TIME100 AI 2026 · Thinkers
Ravi Kumar S
CEO, Cognizant
Before becoming Cognizant's CEO, he started his career as a nuclear scientist at India's Bhabha Atomic Research Center.
- Born
- Berhampur, Odisha, India
- Now
- Chief Executive Officer, Cognizant
- Studied
- Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Shivaji University
Interesting facts
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Spent about 20 years at Infosys, rising to president, before taking over rival Cognizant three months after leaving.
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Directed a $1 billion investment into Cognizant's AI infrastructure in his first year as CEO.
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Has proposed taxing digital labor so that tech built to replace human work carries the same overhead as human workers.
time.com - Numbers
Celebrated hiring 20,000 entry-level graduates at Cognizant while also budgeting $270 million for severance.
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Career
- CognizantChief Executive Officer2023 to now
- InfosysPresident2002–2022
- Oracle2000–2002
- Sapient
- Cambridge Technology PartnersAssociate Director
- PricewaterhouseCoopersSenior Consultant
- Bhabha Atomic Research CentreNuclear scientistfrom 1991
Education
- MBA, Finance/Systems, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, 1996
- BE, Chemical engineering, Shivaji University
