Executive Council
As the governing body for nasscom, the Executive Council plays the strategic role of enabling the IT-BPM sector take leadership on the global map through focused initiatives and programs.
Rajesh Nambiar
CHAIRPERSON nasscom,Chairman and Managing Director,Cognizant India
Sindhu Gangadharan
Vice Chairperson nasscom,MD SAP Labs India,Head, Customer Innovation Services, SAP
Rahul Singh
Chief Operating Officer Corporate Functions,HCL Technologies Ltd
Harita Gupta
Head of APAC,Sutherland
Kishor Patil
Co-founder,KPIT Technologies
Maulik Bhansali
CEO,Netweb
Krishnan Ramanujam
President – Service Lines,Tata Consultancy Services
Anand Ramamoorthy
MD,Micron India
Debjani Ghosh
President,nasscom
Sandip Patel
Managing Director IBM India And South Asia,IBM India Pvt Ltd
Sanjay Gupta
Country Head and Vice President,Google India Private Limited
Satish H C
Executive Vice President and Co Head of Delivery,Infosys Limited
Sriram Subramanya
CEO,Integra Software Services
Srikanth Velamakanni
CEO,Fractal
Tejal Patil
General Counsel,Wipro Limited
Vidya Srinivasan
SVP Infrastructure and Risk,Genpact India Private Limited
Santhosh Viswanathan
VP & MD, India Region,Intel India
Puneet Chandok
President ,Microsoft India and South Asia
Rostow Ravanan
Chairman & CEO, Alfahive,Chair, nasscom Foundation
Sandeep Dutta
Senior Managing Director & Head, India Business,Accenture India
Keshav Murugesh
Group CEO,WNS Global Services
Daisy Devassy Chittilapilly
President India SAARC,Cisco Systems (India) Pvt Ltd
Anu Acharya
CEO,Map My Genome
Jayendran Venugopal
Chief Product and Technology Officer,Flipkart
Arundhati Bhattacharya
India Chairperson and CEO,Salesforce.com India Private Limited
Amit Chadha
CEO and Managing Director,L&T Technology Services Ltd
Akhilesh Tuteja
Partner and Head Global Cyber Security Consulting practice,KPMG Advisory Services Private Limited
Prativa Mohapatra
Vice President Managing Director Adobe India,Adobe Systems India Pvt Ltd
Past Chairpersons Council
Comprises of Past Chairpersons and Former Presidents of nasscom who work closely with the Executive Council in shaping the strategy, direction and values.
Krishnan Ramanujam
President – Service Lines,Tata Consultancy Services
Rekha M Menon
Chairperson and Senior Managing Director,Accenture in India
UB Pravin Rao
Former COO, Infosys Technologies Ltd
Keshav Murugesh
Group CEO,WNS Global Services
Rishad Premji
Chairman,Wipro Ltd.
R Chandrasekhar
Former President,Nasscom
Raman Roy
Chairman and MD,Quatrro Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
C P Gurnani
CEO & MD,TechMahindra
Dr. B V R Mohan Reddy
Founder & Executive Chairman,Cyient Limited
R Chandrasekaran
Former Executive Vice Chairman,Cognizant India
Krishnakumar Natarajan
Founder,MindTree Ltd.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Chairman,Tata Sons
Rajendra Singh Pawar
Chairman & Co-founder,NIIT Group
Harsh Manglik
Former Chairman,Accenture (India)
Pramod Bhasin
Founder,Genpact India Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan
Former Vice Chairman & CEO,Zensar Technologies
Lakshmi Narayanan
Former Vice Chairman,Cognizant Technology Solutions India
S Ramadorai
Former Vice Chairman,Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Jerry Rao
Founder,MphasiS Ltd.
Som Mittal
Former President, nasscom (2008-13); Former CEO,HP Globalsoft Ltd.
Kiran Karnik
Former President,Nasscom
Atul K. Nishar
Founder,Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Raj Jain
Chairman & Managing Director,RS Software (India) Ltd.
Saurabh Srivastava
Chairman,Steria (India) Ltd.
K V Ramani
Founder,Future Software Ltd.
Ashank Desai
Founder,Mastek Ltd.
Dr. N. R. Narayana Murthy
Founder,Infosys Ltd.
Harish Mehta
Executive Chairman,Onward Technologies Ltd.
Debjani Ghosh
President, Nasscom
Sangeeta Gupta
Sr VP & Chief Strategy Officer, Nasscom
Sanjeev Malhotra
CEO, Centre of Excellence
Kritika Murugesan
Senior Director, DeepTech and Startups
Srikanth Srinivasan
Vice President and Head, Membership and Outreach
Kirti Seth
CEO, FutureSkills
Sandeep Bahl
Vice President, Events
Shivendra Singh
Vice President, Global Trade Development
Gopal Sharma
Head, Finance, Controls and Operations
Ashish Aggarwal
Vice President, Public Policy
Garima Sharma
Head HR, Nasscom
Achyuta Ghosh
Head, Research
Siva Polimetla
Head, ER&D Initiative
Leenika Khattar
Director, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Charter
Dr. Chetan Samant
Head, SME Initiative
Kavita Doshi
Head, Corporate Communications
PAV Raghu Kumar
Regional Head, Telangana and AP
Vijaya Ganguly
Regional Head, West
Nirupam Chaudhuri
Regional Head, East
Sujith Unni
Regional Head, Kerala
Bhaskar Kumar Verma
Regional Head, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Dewang Mehta (1991-2001)
In early 1991, when the fledging IT sector was still finding its feet, and seeking mentors and visionaries to set it on the path of the future, a young CA in New Delhi, a techie, a “graphics man,” saw what few could even comprehend at that point in time.
Dewang Mehta, a pioneering spirit, saw a world where the Indian ICT industry would play a key role. He envisioned a scenario where India would find a place on the global map on the strength of its technology talent and skilled IT manpower. Along with other thought leaders, Dewang Mehta laid the foundation for what became India’s most powerful growth engine—the country’s IT-BPO sector. Spurred the growth of India’s software and services exports, driving the industry to become a significant contributor to the country’s GDP.
Kiran Karnik (2001-2007)
Kiran Karnik is the former President of nasscom, and a well known leader and spokesperson of the IT-BPO industry. Taking charge of nasscom in 2001, following the untimely demise of its Founder and President, Dewang Mehta, Kiran Karnik helped stabilise the organisation and enabled it to continue on its path of growth, expansion and institution building.
During his tenure as President, nasscom, spearheaded initiatives that helped in the following ways: Reiterated nasscom's commitment to Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs), providing them with a platform for interaction, learning, mentorship and recognition. Kiran helped in the creation of Emerge, a plank specially focused on launching initiatives targeted at the smaller players within the IT-BPO industry, and enabled them to find a voice.
Som Mittal (2008-2013)
Som Mittal held the position of President, Nasscom from 2008-13 and steered the industry through one of its most challenging phases. Som played a key role in shaping the industry and nasscom through multiple initiatives that included:
Som led the public advocacy efforts globally and was able to overcome protectionism issues in US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia among others. Consistently reiterating commitment to free trade, Som took a strong stance against perils of protectionist policies, demonstrating how Indian companies are contributing to local economies and at the same time ensuring policies in India follow the same principle.
As a member of Indo US and Indo EU ICT strategic dialogues, Som worked on many key initiatives including conclusion of several social security agreements.
R Chandrashekhar (2013-2018)
During his tenure at nasscom, the industry entered the age of Fourth Industrial Revolution which in its wake brought in disruptive change – need for re-skilling of talent, enterprise-wide digital transformation, cybersecurity, rising protectionist wave particularly in traditional markets, the second coming of startups, increased focus on the domestic market and IT for social good, among others.
In a VUCA-defined environment, he catalysed great change and addressed the diverse needs of industry stakeholders in an exemplary manner. As a result, the member count increased manifold and today the number stands at 2600. Among the many firsts were CoEs in IoT & Data Science which had been set up to foster next gen technologies.
He has also held many distinguished positions in the Government including, Chairman of the Telecom Commission, Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications in the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology in India, and Secretary of the Department of Information Technology for several terms. He was conferred the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration in 2007-08.
Council Members - Gurgaon
Amar Gomber
President Corporate Functions and Group CFO,Xceedance Consulting India
Pawan Tayla
Regional CFO,Publicis Sapient
Karanjit Singh
CEO India,Kellton Tech Solutions Limited
Sreeram Pagalla
VP CX Operations,Concentrix
Varun Parihar
VP and Head Corporate Affairs,Shiprocket
Kunal Purohit
Chief Digital Strategy Officer,Tech Mahindra
Gaurav Arora
Head, European Distribution Services,Fidelity International
Sriram Natarajan
President,Quinte Financial Technologies Inc
Vimal Choudhary
Head, McKinsey Knowledge Center & Global Director for Strategy,McKinsey Global Services
Babita Karki
CHRO,NIIT Limited
Manas Fuloria
Founder,Nagarro
Sudakshina Laha
Head - Services- MSIT and ADM, Cloud Software and Services at Ericsson,Ericsson
Prabhat Bhattacharya
Director ,Government Affairs & Public Policy
Mohit Sood
Regional Managing Principal,ZS Associates India Pvt Ltd
Arun Karna
Managing Director & CEO,AT&T Global Network Services India
Neeraj Juneja
Senior Vice President - Global Shared Services,NTT DATA Services
Council Members - Noida
Roli Jindal
Co Founder,RMSI
Arindam Ray Chaudhuri
COO,Agreeya Solutions (India) Private Limited
Rajesh Thakur
Chief Executive Officer,MothersonSumi Infotech & Designs Ltd
Suhel Goel
EVP,SandMartin Global Outsourcing
Pavan Kumar Verma
CEO,Redian Software-SME
Sanjay kabra
COO,Magic Software Pvt Ltd
Chetan Alsisaria
CEO,Polestar Solutions and Services India Private Limited
Sanjeev Prasad
EVP,Coforge Limited
Sharmeen Khalid
CHRO,Info Edge (India) Ltd
Jitendra Mohan Bhardwaj
CIO,Tata Advanced Systems
Ganesh Kahsyap
Head Global development,Landis+Gyr Limited
Council Members - Rajasthan
Munesh Jadoun
CEO,ZNet
Ranjana Thanvi
CEO,Memorres Digital Private Limited
Sandeep Jain
Co-Founder & Managing Director,InTimeTec
Kshitij Jain
Co-Founder,Mindspace Outsourcing Services Pvt
Omkar Singh Rathore
Director Offshore Services,Dotsquares Technologies
Anugrah Shukla
Vice President Human Resources,Genpact
Council Members - Chandigarh
Munish Jauhar
CEO,Graycell Technologies
Pancham Prashar
Co-Founder,Cue Blocks Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Tarik Deep Singh
Competency Head -IOT,Tech Mahindra
Manish Gupta
Founder & CEO, TestingXperts & DAMCO
Harshvir Singh
MD,Drish Infotech Limited
Regional Council – kolkata
Sanjoy Chatterjee
Director of the Board and CTO, Entiovi Technologies Pvt Ltd
Surmit De
Director,Cegura Technology Solutions
Sandeep Sengupta
Director,ISOAH Data Securities
Niraj Basotia
Group COO,Redtech Network India Pvt Ltd
Praveen Jaiswal
Head - Business Development & Co-Founder,Vehere Interactive Pvt Ltd
Sachin Thakkar
Director,Triple A Solutions Private Limited
Tapishnu Chaudhuri
CFO,iMerit Technology Services Private Limited
Brishti Mondal
VP-HR,Nomura Research Institute Financial Technologies Private Limited
Arnab Chakraborty
Co-Founder,Asmaka Ventures LLP
Shantanu Som
Director-Technical,Som Imaging Informatics Pvt Ltd
Syed Sajid Hussain
AVP, Projects & Global Head, SAP Cust Exp,Cognizant Technology Solutions India Private Limited
Vishal Agarwal
Executive Director,EY GDS
Council Members - Mumbai
Nachiket Deshpande
Director,LTIMindtree
Amit Shah
Director,XS CAD
Amit Sheth
Co-Chairman,aurionPro Solutions Ltd.
Anand Bhushan
Chief Operating Officer,Saint Gobain
Anantharaman Sreenivasan (Ganesh)
Managing Director & CEO,NSEIT Limited
Ankur Garg
Founder,IFI Techsolutions
Nasir Shaikh
SVP, Head of Human Resources,Atos
Prajakta Talvelkar
Chief Marketing Officer,Mastek Group
Ramakrishna Sundaram
Managing Director,J. P. Morgan
Roopa Bharvani
Chief Human Resources Officer,TIAA
Ruchee Anand
Senior Director,Linkedin
Sharda Gupta
Head of Global Business Services,Bayer
Sunil Gupta
Co-founder, Managing Director & CEO,Yotta Data Services
Vijay Shanbhag
Executive Vice President,Capgemini
Vikas Chadha
Managing Director,GI Infotech Private Limited
Kamolika Gupta Peres
Vice President & Managing Director,ServiceNow
Council Members - Pune
Vijay Yashwant Mhaskar
SVP and Pune site lead,Veritas
Nikhil Malhotra
Chief Innovation Officer,Tech Mahindra
Akanksha Sane
Senior Director, India HR Delivery,PTC Software India Pvt. Ltd.
Radhakrishnan Kodakkal
VP & Head, Global Technology & Engineering Center,Whirlpool
Manoj Nair
Head of Global Delivery Center, Fujitsu India Global Delivery Center,Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
Sachin Deshmukh
Managing Director,Softdel
Suchitra Pritesh
Global Vice president and Head - Marketing,Cybage Software Pvt Ltd
Dr. Rajesh Gharpure
Chief Delivery Officer,Persistent Systems Limited
Samir Chabukswar
Founder & CEO,YUJ Designs
Pranali Save
CHRO,Icertis
C Manivannan
President,Suma Soft Pvt Ltd
Sandeep Rane
MD & Chief Delivery Officer,Brillio
Prashant Deshpande
Founder & MD,Expert Global Group
Abhijit Datar
Vice President,Cognizant
Council Members - Gujarat
Namrata Gupta
Co-Founder and COO,Synoverge Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Siddharth B. Shah
COO,iView Labs (Product Development Partner)
Nilam Patel
Managing Director, India Operations,S&P Global
Vivek Aggarwal
Business Head,(n)Code Solutions
Council Members - Karnataka
Chetan Khosla
Chairman & MD,Wyzmindz
Puneet Kumar
Managing Director, Government Relations and Policy Advocacy,Accenture
Kishore Balaji Desikachari
Executive Director - Government & Regulatory AffairsExecutive Di,IBM
Vikas Razdan
India Head - GIC & India business,ITC Infotech
Prasad Acharya
Vice President, Americas Resources and Energy Transition - Business Unit Delivery Head & Location Head for Capgemini Bengaluru Centres,Capgemini
Subrata Mitra
SVP, Head of Govt Relations & Policy,Ather Energy
Natarajan Radhakrishnan
President & Global Chief Information Officer,HGS
Deepak Satya
Senior Vice President,NTT Data
Deepa Nagaraj
Global Head of Communication & Sparkle Innovation EcoSystem,Mphasis
Mohan Mummadi
Managing Director,Wissen Technology
Gaurav Gupta
General Manager ,Global Enterprise and Technology Director,Unilever
Satish Sundaresan
Vice President - Strategy & Country Manager - India,Elektrobit
Parminder kakria
Head - Govt Affairs, Policy, Americas, Europe & APAC,Wipro
Bindya S Raj
AVP & Sr.Grp Mgr Strategy,Planning&Operations for Digital Experience,Infosys
Anand Veeramani
Senior VP & Geo Head - Happiest Minds,Happiest Minds
Sudhir Sharma
SVP & BU leader for our Energy & Utilities ,CGI
Lingraju Sawkar
President ,Kyndryl
Council Members - Tamil Nadu
Ganesh Kalyanaraman
SVP and Delivery Head Global Growth Markets,Cognizant Technology Solutions
Manju Bharadwaj
Chief People Officer,Straive (erstwhile SPi Global)
J K MANIVANNAN
CEO,Desicrew Solutions Pvt Ltd
Madhavan Srinivasan
CEO and MD,Kripya Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Balaji Viswanathan
Managing Director & CEO,Expleo Solutions Limited
Jaya Vaidhyanathan
Chief Executive Officer,BCT Digital
Jagan Pochiraju
SVP and Global Delivery Head,Virtusa
Ramesh Ramamurthy
Senior VP of Technology & GM,Mastek
V Chandrasekaran
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer,Congruent Solutions (P) Ltd.
Aswin Lakshmanan
Director, Strategy & Planning,Verizon India
Neeraja Krishnan
Director,IDP Education India Services LLP
Deepa Madhavan
Vice President and India Country Head,Genesys
Praveen Gnanasekaran
Founder and CEO,TrueTech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Rajaraman Srinivasan
CoFounder and CEO,Neoware Technology Solutions
Rajamanohar Somasundaram
Founder & CEO,Aquaconnect
Council Members - Telangana
Sridhar Chunduri
VP, Application Engineering,Salesforce
Mohit Sharma
Sr. Vice President,Virtusa
Sairam Vedam
Chief Marketing Officer + M&A- Corp Development,Cigniti Technologies
Prashanth Nandella
Chief Operating Officer,Firstsource
Giri Gorjala
GBS India COO and Tech Executive,Bank Of America
Sudha Raju Sharma
Head of Corporate and Employee Technology Services,Thomson Reuters
Sumeet Mathur
Vice President & Managing Director, ServiceNow India Technology & Business Center,ServiceNow
Rajesh Dhuddu
SVP & Global Business Head – Emerging Technology,Tech Mahindra
Rahul Attuluri
Cofounder & CEO,Nxtwave
Sravanthi Lanka
Senior Director,S&P Global
Srinivas Bhimaraju
Sr Vice President, Application Services Delivery,NTT DATA Services, India
Bala Navuluri
Chief Operations Officer,Yash Technologies
Ravikanth Bommakanti
Country Head Consumer, Wealth and CORE Banking Technology , Global Technology Risk , Audit and Control,DBS Tech
Rakesh Mishra
Head of Finance,ZF Group
Mahender Dubba
Managing Director at Global Capability Center,Advance Auto Parts
Manoj Kalra
Global Head of Group Business Services & SVP,DSM - Firmenich
Council Members - Kerala
Vijay Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO ,InApp
Koshy Mathew
Leader - EY GDS,EY
Gautam Shankar
VP India and Japan operations,Kimball Electronics
Vijith Sivadasan
Co-Founder & Board Member ,Codelattice
Jijimon Chandran
Founder & CEO,Acsia
Kavitha Gopan
Networthsoft
Raj Srinivsasan
CEO,Suyati Technologies
Nazneen Jehangir
Executive Director & CEO,NeST
Sujas Ali
Founder & CEO,Aabasoft
