Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
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Leadership History
5 leaders · 1994 to present
Cognizant is a global IT services company built around enterprise technology work that most large companies cannot easily turn off: applications, infrastructure, data, cloud, business processes, and industry platforms.
Cognizant earns revenue from multi-year enterprise technology contracts across consulting, application services, cloud modernization, data and AI, digital engineering, infrastructure, business process services, and platform-led work such as healthcare administration software.
Chief Executive Officer
2023 – Present
3 years (current)
Leads Cognizant's current push into AI-led modernization, delivery productivity, engineering, and industry platform depth.
Former CEO
2019 – 2023
4 years
Managed the company through a restructuring and the pandemic-era enterprise technology cycle.
Former CEO
2007 – 2019
12 years
Led Cognizant through a long growth phase as it expanded in consulting, digital services, healthcare, and financial services.
Former CEO and Vice Chairman
2003 – 2006
3 years
Scaled Cognizant's delivery model and helped institutionalize its offshore services culture.
Founding executive and former CEO
1994 – 2003
9 years
Helped build Cognizant from its Dun & Bradstreet origins into a stand-alone IT services company.
Cognizant's main risks are client budget delays, pricing pressure in legacy outsourcing, competition from Accenture, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Capgemini, and IBM, and the need to turn generative AI from a billing-rate threat into a delivery-productivity advantage.
Ravi Kumar S is Chief Executive Officer of Cognizant.
Ravi Kumar S became CEO in 2023.
Brian Humphries, Francisco D'Souza, Lakshmi Narayanan, and Kumar Mahadeva are key prior leaders.
Current priorities include AI-led modernization, engineering services, delivery productivity, and client growth.