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LTM (formerly LTIMindtree)

Information Technology ServicesFounded 1996
Reviewed by Swet Parvadiya
Company data updated: October 2026

Founders

Who Founded LTIMindtree?

Larsen & Toubro, Subroto Bagchi · Founded 1996 · HQ today: Mumbai, Maharashtra & Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Who founded LTIMindtree?

LTIMindtree was founded by Larsen & Toubro, Subroto Bagchi in 1996. It is now led by Venu Lambu.

Founders
Larsen & Toubro, Subroto Bagchi
Founded
1996
Headquarters
Mumbai, Maharashtra & Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Number of founders
2
Current CEO
Venu Lambu (since 2025)
Where was LTIMindtree founded?
LTIMindtree was founded in Mumbai, India in 1996.
When was LTIMindtree founded?
LTIMindtree was founded in 1996.
Who started LTIMindtree?
LTIMindtree was founded by Larsen & Toubro and Subroto Bagchi.
How old is LTIMindtree?
LTIMindtree is 30 years old as of 2026.

Founding Story

L&T set up its software unit, L&T Information Technology, in 1996. The unit later became Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) and listed in 2016. Mindtree was founded in Bengaluru in 1999 by ten IT veterans including Ashok Soota, Subroto Bagchi and Krishnakumar Natarajan. In 2019 L&T bought Café Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha's roughly 20% stake in Mindtree and followed with market purchases and an open offer, which Mindtree's founders opposed, to take control in what is widely described as India's first hostile takeover in IT services. L&T merged Mindtree into LTI in November 2022 to form LTIMindtree, which was renamed LTM in 2026.

Larsen & Toubro

Co-founder 1996

Background

A diversified engineering, construction, manufacturing and technology group, and one of India's largest industrial companies.

Role at LTM (formerly LTIMindtree)

Larsen & Toubro, the Mumbai-based engineering and construction group founded in 1938 by Danish engineers Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro, set up L&T Information Technology in 1996. That unit became Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI), which listed in 2016. L&T took control of Mindtree in 2019, merged it into LTI in November 2022 to form LTIMindtree, and still holds about 68.6% of the company, now called LTM. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Subroto Bagchi

Co-founder 1999

Background

IT services executive and author; earlier career at Wipro and Lucent.

Role at LTM (formerly LTIMindtree)

Subroto Bagchi was one of the ten people who founded Mindtree in Bengaluru in 1999. The others included Ashok Soota and Krishnakumar Natarajan. Bagchi had worked at Wipro and Lucent and later served as Mindtree's COO and vice chairman. He is also known for his business books, among them 'The High-Performance Entrepreneur' and 'The Professional'. Mindtree went public in 2007 and was merged with LTI in 2022. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

LTM (formerly LTIMindtree): CEO & Leadership History

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Venu Lambu

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

2025 – Present

Serving as Executive Director and President, he aggressively drove the combined company's expansion in Europe and the Americas before departing in 2023.

Debashis Chatterjee

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

2019 – 2025

As the CEO of the merged entity, he is tasked with pushing LTIMindtree into the highly elite 'Tier 1' status of Indian IT, aggressively competing directly against TCS and Infosys.

Sanjay Jalona

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, LTI

2015 – 2022

LTI revenue passed $2 billion under him. He resigned in November 2022 when LTI merged with Mindtree.

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Who Founded LTIMindtree? FAQ

When and by whom were LTI and Mindtree originally founded?

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) was founded in December 1996 as the software division of engineering giant Larsen & Toubro, spearheaded by A.M. Naik. Mindtree was founded in August 1999 by a group of ten technology industry veterans led by Ashok Soota and Subroto Bagchi.

Who were the ten co-founders of Mindtree in 1999?

The ten co-founders of Mindtree were Ashok Soota, Subroto Bagchi, Krishnakumar Natarajan, Rostow Ravanan, N.S. Parthasarathy, Kalyan Banerjee, Anjan Lahiri, S. Janakiraman, Scott Staples, and Kamran Ozair, who left leading firms like Wipro and Lucent to launch the venture.

What was the founding vision and culture of Mindtree?

Mindtree was founded with a distinctive vision of building a compassionate, high-integrity IT services company with high empathy and engineering excellence, symbolized by its name representing the strength of the mind and the organic nurturing of a tree.

What was the origin of Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI)?

LTI was established in 1996 as L&T Information Technology Ltd to leverage Larsen & Toubro's deep engineering and industrial capabilities for enterprise software development, later rebranding to Larsen & Toubro Infotech in 2001.

Who was Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro?

Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro were Danish chemical and civil engineers who founded parent company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in Mumbai in 1938, building the industrial foundation upon which LTIMindtree was later created.

What was Subroto Bagchi's contribution to Mindtree and corporate literature?

Subroto Bagchi served as Mindtree's Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman, acting as the brand's cultural steward. Bagchi is also a celebrated business author who wrote best-selling leadership books including 'The High-Performance Entrepreneur' and 'The Professional'.

How did LTI transition from an internal captive software unit to an independent public company?

Under L&T leadership, LTI expanded externally by serving global Fortune 500 financial and energy clients, culminating in a blockbuster Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Indian stock exchanges in July 2016.

Who founded LTIMindtree?

It is a pure corporate creation. LTI was founded in 1997 as the software arm of Larsen & Toubro (India's absolute largest construction and engineering conglomerate). Mindtree was founded in 1999 by a highly respected group of Indian IT veterans (including Subroto Bagchi and Krishnakumar Natarajan). Mindtree's founders fiercely fought L&T's 2019 hostile takeover, but ultimately lost control of their company.

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