Executive Leadership
- SUDHIR SINGH
CEO & Executive Director
Profile - Ajay Kalra
Chief Financial Officer
Profile - Madan Mohan
EVP & Global Head – TTH
Profile - John Speight
Chief Delivery Officer and Head of Business Advisory
Profile - Gautam Samanta
EVP & Global Head - BFS
Profile - Kannika Sagar
Chief People Officer
Profile - Vic Gupta
Chief Digital Officer & Chief Technology Officer
Profile - Sanjeev Prasad
EVP & Global Business Head – APAC & Coforge DPA
Profile - Alok Datta
EVP & Global Business Head – Coforge BPS
Profile - Suman Konkumalla
EVP & Global Business Head – Salesforce BU
Profile - Shailendra Agrawal
EVP & US Geo Head
Profile - Rajeev Batra
EVP & Global Head - Insurance
Profile - Kishore Krishnan
EVP and Head of Europe
Profile


Sudhir is the Chief Executive Officer of Coforge and serves on the company’s Board of Directors. He joined Coforge in May 2017.
Sudhir brings experience across Unilever (Hindustan Lever), Infosys and Genpact to bear on his current role at Coforge. He has 24 years of industry experience with an exceptional track record of execution, driving robust revenue and margin growth simultaneously, executing business turnarounds and orchestrating successful acquisitions.
As the CEO and Executive Director of the firm Sudhir charted the “Transform at the Intersect” growth strategy of the organization. Under this construct the firm has logged industry leading growth and profits by hyper-focusing on the Financial Services and Travel industries.
The “Engage with the Emerging” technologies vision of the firm has allowed it to incubate and industrialize emerging technologies including Cognitive, Blockchain and Automation. Sudhir remains personally and intensely engaged with the firm’s clients to ensure that the execution rigor remains intact.
As an author and a public speaker, Sudhir regularly communicates his views about the changing industry landscape, the workforce of tomorrow, tech disruption in the Financial Services industry, and change /growth leadership. He is a strong advocate for inclusion in the workplace; and for building bridges with academia.
Sudhir started his career in 1995 with Unilever (Hindustan Lever). During his six-year Sales and Brand Management stint with Unilever in India Sudhir won the prestigious Hindustan Lever Chairman’s Award “for exceptional performance”.
Subsequently, he spent close to a decade with Infosys in the US. He was an Invitee to the Infosys Management Committee, the Head of the Infosys South-West Geo and also founded and ran the Infosys Global BFS Payments and Cards Portfolio.
At Genpact, Sudhir was the Chief Operating Officer of the Capital Markets and IT Services business. He played a key role in the acquisition and subsequent integration of Headstrong Technologies. During the integration period he served as a Managing Director of Headstrong between 2012-14.
Sudhir is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management.
He is based in Princeton, New Jersey.
Ajay Kalra is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Coforge.
Ajay is a Chartered Accountant and a commerce graduate from Delhi University and brings 25 years of experience as a seasoned Finance Professional with a proven record of being a business partner. He has an established track record and an extensive experience in establishing a solid foundation of compliance & internal controls and creating a "Center of Analytical Excellence" incorporating specialized resources & a knowledge repository. His expertise also encompasses partnering with information technology experts, implementing digital tools and optimization programs, and supporting deal structuring in large USD 100+ million deals to maximize shareholder value.
Till recently Ajay was the Senior Vice President and Global Controller at Genpact managing the Controllership function. In his 20 years stint in Genpact, Ajay has held critical roles in Genpact Finance including leading the Pricing function. He was also the Vertical Finance leader for the High Tech businesses. Prior to Genpact, Ajay held various roles for over 5 years at Modi Xerox Limited.

Madan Mohan is the EVP and Global Head of the Travel, Transportation, and Hospitality vertical business at Coforge.
Madan Mohan is responsible for sharpening the Company's strategy for the Travel and Transportation vertical globally. With over 31 years of experience, Madan has a deep understanding of multiple industries with strong expertise in delivering successful large programs, joint ventures, large deals in the areas of Automation, Data, Analytics, Digital, and BPM.
Madan spent the last 16 years at Infosys in the US where was an invitee to the Infosys Global Management Committee, the Head of South-East US Geo for Infosys, and a six times winner of the Infosys Chairman Excellence Award. Prior to that, he was with TCS where he ran the manufacturing business of global 10 corporations and established an aggressive growth path for the business, structured a JV, and was awarded the TCS Chairman’s award.
Madan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.

John Speight is our Chief Delivery Officer and heads the business advisory group globally across Banking Financial Services, Insurance, Travel Transport & Hospitality and the Geos.
An experienced, business focused IT professional with 30+ years of experience within the financial sector. Having a successful career working as the client and for consulting services enables John to have a view from both perspectives, what challenges, opportunities are faced and how to address.
Over the years, John has held multiple roles, running strategic programs focused on delivering business outcomes. He is a business leader with a strong track record of creating effective leadership teams that can deliver global solutions.

Gautam Samanta is the EVP and Global Head of BFS. In his role, he is responsible for spearheading the Company's growth globally for the BFS vertical. As an additional responsibility, he oversees the firm’s business in Europe with clients who fall outside the core industry verticals of Travel, Transportation, Hospitality and Insurance.He is based in London.
With over 24 years of experience, Gautam comes with a deep understanding of the technology and business consulting landscape acquired through working in a leading financial services institution, a leading software product company as well as two large global consulting and technology services organizations. He has extensive knowledge in driving business transformation, outsourcing, IT and Ops strategy, innovation and sustainability and is highly experienced in complex large deal structuring, creative commercial models and deal negotiation.
Gautam joins from Infosys where he served as Vice President and Global Client Partner - Financial Services and managed fastest growing portfolio of accounts in the Europe. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta.

Kannika holds the position of Chief People Officer at Coforge. She brings over 25 years of rich HR experience spanning across internal business partnering and providing external consultancy to clients. She has worked in multiple geographies including India, United Kingdom and North America across Information Technology, Consulting, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Manufacturing.
Kannika did her Bachelor’s in Psychology from Delhi University. She completed her Post Graduate program in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
In her last assignment she was the Chief People Officer at HCL Infosystems. Prior to this, she was into HR Consulting with Aon Hewitt. With Cadbury, she worked in various roles across geographies ranging --from HR business partnership to being a Change Specialist. She led HR in the yarn division of Arvind Mills and also spearheaded a cultural change initiative via implementation of “Total Quality Management”.

With over 25 years of IT industry experience, Vic leads the Digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) charter for Coforge. He is responsible for the overall Digital vision, roadmap and execution.
Vic has spent over 13 years at Microsoft where he held multiple roles. He has conducted multiple, large scale and successful Digital Transformation programs and initiatives across Fortune 100 commercial enterprises and public sector clients. As a sales professional, he has directly influenced revenues in Business Applications, Cloud Computing and Enterprise Software across various High-Tech Clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As a serial entrepreneur, he ran a Digital Agency with primary focus on digital experience design, digital marketing and digital ecommerce development based out of Manchester, UK.
Vic has worked as a Strategy Leader in the Chief Technology Office of Citicorp/Citibank and was responsible for overall vision and strategy for Distributed Computing. He was instrumental in setting long term strategic technology roadmap for various business operating units of Citicorp/Citibank.
Vic started his career in the USA post a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, working for Department of Navy, under a Naval Captain in Arlington, VA. As a technical professional, he was responsible for architecture and operations of critical business systems.

Sanjeev is EVP and Business Head of APAC business and Coforge DPA.
Sanjeev brings more than 30 years of experience as a Serial Entrepreneur, Business leader and CIO for large global corporations. He has been part of the Global Leadership team at Genpact and Sutherland, and was a founder, COO and director of STG International Ltd., a training and IT services organization which was successfully listed on the BSE in 1999. His initial years were spent in developing products and then managing new product development in leading technology product companies like Nortel, Amdahl and a Healthcare start-up in the Silicon Valley.
Sanjeev’s passion for innovation led growth and creating business value has played a key role in shaping corporate strategy, creating and scaling new lines of business, enabling Business Transformation and in identifying & creating successful new ventures at key technology inflexion points – Client Server to Internet age, Cloud and Now Digital Transformation enabled by Cloud, Cognitive, mobile and Social technologies.
Sanjeev has a MS in Industrial Engineering from University of Texas. He is passionate about Learning, Innovation and building and mentoring leaders. He has also been on the Advisory Board of Oracle, Gartner and Avaya. He is a Certified Coach and an advisor to start-ups. He is also an alumni of Indian Leaders for Social Sector(ILSS). He also invests and mentor start-ups. He loves hiking, travelling and playing golf.

Alok Datta is EVP and Global Business Leader Coforge Business Process Solutions.
Alok has over 27 years of experience in the Banking & Financial services space and has worked extensively with global giants like Bank of America, GECIS & Genpact. His most recent role has been to lead the growth of SLK Global Solutions, a digital platforms and business process services firm that was acquired by Coforge. In that role he grew the revenues 9-fold in a period of 11 years and developed several technology-enabled solutions in business operations and risk management for financial services. He has led large global teams and has a track record of delivering consistent results in both operations as COO as well as in revenue growth as sales head.
Alok comes with deep domain expertise across the Banking and Mortgage industry spectrum. His knowledge of business, operational and risk management areas and a transformational mindset helps drive significant growth for the clients. He is passionate about client delight and has built significant relationships that have helped grow revenues exponentially.
Alok is an active supporter of Feeding America/Hunger Mitao, which supports network of food banks throughout the U.S.
Alok has a Masters in Management from the Birla Institute of Technology. He is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt™ professional and is based out of Dallas, Texas.

Suman Konkumalla, Co-founder and Head of WHISHWORKS
With extensive experience in global IT Consulting, Suman was one of the co-founders of WHISHWORKS. Today, part of the Coforge Group, he leads WHISHWORKS with one goal: success through enablement and innovation.
Steering the passion and commitment of the company's expert teams in India, the UK and the US, Suman ensures that WHISHWORKS is always at the forefront of technology, partnering with industry innovators and delivering transformational solutions to solve real world problems.

Shailendra is EVP and US Geo Head and is part of the Executive Council of Coforge. He is driving growth in US Geo for Retail, CPG, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech & Fintech, Lifesciences and Healthcare, Telecomm, Media and Entertainment and Public Sector for Consulting, Infrastructure Management, Application Management, Digital Transformation, Business Process and Product Engineering services.
In the past Shailendra has led diverse business portfolio including Engineering product and services portfolio for HCL Americas Engineering and R&D services based out of San Jose; Country Leadership for HCL ANZ based out of Sydney, Australia; Energy & Utilities portfolio leadership at Capgemini Mumbai and Sector Leadership for Chemical and Petroleum sector at IBM based out of Bangalore.
Prior to the current assignment, Shailendra was leading the Engineering services for HCL Americas for Retail, CPG, Lifesciences and healthcare, Media, Publishing, Banking and Finance, ISV, Online, Digital and Fintech. He delivered 4 years of consistent 21% Y-o-Y growth. He was instrumental in acquiring many prestigious logos including 4 of the top 30 Forbes fortune companies for HCL Americas.
Prior to that he has led the HCL ANZ Country sales leadership where he was responsible for the business growth for all verticals and horizontals for Australia and New Zealand region. He delivered 3.89 times growth in the portfolio in 4 years timeframe. He strategized and repositioned the company brand and services in the Australian market which resulted in consistent 38% Y-o-Y growth across Cloud, Digital, Infrastructure and Application Management services.
Prior to that he led the Energy & Utilities portfolio for Capgemini India. He helped Capgemini reestablish themselves in the Indian Market. He established engagement with most of the private utilities and Oil & Gas companies. He built many innovative engagements with private Utilities like the first Smart grid project or Cost to serve modelling offering for the Utilities. He saw success with the shared services consulting, SAP ISU billing, Right of Way planning for Transmission and other data driven business intelligence programs.
Prior to that he was the Chemicals and Petroleum sector Leader for IBM Global services India where he grew the Oil and gas portfolio under his leadership span. High focus on building oil and gas expertise amongst the global delivery teams, strong focus on SAP service offerings and extremely high focus on customer satisfaction brought 3X growth in the portfolio.
He was also instrumental in setting up the SAP practice in year 2000 with IBM Global services which is by far the largest SAP practice today.
He is a B.Tech (hons.) Electronics & Telecomm from IIT and MBA (Marketing and Finance) from XLRI.

Rajeev joins us from Capgemini and brings with him 25 years of experience in a variety of leadership roles focused on Insurance go-to-market strategy, New Logos Acquisition, Strategic Account Management, InsureTech Partnerships and Front, Middle and Back office Industry leading solutions. He has been instrumental in building the Insurance GTM playbook and significantly growing/transforming the Insurance/Healthcare portfolio by up-selling Digital Transformation solutions including New Product Innovation, Digital Onboarding, Digital Underwriting, Touchless Claims Operations and Digital Contact Center. These solutions leverage technologies including Artificial Intelligence/cognitive machine learning, Robotic process automation, Customer Experience Design, Mobile applications, Data Analytics and Internet of things (IoT).

Kishore Krishnan is the Executive Vice President and head of Europe, based in London. He is responsible for growing Coforge‘s presence in Europe in Public sector, Media & Telecoms, Healthcare & Life-sciences verticals.
He specialises in partnering with clients to deliver strategic large programs which have annuity revenues and sustainable margins for Coforge. He is also responsible to develop our Low code practice across Europe - helping clients improve their development velocity by leveraging our alliances with Pega and Appian.
With over 22 years experience in the industry he has worked across Europe and successfully delivered large scale transformation programmes that were aimed at improving client’s operational efficiencies and cost optimisation. Prior to joining Coforge, he was with Capgemini (Patni/Igate) for 14 years where he led their Insurance, Life-sciences and Healthcare verticals in Europe.
He is a public speaker and regularly speaks on topics such as business transformation, team building, reduction in technology debt, well-being, diversity and inclusion.