Infosys COO Pravin Rao is Nasscom chief, Accenture's Rekha Menon vice chair

Software services industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), in its first-ever Executive Council meeting held via video conference, named U B Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer, Infosys as Chairman for 2020-21, and Rekha Menon, Chairman and Senior Managing Director, Accenture, India as Vice Chairperson.

Rao was the Vice Chairman in the previous year, and succeeds Keshav Murugesh, Group CEO, WNS Global Services.

Asserting that the IT industry was going through challenging times, Rao nevertheless said the sector had time and again proven its resilience, and would emerge 'stronger and wiser' in the current situation as well .

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