Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Tech Mahindra

An accomplished business leader with extensive experience in international business development, start-ups and turnarounds, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, CP led Tech Mahindra's transformation journey, and one of the biggest turnarounds of Indian Corporate History - the acquisition and merger of Satyam.

His inimitable style of leadership, combined with his sharp focus on customer experience has helped Tech Mahindra emerge as one of the leading digital IT solution providers of India.

In a career spanning 38+ years, CP has held several leading positions with Hewlett Packard Ltd, Perot Systems (India) Ltd. and HCL Corporation Ltd. CP has also served as a Chairman of NASSCOM for the year 2016-2017. An outstanding people manager, CP has an entrepreneurial style of management that is a blend of enthusiasm and dynamism. He has always focused on people's strength to bring out the best in them. 'Work hard and play hard' is his motto and he applies it to all aspects of his life with complete passion.

A chemical engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, he is a distinguished and active alumnus of the Institute. CP has also been felicitated with an honorary Doctorate degree by Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology and Sharda University. His passion in the field of education even resonates today. He is on-board with Mahindra Ecole Centrale and is also the Chairman of IIM Nagpur.

CP’s endeavours are self-explanatory which won him numerous accolades that include winning Gold at the CEO World Awards 2018 for his Organization’s Wide Reskilling Initiative and the Business Today ‘Best CEO’ Awards 2019 in the IT & ITES category. His clinical leadership strategies have always been honored at various platforms over the years counting in the ‘Asia One Global Indian of the Year - Technology’ in 2016, ‘Best CEO of the Year’ at the Forbes India Leadership Awards in 2015, Business Standard ‘CEO of the Year’ in 2014, Ernst and Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year, CNBC Asia’s ‘India Business Leader of the Year’, Dataquest ‘IT person of the Year’ - in 2013.

CP strongly believes in promoting child education. He is an active member of the Tech Mahindra Foundation – launched in 2007 to help the underprivileged children with 116,000 beneficiaries & counting. CP, along with his wife Anita, have founded ‘Titliyan’, an NGO located in Noida spreading smiles, happiness and education to more than 240 under privileged children – a dream project for the Gurnanis. This is definitely a perfect culmination of his leadership capabilities in all spheres of life.

CP is highly active on social media platforms like twitter and LinkedIn and you can connect and follow him on the same.

President, Communications, Media and Entertainment Business, and The CEO, Network Services – Tech Mahindra

Manish Vyas, is the President, Communications, Media & Entertainment Business (CME), and the Chief Executive of Network Services at Tech Mahinda. As President, Manish is repsonsible for running all facets of the CME business.

He is an inspirational leader who tells stories that inspire action while at the same time is grounded in financial information that levers the business. Respected as a credible voice in decision making, finding strategic partners, and establishing governance boundaries, Manish earns a seat at the table wherever he serves.

Manish has been assocaited with Tech Mahindra for over 20 years now and has played a key role in building high performance teams, driving growth through innovative solutions & go-to-market strategies.In his tenure as President of the CME Business, the business has grown from $1 billion dollars to $2.2 billion dollars today.

He has been involved in creating the strategic direction to the CME & Networks Services business and in driving various organic & inorganic growth initiatives. Manish has co-authored Technology papers on ‘Network Innovation’ with CXOs of Networks-based companies, and published several blogs on the Future of the CSPs, as here –

• Innovation with 5G in Media
• ET Telecom - The 5th Wave of Networks

Some of his recent media addresses are –

• Manish Vyas on the Future of Telecom in Middle East & Africa (Dubai)
• Keynote Address at the ITU-GSR 2018 (United Nations, Geneva)
• TIA NOW interview on ‘AI in Virtual Networks’ along with the LINUX Foundation

Apart from his association with Tech Mahindra, Manish has also been identified as one of the future business leaders at the Mahindra Group, as part of the ‘Future Leadership Program’. He consistently contributes to the Group’s Innovation Council named ‘M-101’. He is the Chairman of Tech Mahindra Americas and is also a board Member - US India Chamber of Commerce, Dallas FortWorth

Manish was brought up in Nagpur in Central India and is currently based out of Dallas, USA. Manish holds an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai and Electronics Engineering from Nagpur University.

When not busy traveling meeting customers and building teams, Manish likes to maximize his free time with his two daughters. He is an ardent cricket fan and enjoys watching Hindi classical cinema. Here’s a link to a very personal, direct from the heart Podcast – ‘Cracking the Code with Manish Vyas’.

Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Growth, Tech Mahindra

As Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Growth of Tech Mahindra, Jagdish Mitra leads the global agenda of business growth - driven by strategy, powered by Digital, and manifested in brand experiences.

He is currently elected on the prestigious Executive Council of NASSCOM, the governing body for NASSCOM. The Executive Council plays the strategic role of enabling the IT-BPM sector to take leadership on the global map through focused initiatives and programs. He is driving conversations on the future of the workforce and reskilling, and actively working towards cross border collaboration.

Additionally, he is a member of CII National Startup Council and on the CII’s National Committee on Skill Development and Livelihood.

Previously, he served as the CEO of CanvasM. In his 25 years of career, he has played many roles spanning across sales, business development, and large deals. He has opened many new markets in North America, UK, Middle East, Australia New Zealand, and Southeast Asia apart from India.

He is also an advisor to MedTech startup incubated at Sine, IIT Bombay. He regularly mentors startups in B2B Tech space like SKTA in Silicon Valley. He is also sought after speaker in the leadership circle in India and internationally.

He sees collaboration as the biggest virtue of a true leader and attributes his success to it. He believes AI, automation, digital can enable us to create unique human experiences of the future. He is a sports enthusiast, loves football and plays squash. He is passionate about imparting sports training to underprivileged kids. Jagdish is the founder of a Jishnu football foundation that trains and awards scholarships to high potential kids from challenged backgrounds. He also volunteers for educating and empowering young students at Tech Mahindra Foundation.

Jagdish holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Applications from Birla Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of London.

Chief Financial Officer, Tech Mahindra

Mr. Manoj Bhat is the Chief Financial Officer of Tech Mahindra. He has rich experience of more than 20 years in the IT and ITES industry across various roles in Finance, Corporate Planning & Development, Merger & Acquisitions and Strategy. He has played a key role in Tech Mahindra’s organic and non-organic growth initiatives.

He has managed the acquisition and integration of more than 20 acquisitions for Tech Mahindra with the largest one being the Satyam acquisition. He has also been leading the profitability transformation journey in Tech Mahindra.

Mr. Bhat has a Bachelors in Technology degree from IIT Mumbai and a postgraduate diploma in management (PGDM) from IIM Bangalore.

President, Business Process Services – Tech Mahindra

Ritesh is a seasoned executive with more than two decades of experience in technology and technology-enabled business services. He has worked across IT services, BPO, SaaS/ BPaaS, outsourced product development, engineering research and development, and automation/ cognitive computing businesses. He has worked in start-ups, growth & turnaround environments, and has built billion-dollar businesses from scratch. He is one of a few executives globally with exposure to both services (applications, infrastructure, and process) and product businesses. He has worked in large public companies, and in VC/ PE backed private companies.

Ritesh, until recently, was an independent advisor to Boards/ CEOs and leadership teams of public and private mid-size businesses across different areas of value creation (strategy, growth, go to market, sales enablement, marketing and branding, capital raise and operational improvements). /p>

Before this, Ritesh spent more than 12 years at Infosys, where he was one of the members of the executive leadership team that took the revenues from $100 million in 1999 to $8 billion in 2012.

Ritesh is an MBA from FMS, New Delhi, majoring in Finance and Marketing, and a post-graduate honors diploma holder in Systems Management as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, majoring in Economics and Accounting. He has also completed the Executive Development Program at Wharton Business School.

Global Head, Infrastructure and Cloud Services – Tech Mahindra

Sudhir Nair has more than 2+ decades of cross functional experience in IT Infrastructure & Cloud services. He has held leadership positions in Business Development and Delivery. Over the last 11 years at Tech Mahindra, he has overseen the meteoric growth of the ICS division that significantly contributes to the company’s growth. He is credited with an innate ability to sense opportunities, ahead of the curve. This has enabled TechM launch several innovative solutions driving accelerated & profitable growth.

Post acquisition of Satyam, Sudhir played a pivotal role in seamlessly integrating the IMS business. He established the IMS Innovation Centre to build Tools, Platforms, and Automation solutions to enable Infrastructure Transformation services. He pioneered a cost-neutral Infrastructure Services Academy that enables a sustainable and reliable talent supply ecosystem.

At Infosys, which he joined in 2002, Sudhir played a critical role in the launch/ execution of Infra Business both in US & India. Before Infosys, during his stint at HCL, he played numerous roles, from being a Business Manager in UK to heading Presales/ Technical group.

Sudhir is a Computer Science graduate from Mumbai University; ITIL & CISA certified. And, has had the privilege of undertaking Executive Education at Harvard Business School through Mahindra Group initiative

Global Head of Wave 2 Technologies, Tech Mahindra

In a career spanning 28 years, Rajesh has led large and diverse global programs and initiatives across various organizations. As part of the senior management team, Rajesh has been part of Tech Mahindra’s transformation journey where he has contributed significantly to the company's strategy and business growth.

Rajesh heads up the Data and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Security & risk Managemnet and Blockchain competencies of Tech Mahindra. Rajesh is in his present role since the last six years after a brief stint as Global Sales Officer (GSO) at Capgemini. He had previously worked at Tech Mahindra for six years in strategic management roles. In the past, he has held various senior positions with many of the multinationals like BCGI, Comverse, Tata, Global Tele-systems and Hughes Network Systems and was based out of India and Europe.

Rajesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunications) and a Masters in Marketing Management from the University of Mumbai. He has done a Management Development Program from Harvard Business School and from Ross Business School, Michigan University.