Nachiket Deshpande

AI Services: New business group focused on new AI economy with comprehensive services portfolio across AI advisory, AI engineering, AI solutions and Outcome based platform operations reimagined with AI. This will be delivered via AI Studio and Agentic AI marketplace. Strategic Deals: Spearhead pursuit of complex, multi-year client engagements. Global Research and Technology Advancement: Aligning our Global Technology Office (GTO) research agenda, identify and evaluate emerging technologies, forging strategic partnerships with academic institutions to fuel our innovation pipeline and ensure long-term growth Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Strategy: Lead our strategic M&A initiatives, facilitating rapid market entry, expanding our customer base, and acquiring critical technologies to enhance our competitive edge. Partnership and ecosystem development: Providing strategic direction to our key technology partnerships and renewed focus on nurturing and expanding our local academia relationships.

Banking & Financial Services is Cognizant’s largest industry practice globally. As Global Delivery Head, Nachiket is responsible for shaping and driving BFS business’s strategy, technology innovations, client relationship management and delivery across the three lines of service - Cognizant Digital Business, Cognizant Digital Operations and Cognizant Digital Systems & Technology. In addition, he oversees overall performance, operational effectiveness, and talent management of the BFS practice.

Nachiket led the transformation of CIS into one of the fastest growing businesses at Cognizant. He was responsible for shaping and driving CIS' business strategy, technology innovations and service delivery of comprehensive portfolio of IT Infrastructure services including neXgen offerings across Service Management, Cloud, Automation & Analytics, and IoT. He played a major role in creation of next generation frameworks on 'Infrastructure that Accelerates Business' and ‘Constantly Ready Infrastructure (CRI)’. In addition, he oversaw practice's overall performance, operational effectiveness, and talent management. He played a key role in the TriZetto acquisition due diligence process and was responsible for TriZetto hosting business integration with CIS.

Nachiket incubated the strategically important BFS Product Solutions business to drive growth in emerging markets.

Nachiket played a key role in defining near shore strategy for Cognizant's business in Continental Europe and establishing the Delivery Center in Budapest, Hungary in 2008.

In this role, Nachiket helped setting up one of the top-tier BFS accounts and grew it to one of the largest accounts in Cognizant at that time. He was responsible for managing client relationships, P & L, business development and ensuring successful delivery of multiple engagements for this multi-million dollar account.

Nachiket was client partner responsible for relationship with one of the largest Investment Bank. He started the client relationship for Cognizant and grew it to be multi million dollar relationship for Cognizant.

As an Architect, Nachiket provided technical leadership throughout the lifecycle of multiple eBusiness projects. He was responsible for design, user interface, and technology integration of projects. He helped shape the delivery and interfaced with client technology and business stakeholders.

Senior design engineer responsible for design and architecture for Telecom applications

Software engineering trainee