Cognizant India chairman Rajesh Nambiar to replace Malcolm Frank

Nambiar’s appointment is efficient Friday. He will even proceed in his position as chairman, Cognizant India.

Frank, who has been with Cognizant for 16 years, on Might 28 notified the corporate of his intent to retire, in line with a inventory alternate submitting on Friday.

Earlier this yr, Cognizant merged two out of three providers traces — digital enterprise and digital programs and know-how — right into a single, new service line referred to as digital enterprise & know-how beneath Frank. Analysts had lauded the transfer citing that Frank was a preferred determine with CIOs of enterprises.

In an inner observe, chief government Brian Humphries stated Nambiar would deliver “deep information of purposes, knowledge, AI, analytics, infrastructure, cloud and consulting to his new position”.