Cognizant appoints Sridhar Thiruvengadam as COO

Cognizant today announced that Sridhar Thiruvengadam will take the role of Chief Operating Officer of Cognizant.

Sridhar will provide strategic leadership for developing the blueprint to strengthen and scale Cognizant’s global backbone to meet the future demands of the business.

Specifically, he will be responsible for ensuring that our people functions, our internal systems and technology, and other core infrastructure are solid, secure and scalable, according to company's announcement.

49-year old Thiruvengadam has been with the firm since its inception and held many leadership positions, anchoring and catalysing Cognizant’s forays into newer growth segments and geographies, building new solution offerings and competencies.

Prior to his current position, Sridhar served as Cognizant’s Executive Vice President, providing direction for Cognizant’s global delivery network and managing global delivery for several high-growth business units.

He also manages the Application Value Management (AVM) Center of Excellence, having pioneered the AVM factory model to industrialize delivery and enable the adoption of outcome/output-based models.
 
Thiruvengadam obtained his Bachelor’s degree in engineering from University of Madras, Chennai, and Master’s degree in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.