L&T hires about a dozen Cognizant execs

BENGALURU: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has hired nearly a dozen senior executives from Cognizant after the latter had a leadership shakeup to reinvigorate the organisation. The major hires follow last year’s acquisition of Mindtree, indicating that the $21 billion engineering conglomerate has big plans to scale its IT business.

L&T Infotech (LTI), one of L&T’s several technology arms, has hired three Cognizant executives. These include Vikash Gaur, who has joined as EVP and head of cloud, data and digital. Gaur, who was VP of global delivery head & digital engineering at Cognizant, joined in June. Archana Ramanakumar has joined as EVP and global delivery head for consumer (pharma, media and tech). Banwari Agarwal joined in April as EVP. Agarwal spent 21 years at Cognizant and most recently was the global business head of enterprise services, strategic engagements and solutions for digital operations.