Ravi Kumar Singisetti, also known as Ravi Kumar S and S Ravi Kumar, is the

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

of the U.S.-based multinational

information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

services company

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 ...

. Previously, he was the

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of the Indian company

Infosys Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational corporation, multinational technology company that offers business consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services. Founded in 1981 in Pune, the company is headquartered in Bengaluru. On ...

, and earlier in his career, he was a nuclear scientist at the

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is India's premier nuclear research facility, headquartered in Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by Homi Jehangir Bhabha as the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) in January 1954 ...

and worked for Cambridge Technology Partners,

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, and

Publicis Sapient Publicis Sapient is a digital consulting company belonging to Publicis Groupe, with 20,000 people and over 50 offices worldwide. It was originally established as Sapient in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1990. In 2015, Sapient became an independent ...

. In addition to Cognizant and Infosys, Ravi Kumar has also served on the boards of

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, the

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, the

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TransUnion TransUnion LLC is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries including "200 million files profiling nearly every credit-active co ...

, and the

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Early life and education

Ravi Kumar was born in India. He earned an engineering degree at

Shivaji University Shivaji University, established in 1962, is a state university located at Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. The university, with a campus spread over , is named in honour of Chatrapati Shivaji. It was inaugurated on 18 November 1962 by Dr. Radh ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

and a

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular ...

degree at the

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) is a business school in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Established in 1987, XIMB is governed by the Government of India, the Government of Odisha, and the Jesuits. The school was founded under w ...

Career

Early in his career, Ravi Kumar was a nuclear scientist for approximately three years, working on reactors at the

in Mumbai starting in 1991. He became a senior consultant for

and was an associate director at Cambridge Technology Partners. He worked at

from 2000 to 2002 and has also worked for

. Ravi Kumar worked at the Indian

(IT) company

for approximately twenty years, starting in 2002. He served as the company's

from January 2016 to October 2022 and was named deputy

chief operating officer A chief operating officer (COO), also called chief operations officer, is an executive in charge of the daily operations of an organization (i.e. personnel, resources, and logistics). COOs are usually second-in-command immediately after the C ...

in 2017. He also served on the

board of directors A board of directors is a governing body that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency. The powers, duties, and responsibilities of a board of directors are determined by government regulatio ...

. During his tenure, Ravi Kumar oversaw business operations in India, China, Japan, and Latin America; services related to consulting,

digital transformation Digital transformation (DT) is the process of adoption and implementation of digital technology by an organization in order to create new or modify existing products, services and operations by the means of translating business processes into a d ...

, engineering, and technology; and cloud and infrastructure, data and analytics, and "enterprise package applications service lines." Ravi Kumar became the

of the U.S.-based IT company

in January 2023. Ravi Kumar also serves on the company's board and has been described as the highest paid Indian executive in the IT sector. In addition to Infosys and Cognizant, Ravi Kumar has served on the boards of

, the

, and the

. He became a board member of the U.S.–India Strategic Partnership Forum in 2024. Ravi Kumar has also been a member of the Skills Consortium of the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German ...

and the Manhattan chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization.

Personal life

Ravi Kumar was based in

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

when he joined Infosys in 2002. He has lived in Manhattan since 2014.

References

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