Srinivasan Veeraraghavachary, COO at Cognizant is stepping down, becoming a member of a slew of senior executives of the corporate who’ve stop the corporate since Brian Humphries took over as CEO final April.
Veeraraghavachary, a two decade veteran at Cognizant, held a number of roles together with Company Safety, International IT and gross sales and operations would stay within the organisation until August.
“Shortly after I joined Cognizant, Srini and I mentioned his profession aspirations. He expressed his curiosity in transitioning out of Cognizant to pursue his subsequent problem, but dedicated to remain in his position and supply his assist for the subsequent 12 months,” Humphries wrote in an electronic mail to staff final week. ET reviewed the mail that was confirmed by Cognizant on Sunday.
A minimum of a dozen senior executives have left the corporate together with Santosh Thomas, EVP, president of International Development Markets earlier this 12 months and Gajen Kandiah, president of Digital Enterprise and Digital Engineering and Sumithra Gomatam, president of Digital Operation amongst others, final 12 months.
The corporate indicated in its latest quarterly commentary that there might be future cuts within the workforce, together with in senior roles. Humphries has employed former Unisys government Lawrence Wieser as Chief Administrative Officer, who may also amongst different roles take over the gross sales operations led by Veeraraghavachary.
Weiser was Vice President of International Operations at Unisys for the previous 14 years the place amongst different capabilities he was liable for pricing of contracts.
