Virtusa introduces new senior leaders to capture rising demand

Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering and IT services and solutions that help clients change and disrupt markets through innovation engineering, announced several key leadership appointments.

The announcements extend Virtusa’s leadership, vision and reputation as a 
top employer.

Virtusa has a long heritage of providing deep digital engineering skills and industry expertise to clients around the world. It is excited to build on that tradition with the following appointments:

Samir Dhir has been named as CEO Global Markets and Industries, a newly-formed role to lead P&L management for all industry groups and markets worldwide. Dhir has been an instrumental leader during his 11 years with Virtusa. Prior to this appointment, Dhir led the overall P&L management for the Americas.  

Amit Bajoria has been appointed as Virtusa’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), replacing Virtusa’s former CFO, who had previously resigned. Bajoria brings 20+ years of experience at Wipro, most recently as Senior Vice President, Finance and Global Controller, where he was responsible for deal structuring, financial reporting, Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, financial controls and merger and acquisition activities. 

Ram Meenakshisundaram has been appointed as Virtusa’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a new role within Virtusa to lead lines of service, including technology strategy and solutions, building digital competencies and capabilities and working with Virtusa’s alliance group to enable partner solutions. Meenakshisundaram brings 30+ years of experience, with his last 16 years in leadership roles at Cognizant, most recently as Head of Delivery, Growth Markets, where he was responsible for leading a US $ 4 billion business with a geographically distributed team. Meenakshisundaram also served on the Executive Leadership team at Cognizant.

“These announcements align to our engineering roots while paving the way to an exciting future for our company, employees, partners and clients,” said Virtusa CEO Santosh Thomas. 

“The addition of Ram and Amit bolster an already solid leadership team and their experience and track records will contribute to the growth path we’re on. Samir has done a tremendous job in leading our Americas business and I’m confident in his ability to build upon that success.”   

These appointments report to CEO Santosh Thomas and are effective immediately.