Kumar Mahadeva

Wijeyaraj Kumar Mahadeva (Tamil: குமார் மகாதேவா) is the Sri Lankan American founder, and original chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), of Cognizant Technology Solutions.[2] He was the CEO of Cognizant from 1994 to 2003[3] and was succeeded by Lakshmi Narayanan. Kumar held senior positions at the BBC, McKinsey, AT&T, and Dun & Bradstreet.[4] He is a member of the Sri Lankan Tamil Ponnambalam-Coomaraswamy family, the son of Deshamanya Baku Mahadeva, an eminent Sri Lankan civil servant who served as chairman of various banks, companies, commissions, and boards.

Kumar Mahadeva
Born
Alma materHarvard Business School, 1978[1]
Known forCEO of Cognizant

See also

  • Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • List of Tamils of Sri Lanka

References

  1. https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=2208
  2. "Cognizant Founder Kumar Mahadeva Named Operating Partner At New York PE Firm GRS Partners". VCCIRCLE. 2006-02-17. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
  3. Sood, Varun (2018-09-13). "Cognizant may replace CEO Francisco D'Souza with an outsider". Mint. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  4. "Kumar Mahadeva". HarvardBusinessSchool. September 2003. Retrieved 2009-02-18.


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