Anjan Lahiri was the CEO of Birlasoft, the global IT services company of the
CK Birla Group
CKA Birla Group (previously CK Birla Group) is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Birla Tower on Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, India. The group has been historically led by industrialists Braj Mohan Birla and Ganga Prasad B ...
.
Education
Lahiri is an alumnus of the
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT, Mesra) is a government funded technical institute (GFTI) situated at Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. It was declared as a deemed university under Section 3 of the UGC Act. The institute was included under ...
, where he earned a
Bachelor of Technology
A Bachelor of Technology (BTech) is an undergraduate degree that is awarded for a higher education program in engineering.
Countries
Australia
In Australia, the Bachelor of Technology degree is offered by RMIT University, Edith Cowan Univ ...
degree in electrical and electronics engineering. Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, is part of the CK Birla Group. He also holds an MBA from the
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...
, Gainesville, USA.
Career
He began his career with
Wipro Infotech in 1987 as part of the sales team and then moved on to start
Cambridge Technology Partners
Cambridge Technology Partners (Japanese: ケンブリッジ・テクノロジー・パートナーズ株式会社, CTP) is a Japan-based multinational professional services company that specializes in business and IT consulting.
The company is ...
’ internet services consulting practice in the US. In 1999, Lahiri along with ex-colleagues from Wipro and Cambridge Technology Partners set up
Mindtree
Mindtree Limited was an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, headquartered in Bangalore. Mindtree was acquired by Larsen & Toubro in 2019, before being merged with L&T Infotech (LTI) in 2022 to form L ...
. Lahiri set up Mindtree's offices in
New Jersey
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,
San Jose and
London
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, and expanded the company's operations in the
US and
Europe
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. He returned to India in 2008, as the head of IT Services at Mindtree.
He moved on from Mindtree in 2013, especially in the field of technology. Until recently, he was the CEO of the Bangalore-based
Sasken Communication Technologies
Sasken Technologies Limited (formerly Sasken Communication Technologies Limited) is an Indian multinational technology company, based in Bangalore, India, which provides product engineering and digital transformation services to global custom ...
where he focused on turning around the loss-making company.
Personal life
He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, a global peer network of chief executives and business leaders. He is married and has a daughter and a son. His father was an officer, in the Indian Army's Gorkha regiment.
References
External links
Business Standard Website BCS Google Books
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American technology chief executives
University of Florida alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)