Wijeyaraj Kumar Mahadeva () is a Sri Lankan American businessman. He is the founding chairman and

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. He was the CEO of Cognizant from 1994 to 2003 and was succeeded by

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. Kumar held senior positions at the

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, and

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. He is a member of the

Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, form the plurality in the Eastern Province a ...

Ponnambalam-Coomaraswamy family, the son of

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Baku Mahadeva, a Sri Lankan civil servant who served as chairman of various banks, companies, commissions, and boards.

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