Our Leadership

Ashwin Mittal

Chairman and Managing Director

Ashwin Ramesh Mittal is the Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of our Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and a master’s degree in commerce from the University of Mumbai. He is also an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has also completed his Master of Business Administration from Anderson School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles. He has been a Director on our Board since December 10, 2003 and has in the past also served as the president of our Company. He has steered and architected our growth and has been instrumental in the expansion of our operations. He has been the president of the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network: Mumbai Chapter since its inception in 2015. He has been recognised by Analytics India Magazine as one of the “50 most influential AI leaders in India-2021” and one of the “10 most influential analytics leaders in India-2020”, and by the Economic Times as one of the “Promising entrepreneurs” in 2016. He is currently a part of the AIM Leaders Council constituted by the Analytics India Magazine. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (Mumbai Chapter).

Ramesh Mittal

Non-Executive Director

Ramesh Brahmadutt Mittal is a Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of our Company. He has completed two out of three years in the Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Government Polytechnic Pune. He has been associated with the Mittal Builder group for the last 40 years and is currently on the board of inter alia Eskays Land Developers Private Limited, and Sealink Construction Co. Pvt. Ltd. He is also a trustee of Balak Education Society and Mittal Foundation Trust (formerly known as Shree Ayurved Prachar Sanstha). He was originally on our Board from December 10, 2003, till July 27, 2011. He has since been re-appointed as a Director and has been on our Board since June 30, 2014.

Sheila Mittal

Non-Executive Director

Sheila Mittal is a Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of our Company. She has passed the Intermediate Arts Examination held by the University of Bombay. She has been associated with the Mittal Builder group which for the last 40 years and is currently a director of inter alia Cambria Investments & Finance Private Limited, Elephant Trading Company Private Limited and Protiz Technologies Private Limited. She has been a Director on our Board since December 9, 2021.

Simon Chadwick

Independent Director

Simon Charles Hamilton Chadwick is an Independent Director of our Company. He holds a master’s degree in arts from Exeter College, University of Oxford. He has also completed the “Leading Change and Organisational Renewal” program from Harvard Business School. He is co-managing partner and fifty percent equity holder at Cambiar, LLC since May 20, 2004. He has been recognised in the Insight250 as an innovator by Mtab in 2021 and has also been recognised for his ‘distinguished service and leadership as Chair of the Board of Directors’ by Insights Association in 2017. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Marketing Science Institute and has also received a certificate of appreciation from CASRO. He has been a Director on our Board since December 9, 2021.

Vikas Khemani

Independent Director

Vikas Khemani is an Independent Director of our Company. He is a registered member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has passed the final examination held by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has been part of the FICCI’s Capital Markets Committee since 2017. He was also a member of CII’s National Council on Corporate Governance for the year 2016-17 and 2017-18. He had in the past, been associated with Edelweiss Securities Limited for over 16 years and served as their president institutional equities. He has been a Director on our Board since December 9, 2021.

Vinati Saraf Mutreja

Independent Director

Vinati Saraf Mutreja is an Independent Director of our Company. She holds a bachelor’s degree in applied science and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been part of Vinati Organics Limited for over 15 years and is currently their managing director and CEO. She has won the “Outstanding Woman Business Leader” award in the Family Business Awards 2019 organised by the Economic Times. She has also listed in the “40 under Forty” by Economic Times in 2019. She has been a Director on our Board since December 9, 2021.

Mohanbir Sawhney

Mohanbir Sawhney was appointed as a member of the SAB with effect from July 2015 and is currently employed with Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University as Associate Dean of Digital Innovation, McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology, Clinical Professor of Marketing, and Director of the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation. He is also part of the board of directors of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited.

Douglas Hillary

Douglas Hillary was appointed as a member of the SAB with effect from August 16, 2021 and is currently the founder and managing partner of Orbea Services LLC since April 2017. He has over 30 years of experience in the industry and has been associated with Motorola Solutions, United States, for over seven years from July 1, 1990 to September 6, 1997 and Dell Inc., United States as SVP, Business Intelligence, for 19 years and seven months from September 1996 to April 2017.

Ashwin Mittal

Chairman and CEO

Ashwin Ramesh Mittal is the Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of our Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and a master’s degree in commerce from the University of Mumbai. He is also an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has also completed his Master of Business Administration from Anderson School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles. He has been a Director on our Board since December 10, 2003 and has in the past also served as the president of our Company. He has steered and architected our growth and has been instrumental in the expansion of our operations. He has been the president of the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network: Mumbai Chapter since its inception in 2015. He has been recognised by Analytics India Magazine as one of the “50 most influential AI leaders in India-2021” and one of the “10 most influential analytics leaders in India-2020”, and by the Economic Times as one of the “Promising entrepreneurs” in 2016. He is currently a part of the AIM Leaders Council constituted by the Analytics India Magazine. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (Mumbai Chapter).

Nitesh Jain

President and Chief Operating Officer

Nitesh Jain is the President and Chief Operating Officer of our Company. In his role, he is responsible for driving the Company’s growth agenda, strategy, customer success, employee experience and solutions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Maths & Statistics, with an MBA in Finance from Pune University. Prior to joining our Company, Nitesh served as Vice President & Cluster Head, UK&I and as Global Business Head for Travel, Hospitality, and Public Sector verticals at Wipro Limited. He was the founding leader of Wipro’s Analytics practice. Prior to Wipro, he worked with iflex Solutions Limited and Tata Infotech Limited in business leadership roles. Nitesh has authored and co-authored several thought leadership papers and blogs based on his extensive experience in Analytics for various industry verticals including Consumer, Retail, Travel, Public Sector, Technology, Manufacturing and Media.

Farid Kazani

Executive Vice President – Corporate Development & Finance

Farid Kazani is the Executive Vice President- Corporate Development and Finance of our Company. He joined our Company on October 1, 2021. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from University of Bombay and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has also passed the final examination for the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. Prior to joining our Company, he held leadership roles and worked across workstreams in finance functions at organizations like Majesco Limited, Firstsource Solutions Limited, RPG Enterprises Limited, BPL Mobile Communications Limited, Piramal Enterprises Limited and National Organic Chemical Industries Limited. He has been awarded the “Best Digital Transformation Critical Finance Expert” at the Global CFO Excellence Awards 2019 by Acquisitions International Magazine. He has also been awarded the “India CFO award for excellence in Mergers and Acquisitions” by IMA and Pierian in 2016 and received the “Recognition of Excellence” by CFO100 for five years from March 2015 to 2019. He was also admitted to the CFO Roll of Honour by CFO100 in March 2013.

Anees Merchant

Executive Vice President – Global Customer Growth & Success

Anees Merchant is the Executive Vice President- Global Customer Growth & Success of our Company. He joined our company on June 10, 2013. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Marketing Management from NMIMS. He has completed the ‘Finance for Senior Executives’ and ‘Driving Growth Through Innovation- India’ programs from Harvard Business School. He has also received Lean Management Certification from the Benchmark Six Sigma Awards. Prior to joining our company, he was an Associate Principal at eClerx Services Ltd and has worked with companies like Wipro Spectramind Services Pvt. Ltd., Stream Tracmail Pvt. Ltd., Microgate Corporation, Hardcastle Restaurants Private Limited, and IBS Infotech.

Ajith Sankaran

Senior Vice President – Operations, Information Privacy & Data Governance

Ajith Sankaran is the Senior Vice President of Operations, Information Privacy and Data Governance of our Company. He joined our Company on March 27, 2006. He holds a bachelor’s degree in technology in mechanical engineering from the University of Calicut and a master’s degree in Business Administration from PSG College of Technology, Bharathiar University. He is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), a certification awarded by the Institute of Management Consultants of India. Prior to joining our Company, he has worked at IDC (India) Limited, Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., and the Madras Consultancy Group.

Suchitra Eswaran

Senior Vice President - Life Sciences

Suchitra Eswaran is the Senior Vice President-Life Sciences of our Company. She joined our Company on March 5, 2012. She holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce (Marketing) from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Louisiana Tech University. She also completed the Harvard Business School online certificate program on leadership principles. Prior to joining our Company, she was associated with Manthan Software Services Private Limited Infosys Technologies Limited and NuWare Technology Corporation. She was also a first director and the chief executive officer at Strata Pro Analytics & Consulting Private Limited.

Prashant Bhatt

Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Prashant Bhatt is the Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of our Company. He joined our Company on July 1, 2009. He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He holds a bachelors’ degree in commerce from University of Bombay. Prior to joining our Company, he was the chief finance officer at Fractal Analytics Pvt. Limited and has worked with Godrej Agrovet Limited

Jayachandran Ramachandran

Senior Vice President - Artificial Intelligence Labs

Deepesh Joishar

Company Secretary and Compliance Officer

Deepesh Shamji Joishar is the Head Legal, Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of our Company. He joined the Company on December 2, 2019, and he was appointed as the Company Secretary with effect from January 1, 2020. He holds a bachelors’ degree in commerce from University of Mumbai and a bachelors’ degree in law from University of Mumbai. He is as associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Prior to joining the Company, he was associated with Future Retail Ltd., Mercator Limited, Jet Airways (India) Ltd., Arthimpact Digital Loans Private Limited and Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services Ltd.

Ajit Sivadasan

Ajit Sivadasan was appointed as member of CAB with effect from November 3, 2020 and is currently employed with Lenovo as a VP/GM Global eCommerce.

Brian King

Brian King was appointed as member of CAB with effect from November 1, 2020 and is currently employed with Lenovo as a VP, Digital Transformation.

Ivor Dorkin

Ivor Dorkin was appointed as a member of CAB with effect from September 28, 2020 and is currently employed with National Bank of Fujairah PJSC as Head of Credit with effect from October 2021.

Kalindi Mehta

Kalindi Mehta was appointed as member of CAB with effect from November 1, 2020 and was employed with Colgate-Palmolive for over 16 years.

Ram Iyer

Ram Iyer was appointed as member of CAB with effect from November 1, 2020 and is currently employed with Microsoft as Worldwide Director – Digital Strategy and eCommerce with effect from June 2016.

Richard Thorogood

Richard Thorogood was appointed as a member of CAB with effect from November 3, 2020. He is currently the founder and owner of Good Rich Thinking which is engaged in the provision of marketing consultancy services. He previously worked at Colgate in the United States for 16 years and retired with effect from October 1, 2021.