Cognizant India Chairman Rajesh Nambiar has been appointed as President, Digital Business and Technology (DB&T) of the US-based IT major. He succeeds Malcolm Frank, who will withdraw from the group with effect from September 1, 2021.

Cognizant, states, "On May 28, 2021, Malcolm Frank, Executive Vice President, and President, Digital Business and Technology, notified Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation of his intent to retire, effective September 1, 2021. Rajesh Nambiar, Executive Vice President and Chairman of Cognizant India, has been appointed President (Digital Business and Technology) effective June 4, 2021, succeeding Frank.”

Rajesh will persist to embrace the position of India chairman as well. Meanwhile, Malcolm will stay as an employee through his September 1, 2021 withdrawal date to help with the transition.

Rajesh had been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant’s India operations and a member of its Executive Committee effective November 9, 2020. Proceeding to Cognizant, he was with Ciena, a networking, systems, and software company, where he placed as the Chairman and President of India operations. He has also worked with IBM and Tata Consultancy Services.

Rajesh resides with profound and wealthy proficiency in technology, commercial, and delivery and carries with him deep information of applications, data, AI, analytics, infrastructure, cloud, and consulting to his new role, as per Cognizant Chief Executive Officer Brian Humphries. He added that Rajesh being based in India will benefit from driving better DB&T alignment with the release.