Ravi Kumar Singisetti
Indian businessperson
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Ravi Kumar Singisetti, also known as Ravi Kumar S and S Ravi Kumar,[3][4] is the chief executive officer of the U.S.-based multinational information technology services company Cognizant. Previously, he was the president of the Indian company Infosys, and earlier in his career, he was a nuclear scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and worked for Cambridge Technology Partners, Oracle, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Publicis Sapient.
Early life and education
Ravi Kumar was born in a Telugu family in Berhampur, Odisha, India.[5] He earned an engineering degree at Shivaji University in Maharashtra and a Master of Business Administration degree at the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.[6][7]
Career
Early in his career, Ravi Kumar was a nuclear scientist for approximately three years, working on reactors at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai starting in 1991.[1] He became a senior consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and was an associate director at Cambridge Technology Partners. He worked at Oracle from 2000 to 2002[8] and has also worked for Publicis Sapient.[3]
Ravi Kumar worked at the Indian information technology (IT) company Infosys for approximately twenty years, starting in 2002.[1] He served as the company's president from January 2016 to October 2022[9][10] and was named deputy chief operating officer in 2017.[8][11] He also served on the board of directors. During his tenure, Ravi Kumar oversaw business operations in India, China, Japan, and Latin America;[7] services related to consulting, digital transformation, engineering, and technology; and cloud and infrastructure, data and analytics, and "enterprise package applications service lines."[12][13]
Ravi Kumar became the chief executive officer of the U.S.-based IT company Cognizant in January 2023.[3][14][15] Later that year, Kumar directed a $1 billion dollar investment toward the development of Cognizant’s artificial intelligence infrastructure.[16][17]
Ravi Kumar also serves on the company's board[10] and has been described as the highest paid Indian executive in the IT sector.[18][19]
In addition to Infosys and Cognizant, Ravi Kumar has served on the boards of Digimarc, the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the New York Academy of Sciences,[20] TransUnion,[21] and the United States Chamber of Commerce.[3][22] He became a board member of the U.S.–India Strategic Partnership Forum in 2024.[23][24] Ravi Kumar has also been a member of the Skills Consortium of the World Economic Forum[25] and the Manhattan chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization.[26]
In 2025 and 2026, Kumar was named to Time Magazine’s TIME100 list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence.[27]