National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has announced that the Executive Council has appointed R Chandrasekaran as the Chairman of NASSCOM for the year 2014-15. He is the Executive Vice Chairman of Cognizant India.
Chandrasekaran has been a member of NASSCOM's Executive Council and will take on the new role from April 9. He succeeds Krishnakumar Natarajan, CEO and MD of Mindtree, who served as Chairman of NASSCOM for the year 2013-14.
The Executive Council also announced the appointment of BVR Mohan Reddy, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Infotech Enterprises as the Vice Chairman of NASSCOM .
"Our industry has had a phenomenal journey in the past two decades growing from less than USD 100 million to a USD 100 billion plus sector and NASSCOM will continue to garner opportunities to further catalyse the 2020 vision for the industry." said BVR Mohan Reddy, Vice-Chairman, NASSCOM.