaswamy P V works with Sundararajan Narayanan - EVP, Chief People Officer, Ashish Devalekar - EVP & Managing Director, Europe & Middle East, and Ram Meenakshisundaram - CTO. Ramaswamy P V reports to Santosh Thomas, CEO.

Ramaswamy P V

Mallesh Kalary heads Virtusa’s Healthcare and Life Sciences business unit. He is responsible for defining business strategy, driving sales growth and business operations, and managing overall P&L.

Mallesh has over 26 years of experience in the IT Industry. He has played several key leadership roles, managing large and high-growth portfolios across industries and markets. He had also led the integration of large-scale acquisitions in the US and Europe. He has deep experience in the Healthcare industry and has managed strategic client portfolios across the US and Europe.

Prior to joining Virtusa, Mallesh was the Healthcare Midwest Business Head at Cognizant. He was responsible for growing market share and managing large Healthcare client portfolios. As the Country Manager and Managing Director, he led the rapid expansion of business in Germany and enhanced brand and local delivery capabilities.  

Mallesh has a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from NIT Calicut, India.

Mallesh Kalary

Praveen Vijayanarayanan

Sundararajan Narayanan is currently the EVP and Chief People Officer at [Virtusa](/org/virtusa). Prior to this, they served as the Senior Director of Human Resources at [Virtusa](/org/virtusa) from June 2010 to June 2012. Before that, they were with Polaris Software Lab from January 2005 to May 2010, where they served as Vice President and EMEA HR Head. Sundararajan started their career with Polaris Software Lab in 1996, serving as Head of Human Resources until 2008.

Sundararajan Narayanan has a bachelors in computer science from the University of Madras and an Innovation & Operational Excellence certification from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Sundararajan Narayanan reports to Santosh Thomas, CEO. Some of their coworkers include Mallesh Kalary - EVP & Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Americas, Ram Meenakshisundaram - CTO, and Ashish Devalekar - EVP & Managing Director, Europe & Middle East.

Sundararajan Narayanan

Vikram S. Pandit is currently the Director at [Virtusa](/org/virtusa). Vikram has previously worked as a Senior Consultant and a Senior Financial Analyst. Vikram has also worked as an Articled Assistant. Vikram has experience in managing analyst teams using JIRA, presentations to Business owners, and has basic knowledge in SQL, Tableau and VBA. Vikram is also proficient in Advanced Excel.

Vikram S. Pandit is a Chartered Accountant and has a degree in B.COM (Hons.) from Jadavpur University. Vikram also has a Diploma in International Financial Reporting Standards from ACCA. Vikram is also certified from ACCA in Diploma in IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and from Indian Institute of Banking and Finance in Diploma in Banking and Finance.

Vikram S. Pandit

Midhun Araja

Darshana Pai heads Global Delivery Governance and strategy function at [Virtusa](/org/virtusa). The charter for this function is to create next-gen delivery platform powered by tools, automation and predictive analytics to achieve business goals. This scalable platform will help organization to deliver solutions to global customers with speed, quality and predictability. Delivery governance focuses on creating and auditing controls to ensure robust risk mitigation strategy.

Prior to this role, Darshana was heading [Virtusa](/org/virtusa)’s Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Business unit for Americas, Europe and Rest of World regions. She was responsible for enhancing customer experience through delivery excellence, employee engagement and growth of this SBU. She led a large team of professionals across delivery centers in Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and onsite client locations. She also has extensive experience in running complex business and technology transformation programs delivering business outcomes to customers.

Darshana Pai

Sanjay Deshpande heads the Banking & Financial Services business, and is responsible for the overall P&L management, business growth strategy and execution across the Americas, excluding key strategic accounts.

With over two decades of his experience in the Financial Technology, Telecom and ICT space, Sanjay has successfully established and grown businesses across Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa.

In his previous role – Sanjay served as the partner and head of business development at [Polaris](/org/polaris) for Americas & Europe. Prior to this, he was the chief sales officer for [Polaris](/org/polaris) Americas where he successfully grew the business with the key clients across North America. Sanjay is also recognized for his significant contribution in establishing and growing [Polaris](/org/polaris)’ Intellect suite of Universal Banking Products business (Intellectual Property) across Canada, Middle East & Africa.

Sanjay Deshpande

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Dominic Carrozza

Sunny Bathla heads the Emerging & Insurance business, and is responsible for the overall P&L management, business growth strategy and execution across the Americas.   Sunny has over two decades of experience in Insurance (P&C , Group Benefits, and Life), Manufacturing, Retail, and running an integrated global delivery and sales teams driving long term growth. 

In his previous role – Sunny founded OSB Consulting which was focused on driving technology transformation across the Insurance Industry.  OSB Consulting was later acquired by Virtusa 2013 and Sunny has been growing in Virtusa since then taking on various leadership roles to drive Virtusa’s growth across multiple industries in the Digital and Cloud Space.   

He holds a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Seton Hall Universities Stillman School of Business and serves on the board of entrepreneurial studies.

Sunny Bathla

Sumit Kaushik heads the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Services in the West Coast and is responsible for overall P&L management, business growth strategy and execution.

In a career spanning two decades, he has been instrumental in creating large accounts and partnerships. He has been responsible for creating new service lines, unique business models and entry into new geographic markets. 

Sumit started his career as a software engineer developing software product for industrial automation and business applications. He continues to invest his time in tracking and analyzing newer technologies and trends impacting different industries. He is passionate about cyber safety and wellness for kids and students.

Sumit Kaushik

Raymond is currently leading Virtusa’s Global Alliances and Partners, Cloud Sales and Large Deals pursuits. Since joining Virtusa in 2019, Raymond has been responsible for our Emerging Business segment which includes multiple verticals but not limited to Manufacturing, Oil, Gas, Utilities and CPG and Retail. With immediate success in that Business Unit he was then promoted to his current role.

Prior to joining Virtusa, Raymond spent 7 years at TATA Consultancy Services, a $21B IT Services and Consulting firm as the Head of Public Sector, Defense and Education. He also spent several successful years at Xerox/ACS where his last role was the Vice President and General Manager for Financial Services & Insurance. Raymond started his career with Hagerty Consulting and Booz Allen Hamilton. He has his undergraduate from Syracuse University and Master of Economics from their Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. 

Raymond Hennings

Sanjeev Gulati leads Virtusa’s Strategic Initiatives, such as Business Transformation, M&A integrations, and other key transformational initiatives.

In his previous role at Virtusa, Sanjeev led Digital Transformation initiatives for the Americas and provided leadership and direction to the domain and technical capability-building initiatives and the “Go To Market” strategy. He also led the Business Consulting team. Prior to that role, Sanjeev was the P&L owner of Virtusa’s largest Strategic Business Unit.

Prior to Virtusa, Sanjeev had a 17-year-long association with Polaris, where he was Head of Business for the Americas, responsible for the business in Canada, the USA, Mexico, and South America. Prior to this, Sanjeev was Global Account Director for Polaris’ largest Banking and Financial Services client.

Before joining Polaris, Sanjeev worked with companies such as Madura Coats (Coats Viyella), National Grid, and National Power (UK) in roles as diverse as Marketing & Product Management, Consulting, and Business Strategy.

Sanjeev holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Sanjeev Gulati

Frank Palermo has over 20 years of global experience as a successful technology executive, with broad-based skills including business consulting, strategy, technology, and development, financial and operational management. Frank excels at cultivating an entrepreneurial culture, assembling high performance teams, identifying emerging technology trends, and incubating innovative, high growth businesses. Frank is passionate about helping companies re-imagine their digital future through the application of technology. He frequently collaborates with organizations on ways to accelerate their innovation roadmap.

In his last role, Frank led [Virtusa](/org/virtusa)’s Digital Business where he was responsible for building highly specialized technology practices focused on capabilities in UX, Mobility, Social, Cloud, Gamification, Analytics, Big Data and IoT. Frank oversaw all innovation strategy, business development, solution creation and global technology partnerships for the Digital Business. Frank led a large global team of consultants who have delivered over 200+ large-scale digital programs for Fortune 500 organizations across the financial services, insurance, media and healthcare markets.

Prior to joining [Virtusa](/org/virtusa), Frank was chief technology officer (CTO) for Decorwalla, an emerging B2B marketplace in the interior design industry. At Decorwalla, Frank was responsible for the overall technology strategy, creative direction, site development and deployment. Prior to that, Frank was CTO and VP of Engineering for [INSCI Corporation](/org/insci-corporation), a supplier of digital document repositories and integrated output management products and services. Under Frank’s leadership, INSCI’s products were awarded the prestigious Product of the Year award for 1998 by Imaging and Document Solutions magazine, a leading industry source.

Prior to INSCI, Frank held several innovation positions at IBM in the Cambridge Scientific Center, TJ Watson Research Facility and Advanced Workstations Division. He was involved in MIT’s project Athena to create distributed computing environment for educational use. He took part in the PowerPC consortium with IBM, Motorola and Apple and was involved in the design and development of the PowerPC family of microprocessors. He was also instrumental in architecting and developing a massive distributed client/server design automation and simulation system involving thousands of high-end clustered servers. Frank received several patents for his work in the area of microprocessor design and distributed client/server computing.

Frank enjoys sharing his point of view and is a published columnist and frequent speaker on leading technology trends. Frank enjoys networking and connecting with innovators in technology.

Frank Palermo

Chandika Mendis leads Engineering Excellence and Innovation for [Virtusa](/org/virtusa) Corporation, and is responsible for global engineering standards, metrics and tools as well as driving a technology innovation culture. Chandika carries over 15 years of experience in IT, and provides leadership to the teams that have created key productivity accelerators and differentiators.

Prior to [Virtusa](/org/virtusa), he was the chief software architect for a global IT consulting organization, playing an instrumental role in setting up and leading their San Francisco office.

Chandika Mendis

Ram Meenakshisundaram is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Virtusa Corporation and is responsible for leading Lines of Service, including technology strategy and solutions, building digital competencies and capabilities, and working with Virtusa's alliance group to enable partner solutions.

He was earlier employed with Cognizant for over 15 years, where he served as head of Delivery, Growth markets. He was responsible for leading a $4 billion business with a geographically distributed team. Previously, he was the delivery head for their Life Sciences, Information, Media and Entertainment verticals, and a SBU leader in their Banking and Financial services vertical.  Ram has also served on the Executive Leadership team at Cognizant. Prior to Cognizant, Ram worked with iNautix Technologies, EDS, and TCS in many roles.

Ram graduated from Jadavpur University, Kolkata with a degree in Production Engineering.

Ram Meenakshisundaram

Ashish Devalekar oversees a high-performing team across Europe and the Middle East that delivers business transformation, digital innovation, consulting, and IT services to clients across banking, insurance, telecommunications, healthcare and life sciences sectors. He is responsible for driving Virtusa go-to-market strategy in Europe and the Middle East.

Ashish recently served as Head of Financial Services at Capgemini, UK and Member of UK Country Board. Prior to that, Ashish held leadership positions at Polaris, HCL, and IBM Global Services.

Ashish has spent the past 20 years helping organizations grow, innovate, and transform by building diverse business and digital technology teams paired with his deep knowledge in the financial services and European marketplace.

Ashish Devalekar

Thomas R. Holler is chief strategy officer and executive vice president at [Virtusa](/org/virtusa) Corporation, and has played a pivotal role in [Virtusa](/org/virtusa)’s  journey. Prior to his promotion, he served various positions at [Virtusa](/org/virtusa) – executive vice president (finance), chief financial officer, treasurer and secretary since 2001.

Thomas R. Holler

John Gillis, is one of the co-founders of Virtusa Corporation and is responsible for Client Services and Business Development across the organization.

Prior to joining Virtusa Corporation, John was a founder and executive vice president at [INSCI Corporation](/org/insci-corporation). [INSCI Corporation](/org/insci-corporation) is a leading supplier of digital document repositories and integrated output management products and services. In his career at INSCI, John also held the key position of chief operating officer. As a vital member of the organization’s management team, John played a crucial and strategic role in taking [INSCI Corporation](/org/insci-corporation) public in 1994. Prior to INSCI, John spent more than 20 years in sales as well as sales management with several technology firms. John has played key roles in various technology companies such as IBM, EXXON and Data General.

John Gillis

Paul D. Tutun joined Virtusa Corporation in July 2003, and provides advice primarily to the executive team, board of directors and committees of the board and is responsible for all the company’s general corporate matters including client contracts, SEC filings and compliance, employment and real estate matters and equity compensation. Paul has over 15 years of experience representing technology companies and investment banks in mergers and acquisitions, initial and follow-on public equity offerings, ongoing public company and other related technology matters.

Paul D. Tutun

Santosh Thomas is Chief Executive Officer of [Virtusa](/org/virtusa). As a business leader and technologist, he has a proven track record for building and managing multi-billion dollar businesses and leading expansion into new markets.

Before joining [Virtusa](/org/virtusa), Santosh was part of [Cognizant](/org/cognizant)’s Executive Committee team responsible for managing a business with over $4 billion in revenue and driving growth in Europe, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. A visionary leader, he envisioned, built and managed businesses in Banking, CommTech, and Products & Resources.
Santosh obtained his degree in marketing and finance from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.

Santosh Thomas

Sander van 't Noordende is an independent director at [Virtusa](/org/virtusa) and a former group chief executive products operating group at [Accenture](/org/accenture). Sander has also served on the boards of [Avanade](/org/avanade) and [Randstad](/org/randstad). Sander started their career as a strategy consultant in the financial services and utilities industries.

Sander van 't Noordende graduated from Eindhoven University of Technology with a degree in Industrial Engineering with a focus in marketing, finance.



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