Rajesh Nambiar is new CMD of Cognizant India

US-based IT services company Cognizant has announced appointment of Rajesh Nambiar as the chairman and MD of India and a member of Cognizant’s executive committee with effect from November 9, 2020.

Nambiar comes in place of Ramkumar Ramamoorthy who quit Cognizant as CMD India after putting in 23 years at the IT services company in July. Rajesh joins Cognizant which has significant workforce presence in India, from Ciena, a networking, systems and software company, where he was chairman and president of Ciena, India.