
Prasad Sankaran
Prasad Sankaran is President of Software and Platform Engineering at Cognizant. Prasad leads strategy, offerings, solutions, partnerships, capabilities and delivery for digital engineering, digital experience, application development and management and quality engineering and assurance.
Prasad has deep technical and business experience in leading and delivering large, complex IT projects across digital, cloud, infrastructure and application services. Prior to joining Cognizant in November 2022, he was Senior Partner at Bain and Company, a leader in enterprise technology and private equity practices.
Before joining Bain and Company, Prasad spent over two decades with Accenture, where he became Senior Managing Director and held several leadership positions. His previous roles at Accenture included Global Lead for Intelligent Cloud and Infrastructure, Technology Lead of North America and Global Financial Services Lead for Technology.
He was also part of the core team that pioneered the establishment of offshore IT in 2001, which became the foundation of the global delivery model that extended to a network of global delivery centers.
Prasad has a Master of Science in Management Information Systems (MIS) and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Texas A&M University. In addition, he has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India.