Nitesh Banga
President & Chief Executive Officer
Nitesh was appointed President and CEO of Virtusa in February 2025. As CEO, he oversees the company's strategic direction, promotes Virtusa’s Engineering First culture, and focuses on sustainable growth and driving long-term value for Virtusa and its clients. He has extensive experience in digital transformation, engineering services, data and analytics, cloud technology, corporate strategy, sales & business development, service delivery, mergers and & acquisitions, and worldwide operations.
Prior to Virtusa, Nitesh served as President and CEO GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group company, where he was responsible for defining and executing strategy, aligning investments, and ensuring growth, consistency, efficiency, and worldwide operational excellence. Mr. Banga brings nearly three decades of leadership in the IT services industry, including over twenty years at Infosys, where he held various leadership positions around the globe.
Nitesh holds a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Outside of his professional endeavors, he is an enthusiastic sports fan who enjoys following a wide array of sports, including basketball, soccer, cricket, and Formula 1 racing.
Lori Mullane
Chief People Officer
As Virtusa’s Chief People Officer, Lori is tasked with spearheading the global HR organization with a focus on attracting and retaining world-class talent, enabling Virtusa to continue providing cutting-edge services to our valued clients.
Lori has over two decades of leadership experience creating impactful talent solutions that enhance employee and client experiences. Prior to joining Virtusa, she served as a Principal in the Human Capital Advisory practice at KPMG LLP, in addition to leading the Human Resource function for their Advisory business. Before that, Lori led Human Resources for the Americas business at Cognizant, where she focused on building a leadership pipeline and creating development and career opportunities for the company's over 40,000 employees. In her earlier years, Lori held various leadership roles at Unisys Corporation, where she built the people strategy for emerging markets in India, Eastern Europe, and China.
Lori, a Penn State University graduate, is a Penn State Great Valley campus board member. She is based out of Philadelphia, PA.
Amit Bajoria
Chief Financial Officer
Amit Bajoria is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Virtusa Corporation and is responsible for Business finance, Controllership, Internal audit, Financial Planning and Analysis. He has extensive experience in deal structuring, driving levers for operating margin, financial planning, M&A integration, driving cash flows and setting up strong processes.
Before joining Virtusa, Amit spent 15 years in leadership roles at Wipro, most recently as Senior Vice President - Finance & Global Controller, where he was responsible for deal structuring, financial reporting, Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, financial controls, and merger and acquisition activities. He has overall 21 years of experience in Wipro with the design and implementation of global finance activities.
Amit graduated from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and is a qualified chartered accountant.
Ram Meenakshisundaram
Chief Technology Officer
Ram Meenakshisundaram is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Virtusa Corporation and is responsible for leading our Lines of Service, including technology strategy and solutions, building digital competencies and capabilities, and working with Virtusa's alliance group to enable partner solutions.
He was earlier employed with Cognizant for over 15 years, where he served as head of Delivery, Growth markets. He was responsible for leading a $4 billion business with a geographically distributed team. Previously, he was the delivery head for their Life Sciences, Information, Media and Entertainment verticals, and a SBU leader in their Banking and Financial services vertical. Ram has also served on the Executive Leadership team at Cognizant. Prior to Cognizant, Ram worked with iNautix Technologies, EDS, and TCS in many roles.
Ram graduated from Jadavpur University, Kolkata with a degree in Production Engineering.
Venkatesan Vijayaraghavan
Chief Operating Officer
Venkatesan has 25+ years of experience in technology and operations services and strong financial service background. His expertise spans primarily around scaling segments of businesses in technology services exponentially. He has vast experience managing global clients and has expertise in servicing clients across North America, Europe, and Asia, both in delivery and commercial roles. His ability to set up teams for strong collaboration across delivery and practice has produced outstanding results in growing business segments.
Paul Tutun
General Counsel
Paul D. Tutun joined Virtusa Corporation in July 2003, and provides advice primarily to the executive team, board of directors and committees of the board and is responsible for all the company’s general corporate matters including client contracts, SEC filings and compliance, employment and real estate matters and equity compensation. Paul has over 15 years of experience representing technology companies and investment banks in mergers and acquisitions, initial and follow-on public equity offerings, ongoing public company and other related technology matters.
From 1994-2001, Paul was a corporate associate at Goodwin Proctor, Hoar, Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault. From 2001 to 2003, Paul was corporate counsel to MarketSoft Corporation.
Paul holds a BA in English from Colgate University and earned a J.D., cum laude, from the Boston University School of Law. He was also managing editor of the B.U. International Law Journal. His publications include, “Arbitration Procedures under the United States-German Income Tax Treaty: The Need for Procedural Safeguards in International Tax Disputes,” 12 B.U. Int’l L.J. 179 (1994).
Ramaswamy P V
Chief Information Officer
Ramaswamy P V is the Chief Information Officer of Virtusa Corporation and is responsible for leading our IT driven business transformation with a digital inside & user centric focus in the organization.
Ram P is a digital transformation leader with a solid 28 years of experience in the industry and served at HCL, where he led digital transformation, application modernization & data driven analytics as a Senior Vice President. He has been in leadership roles at HCL, Siemens, AIG and Mphasis and comes with 360-degree exposure in domain, delivery, pre-sales, and the CIO function and worked closely with global CXOs across fortune 500 enterprises.
Ram P completed his computer education at NIIT, is SAP certified, and has a Master’s degree in Accountancy & Costing from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and a Master’s degree in Law, Accounting and Finance from The Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
Josh Soldati
Head of Alliances
As the Head Of Alliances for Virtusa, Josh is responsible for building and growing deep relationships with the world's leading technology companies. Josh firmly believes that strong partnerships enable Virtusa to drive innovation and breakthrough business outcomes for our clients. Josh has over 25 years of experience in IT services, including sixteen years at Cognizant, where he led Strategic Partnerships and held various other leadership positions. Josh is a graduate of Columbia University and is based out of the Pacific Northwest in Oregon.
Brian Jochum
Chief Marketing Officer
As Virtusa’s Chief Marketing Officer, Brian leads a global marketing organization tasked with defining Virtusa’s brand and resulting value propositions across all lines of business as well as creating and delivering the go to market sales enablement programs that support both horizontal technology and vertical industry domains for the company.
With 25 years of experience leading world-class brands across consumer products, consumer retail and professional services, Brian brings a unique understanding of the intersection of brand and business. Brian began his career at Procter & Gamble where he spent 10+ years in the brand management function for some of the world’s best-known beauty and hair care brands. He then transitioned to the retail industry by leading brand management and direct to consumer sales for well known private label brands like Craftsman tools and Kenmore appliances at Sears Holdings. Most recently he made the leap to professional services with marketing leadership roles at Accenture and Tata Consulting Services, the world’s two largest IT services companies by revenue.
Brian resides in the greater Chicago area, is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, and is a proud husband and father of teenage twin boys.
Jayajyoti Sengupta
Chief Sales Officer and
Head of Growth Markets
Jayajyoti Sengupta (JJ) is an accomplished leader in the global technology sector with a career spent driving transformative growth across 4 continents. As the Chief Sales Officer and leader for Growth Markets at Virtusa, JJ provides management oversight over global sales, marketing, and strategy as well as Virtusa’s business in Europe, UK, Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
JJ's extensive experience includes leadership roles at Accenture, where he was a member of the Global Leadership Council, and at Cognizant, where he played a crucial role in expanding operations in both Europe and the Asia Pacific. He began his career in Management Consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers before holding roles of increasing responsibility at TCS and Infosys. JJ has been recognized as a thought leader by the international press and prestigious organizations like the World Economic Forum, all while helping his clients win multiple international awards.
He holds post-graduate degree in Information Systems from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) as well as an Engineering degree from Jadavpur University. He has also participated in the Stanford Executive Institute from Stanford University.
Div Prakash
Head of Global Practices
Div Prakash leads Virtusa’s Practices organization, overseeing the development and growth of our global service lines. With a mandate to drive innovation, platform engineering, and cross-industry transformation, Div helps clients modernize their digital core and unlock enterprise value at scale.
Over his 13+ year tenure at Virtusa, Div held several strategic leadership roles across delivery and engineering, including Global Cloud, Data and Digital Platforms Offerings Head, Global Engineering Head for a flagship financial services client and Head of Delivery for XLabs, serving clients in healthcare, life sciences, and insurance. Under his leadership, Virtusa has significantly expanded its cloud-native delivery capabilities, global innovation hubs, and partner-aligned solution offerings.
Prior to Virtusa, Div held senior technology leadership roles at TruePosition, Optovia, Axiowave, and BMC Software, where he led engineering and product development for high-availability, location-based, and network management systems. He began his career at BGS Systems and Fidelity Investments, with a focus on performance engineering and capacity planning for large-scale enterprise systems.
Div holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from UMass Boston and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from BVM Engineering.
Darshana Pai
Head of Delivery Excellence and Transformation
Darshana Pai heads Head of Delivery Excellence and Transformation at Virtusa. The charter for this function is to create next-gen delivery platform powered by tools, automation and predictive analytics to achieve business goals. This scalable platform will help organization to deliver solutions to global customers with speed, quality and predictability. Delivery governance focuses on creating and auditing controls to ensure robust risk mitigation strategy.
Prior to this role, Darshana was heading Virtusa’s Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Business unit for Americas, Europe and Rest of World regions. She was responsible for enhancing customer experience through delivery excellence, employee engagement and growth of this SBU. She led a large team of professionals across delivery centers in Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and onsite client locations. She also has extensive experience in running complex business and technology transformation programs delivering business outcomes to customers.
Darshana joined Virtusa as Hyderabad Center delivery head. In this role, she helped scale the center from 1000 employees to 3500 employees by building strong delivery leadership team, grooming talent from within and running campus recruitment and training programs.
For helping Virtusa’s clients solve the business problems that they face today through her experience and industry perspective, Darshana has been recognized by the industry and honored with:
- “Women Leadership Achievement Award in the IT sector-2014” by the World Women Leadership Congress and Award (WWLCA).
- “Women Achievers in IT-2014” award under the ‘Business leader’ category at INTEROP 2014. INTEROP is a leading global independent technology conference and platform.
- Named as one of the “Top 20 Women in IT – 2014” by Dataquest magazine in the August 2014 issue.
- “Best Woman Corporate Leader-2013” award by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC).
Prior to joining Virtusa Corporation, Darshana worked in leadership positions for organizations such as Wipro, Capgemini, Satyam and Patni Computers over the last 20 years. She brings in varied professional experience from the IT Industry after having led large teams delivering multi-million-dollar IT solutions to customers in Retail & CPG, Finance, Energy & Utilities, Travel & Leisure, Logistics and Government sectors spread across Europe, US, Australia, Singapore and Japan. Darshana has travelled extensively across the globe and brings with her vast knowledge and experiences on people, culture, technology and business.
Darshana has a B.E. degree from Mumbai University, and has done her Masters in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Sanjeev Gulati
Head of Enterprise Architect Group
Sanjeev Gulati leads Virtusa’s Enterprise Architect Group and other key transformational initiatives.
In his previous role at Virtusa, Sanjeev led Digital Transformation initiatives for the Americas and provided leadership and direction to the domain and technical capability-building initiatives and the “Go To Market” strategy. He also led the Business Consulting team. Prior to that role, Sanjeev was the P&L owner of Virtusa’s largest Strategic Business Unit.
Prior to Virtusa, Sanjeev had a 17-year-long association with Polaris, where he was Head of Business for the Americas, responsible for the business in Canada, the USA, Mexico, and South America. Prior to this, Sanjeev was Global Account Director for Polaris’ largest Banking and Financial Services client.
Before joining Polaris, Sanjeev worked with companies such as Madura Coats (Coats Viyella), National Grid, and National Power (UK) in roles as diverse as Marketing & Product Management, Consulting, and Business Strategy.
Sanjeev holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Sanjay Deshpande
Head of Banking, Communications
and Emerging Industries
Sanjay Deshpande heads North America Head of Banking, Communications and Emerging Industries, and is responsible for the overall P&L management, business growth strategy and execution across the region.
Sanjay has successfully established and grown businesses across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia/Asia-Pacific markets. Prior to his current role, he was based out of London, UK, leading Virtusa’s international banking business across EMEA & APAC.
Sanjay joined Virtusa through its acquisition of Polaris where he was a Partner and played key leadership roles like the Chief Sales Officer for the Americas, Head of business development for Americas & Europe and board member of Polaris Canada. He is also recognized for growing Polaris’ flagship intellect universal banking product suite business manifolds across various geographies.
Prior to joining Polaris, Sanjay worked with various organizations in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) space in the Indian Sub-continent & the Middle East and successfully established a Contact Center Technology start-up for one of the leading conglomerates in the UAE.
He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Business Administration. He also has Certifications in - Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School, Sustainability Finance from University of Cambridge, and Financial Markets from Yale University.
Sumit Kaushik
Head of Technology, Media
and Information Services
Sumit Kaushik heads the Technology, Media, and Information Services business lines and is responsible for overall P&L management, business growth strategy, and execution.
In a career spanning two decades, he has been instrumental in creating large accounts and partnerships. He has been responsible for creating new service lines, unique business models and entry into new geographic markets.
Sumit started his career as a software engineer developing software product for industrial automation and business applications. He continues to invest his time in tracking and analyzing newer technologies and trends impacting different industries. He is passionate about cyber safety and wellness for kids and students.
Jay Kathiresan
Head of Strategic Accounts
Jay leads one of Virtusa’s most strategic global banking relationships, overseeing transformation initiatives, delivery excellence, and long-term value creation for a marquee client in the financial services sector.
With over 25 years of global experience across IT outsourcing, technology products, and domain consulting, Jay brings deep expertise in strategic account management and C-level relationship development. Since joining Virtusa in 2017, he has been instrumental in driving growth, shaping digital transformation programs, and expanding delivery capabilities across geographies for one of the company’s largest clients in the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) segment.
Before Virtusa, Jay served as a Global Client Partner at Wipro, where he was responsible for key financial services accounts. Prior to that, he spent nearly 14 years at Iris Software, where he held a leadership role, focused on enterprise technology services and client engagement. He began his career as Executive Director at Ultimaa Technologies, helping drive early growth in consulting and implementation services.
Jay holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications from Bharathiar University.
Mangesh Gupte
Head of Strategic Accounts
Mangesh Gupte leads Virtusa’s Strategic Accounts organization, driving growth and delivery excellence across some of the company’s most critical client relationships.
Currently, Mangesh heads one of Virtusa’s largest and longest-standing strategic accounts within the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) segment. He is responsible for steering large-scale digital and cloud transformation programs, strengthening global delivery, and accelerating client value through innovation and execution..
Prior to Virtusa, Mangesh served as Consulting Practice Director at Oracle Financial Services Software, where he managed multiple BFS accounts and successfully scaled several into high-growth partnerships. He began his career in technology leadership roles at Mphasis, Tata Interactive Systems, and NIIT, where he was involved in rolling out major customer-facing platforms across the Asia-Pacific region.
Mangesh holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Mumbai.