Ramkumar Ramamoorthy, Chairman and Managing Director at Cognizant India has resigned after 22 years stint in the company, CEO Brian Humphries told employees. Ramamoorthy joined the company in 1998 as a programme manager with the content division.
In his mail to employees, Brian Humphries said that Ramamoorthy has decided to retire from Cognizant effective 17 July.
Adding to this, Cognizant has also replaced its head of global delivery Pradeep Shilige and brought in former Accenture executive Andy Stafford as the new head of delivery.
Ramamoorthy is the latest among the series of top level exits Cognizant has seen in the last one year. A Cognizant spokesperson confirmed the development. Recently, several senior vice-presidents (SVPs) and vice-presidents (VPs) have resigned from the company that include three SVPs Jaideep Poondir, Rajesh Balaji and Vinayambika Kidiyur, and VPs Archana Ramanakumar and Vikash Gaur.
“While you continue to deliver amazing work for our clients despite COVID-19, this pandemic has underscored our need to become a more global company. Globalizing Cognizant goes beyond our geographic revenue mix, the number of countries we operate in, the diversity of backgrounds and locations of our leadership teams, or how well known our brand is around the world. It also requires us to have a Global Delivery Network that is robust and resilient enough to ensure continuity of service for clients no matter what’s happening in the world,” wrote Humphries in an email to employees. (EOM).
Ramamoorthy, who became chairman in 2019, wrote in his LinkedIn post that he now wants to focus on education, skilling and mentoring entrepreneurs.
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Headquartered in the US, Cognizant is ranked 194 on the Fortune 500.
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