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TECH MAHINDRA
INVESTOR DAY 2023

Pune, March 3, 2023 | 10 AM IST

Amidst heightened geo-economic fragmentation, financial sector vulnerabilities, and climate crisis, many enterprises have emerged resilient in 2022 by demonstrating the ability to embrace lean, sustainable practices and adapt quickly to changing customer behaviour. Against this backdrop of unprecedented change, technology continues to drive innovation and enable a new operating model for enterprises to embrace agile, customer-centric processes and be prepared for the future. With heightened digital transformation adoption, enterprises are now exploring 360-degree partnerships across the business. Technology companies are poised to create value and resilience in this fast-changing ecosystem.

As we step into 2023, the focus for enterprises now must be to become relevant for the next decade that will see an increased adoption of secure artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across multiverses, sustainable business practices, and workforce dynamics. At Tech Mahindra, we have been steering this sustainable transformation momentum ahead, strengthening our digital capabilities, and creating solutions that leverage next-generation technologies to enable resilient industries of the future. We are charging ahead strong on our transformation journey in line with our NXT.NOW™ strategy – that focusses on key technologies like 5G, cloud, AI, Web3.0, blockchain; CX, and sustainability. We are strongly focused on responsible and momentous growth for our customers to become competitively dominant for decades to come, and will talk about our plans to continue this trajectory in the next financial year

Join us on March 3rd for Tech Mahindra Investor Day 2023: Our leaders will share our larger vision and mission to build human-centric technologies that amplify talent and insights; and help our customers become resilient, relevant, and dominant now and in the future.

Leadership Point of View

Our Delegation

CP Gurnani
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Tech Mahindra
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CP Gurnani

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Tech Mahindra

CP Gurnani (popularly known as ‘CP’ within his peer group), is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tech Mahindra - a USD 6+ billion digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions provider with 157,000+ professionals across 90 countries, helping 1290 global customers including Fortune 500 companies.

A lifelong learner and a disrupter is what best describes CP. 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 40+ 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 his team’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. He is on the Board of Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, a promoter of Tech Mahindra Limited. His passion for education is resonated in the various honorary positions he holds - He is on the board of Mahindra Educational Institutions (MEI) & a member of the Board of Management of Mahindra University, a private university promoted by MEI to educate future citizens for and of a better world. He is also the Chairman of IIM Nagpur and the Founding Trustee of Plaksha University.

CP’s endeavours are self-explanatory which won him numerous accolades that include winning the CEO’s Choice ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ 2021 – the nation’s highest independent civilian honour – instituted by SKOCH Group and CEO’s Association for Inclusive India (CAII). He is also a Gold winner of the CEO World Awards 2018 for his organization wide reskilling initiative at Tech Mahindra and winner of 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; a few of them include ‘CEO of the Year’ award at the Raymond CEO Forum India Awards 2022, ‘Most Inspiring Business Leaders of Asia’ 2022 by The Economic Times, ‘Business Icon of India’ 2022 by Zee Business, ‘Leader of the Year’ in IT at CEO Today Magazine Middle East Awards 2021, ‘Influential Leader of New India’ 2021 by CNNNews 18, ‘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’.

CP strongly believes in promoting child education. He is on the Board of Tech Mahindra Foundation – launched in 2007 to help the underprivileged children with 290,425 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.

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

Rohit Anand
Chief Financial Officer
Tech Mahindra
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Rohit Anand

Rohit Anand is the Chief Financial Officer at Tech Mahindra and has been associated with the organization since November 2020. Before his current role he was the Global Business Head - Finance and led the Investor Relations function for Tech Mahindra.

Rohit brings with him a rich experience of over 20 years in various functional roles. Before joining Tech Mahindra, Rohit was the CFO of GE Healthcare, and has been in senior finance roles and CFO role in GE, for other business units like financial services, oil & gas and corporate across diverse geographies (US, China, India).

Rohit has built deep expertise in finance to be a strong business partner in driving sustainable growth. He has been focused on linking operations to financial metrics to drive right measurements and performance orientation. Rohit has also worked on various Lean and Six-Sigma projects driving the process orientation across the organization. He has worked on important projects like setting up of greenfield manufacturing plants, starting new businesses, product lines, and inorganic partnerships with customers or partners.

Rohit has completed B.A (Economics) and M.A (Economics) from the prestigious Delhi School of Economics.

Manish Vyas
President, Communications, Media and Entertainment Business, and CEO, Network Services
Tech Mahindra
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Manish Vyas

Manish Vyas is the President of Tech Mahindra’s largest Industry vertical, Communications, Media and Entertainment. He is also the Chief Executive of Network Services business, which is one of the leading growth pillars of Tech Mahindra.

An accomplished leader with extensive expertise and experience across global markets, Manish has led large and diverse global programs during his 20 years at Tech Mahindra.

Manish believes that Tech Mahindra and all his teams are duty bound to assist clients in 3 distinct areas viz Improve operational efficiencies, Drive greater velocity in business transformation and Create new growth opportunities for each Client. He firmly believes that large problems can be solved by picking right teams, creating right ecosystem partners, bringing right set of technologies together and when necessary challenge the status quo on business models. He has been involved in creating the strategic direction to the Telecom & the Networks Services business and in driving various Organic & Inorganic growth initiatives

Manish believes in building an organization powered by high-performance teams, diverse workforce and entrepreneurial capabilities. He drives the strategy, innovation and the go to market programs for Telecom, Media and Network businesses. He cherishes mentoring Young Leaders and believes that there is a lot to learn from them.

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 –

Some of his recent media addresses are –

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 also member of the US India Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Fort Worth.

Manish was brought up in Nagpur in Central India and is currently based out of Dallas, USA with his family. Manish completed his Masters in Business Administration (Marketing) 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 and watch classic Hindi cinema & highlights of legendary Cricketers. Here’s a link to a very personal, direct from the heart Podcast – ‘Cracking the Code with Manish Vyas’.

Lakshmanan Chidambaram
President – Americas (Enterprise Business),
Tech Mahindra
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Lakshmanan Chidambaram

Lakshmanan Chidambaram (popularly known as CTL), is a strategic thinker, business and digital transformation leader at Tech Mahindra. As the head of Tech Mahindra’s enterprise business in the Americas region, he has P&L responsibility for one of the largest business units, and is responsible for the company’s growth and expansion across verticals. In this role, CTL is also responsible for executing on Digital Strategy and drive growth through Artificial Intelligence & Analytics, Customer Experience, Digital Engineering and Tech Mahindra’s Platforms.

As a strategist, CTL advises Tech Mahindra & its portfolio companies in the capacity of a member of the board of Tech Mahindra Americas, Mad*Pow and Citisoft. In this role, he provides business insights and drives vertical centric go-to-market differentiated solutions to enable Tech Mahindra to realize its stretched growth objectives.

CTL’s sharp business acumen, a unique mix of knowledge of traditional and new age technology, and excellent people skills make him a leader of choice, one that is both loved and respected by team members, customers and the industry alike. He has demonstrated this while serving in several leadership positions at Syntel & HCL and continues to create a rich legacy at Tech Mahindra.

With over three decades of diverse industry experience, CTL has represented Tech Mahindra on several prestigious international platforms, including the likes of World Economic Forum, G100 Group Meetings and others. He passionately contributes time, skills, knowledge, networks and efforts across multiple subjects close to his heart to drive a positive change in the community.

A champion of diversity, he advocates several initiatives for women as the Executive Sponsor for the Women Leadership Program at Tech Mahindra. His other key social interests lie in the areas of global climate change and the Junior Achievement Program in US (helping youth make better academic choices, plan economic success, and prepare for the future).

In leisure time, CTL enjoys long solo runs and hikes, reads voraciously, and dabbles with social media.

Vivek Agarwal
President – BFSI, HLS and Corporate Development
Tech Mahindra
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Vivek Agarwal

Vivek Agarwal is the President – BFSI, HLS and Corporate Development for Tech Mahindra. He is responsible for creating a robust and differentiated portfolio of offerings for our clients in each vertical, and organic and inorganic investments for building capability. He also oversees our Portfolio Investments, including effective integration and realization of synergies and business objectives. 

Vivek has been with Tech Mahindra since 2004 and took a 2-year sabbatical in between to create an early-stage technology venture. He has been an integral part of Tech Mahindra’s journey over the last 10 years, leading and structuring some of the largest multi-year outsourcing deals and some of our marquee acquisitions. Previously, he was the Managing Director of Tech Mahindra’s European Telecom business. He has a rich multi-functional experience and brings sharp commercial acumen.

Jagdish Mitra
Chief Strategy Officer and Head Of Growth
Tech Mahindra
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Jagdish Mitra

As Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Growth of Tech Mahindra, Jagdish Mitra is responsible for driving global business growth.

Jagdish is passionate about skilling, scaling SMEs, SMBs and startups with a focused interest in Deeptech and Innovation, as well as driving positive change through social empowerment. He currently co-Chairs the Science, Technology & Innovation Committee at FICCI. Additionally, he is a member of CII National Startup Council and on the CII’s National Committee on Skill Development and Livelihood and a member of the CII Council on India @ 75, where he chairs the sub group on Education – Functional Literacy using Digital Tools & Fintech.

Previously, he served as the CEO of CanvasM (a JV between TechMahindra and Motorola). In a career spanning 25+ years, he has played many roles spanning across sales, business development, and large deals. He has opened 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 Jishnu Mitra foundation (JMF) that trains and awards scholarships to high potential kids from challenged backgrounds. He is also a volunteer for the activities of Tech Mahindra Foundation on education and skilling.

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

Harshvendra Soin
Global Chief People Officer and Head Marketing
Tech Mahindra
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Harshvendra Soin

Harshvendra Soin is the Global Chief People Officer and Head of Marketing at Tech Mahindra. Harsh has been associated with Tech Mahindra since 2012. He brings with him a rich experience of more than 26 years in the industry. 

Before his current role, he was heading the Canada Enterprise Business as Senior Vice President and Country Head at Tech Mahindra (Canada). He was also the Global Leadership Acquisition & Development, and Head - Business HR for APAC & IMEA (Telecom & Enterprise) for Tech Mahindra. Before joining Tech Mahindra, Harshvendra was the Chief People Officer at Fortis Healthcare Limited, looking after all areas of Human Resources. He also worked with Aditya Birla Retail Limited as a Chief People Officer before Fortis. Harshvendra has also worked towards creating innovative HR Processes and Policies in Bharti Enterprises where he was Senior Vice President – People Excellence before moving as the Head – HR for Bharti Retail Ltd. He has also worked with the Oberoi Group and Punwire Limited. 

He has been a recipient of many prestigious awards including the HR Leadership Award – Asia Pacific HRM Congress, Ascent - Most Powerful HR Professionals of India Award – World HRD Congress. Other awards include the Talent Magnet Award - Conscious Business Leader Award 2016 by LinkedIn. 

 
 
 

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