Brian Humphries (born ) is an Irish businessman who was the CEO of

Cognizant Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational information technology consulting and outsourcing company originally founded in India. It is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Co ...

, from 2019 to 2023.

Education

Brian Humphries was born in the

County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606 in Ireland, 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the Provinces ...

, Ireland. He received his Bachelors of Business Administration with Honors, from the

University of Ulster Ulster University (; Ulster Scots: or ), legally the University of Ulster, is a multi-campus public research university located in Northern Ireland. It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU. It i ...

in 1996.

Career

He began his career with Compaq and

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until ...

. He had various posts at

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from August 2003 to 2013. He joined

in August 2003 as Director of Financial Communications and was raised to Vice President of Growth Markets Organization/Emerging Markets. He also was the President of Enterprise Solutions at

Dell EMC EMC Corporation (stylized as EMC²) was an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, which sold data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services th ...

from 2013 to 2017. Brian joined

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in December 2016 and was CEO of

Business from February 1, 2017 to December 2018. He took over as the CEO of

in April 2019. Under his leadership, Cognizant witnessed severe voluntary attrition rates of 33 percent and non-voluntary attrition of 37 percent (annualized) In January 2023, Cognizant fired Humphries and replaced him with Ravi Kumar S. as CEO. In November 2024, Version 1 appointed Humphries as interim CEO, whilst they search for a successor, replacing Tom O’Connor.

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