Rajendra Singh Pawar is Non-Executive Chairman of the Company.

He is also the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of NIIT Limited, a global leader in skills and talent development, and founder of the not-for profit NIIT University, established with a vision of being the role model of learning, research, innovation and sustainability for the Knowledge Society.

Under his leadership, NIIT has played a key role in shaping the growth of the Indian IT sector, by creating skilled manpower to drive its momentum. Having revolutionized the IT Training industry, he is now involved in establishing an innovative model in Higher Education, the not-for-profit NIIT University.

Mr Pawar did his early schooling in Jammu.  Then moved to The Scindia School, Gwalior and from there to IIT Delhi.

Acknowledging Mr Pawar’s contribution to the IT industry in India, he was awarded the country’s prestigious civilian honour, Padma Bhushan, by the President of India in 2011.

Mr Pawar served as a member on the Prime Minister's National Council on Skill Development (2009-2014) and has also been a part of the PM's National Taskforce (1998), commissioned to develop India into an IT Superpower.   Actively involved in India’s key Chambers of Commerce, Mr Pawar has led several ICT industry fora, including National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) as its Chairman in 2011-12.

Mr Pawar was the Chairman of NASSCOM Cyber Security Task Force that was set up in response to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to see India emerge as a global hub of Cyber Security products and services. He was also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Data Security Council of India (DSCI).

Mr Pawar's contributions have been widely acknowledged and he has been conferred prestigious awards like- Distinguished Alumnus Award at IIT Delhi in 1995; The 'IT man of the Year' by IT industry journal, Dataquest in 1998; 'Master Entrepreneur of the Year' by Ernst & Young in 1999; Madhav Award in 1999 at the Scindia School, Gwalior; Honorary Doctoral Degree by the Rajiv Gandhi Technical University in 2005; Maharaja Gulab Singh Award in 2006; Lifetime Achievement ICT Award 2019 by Dataquest; Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022 by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).  He is a Fellow of the Computer Society of India and is a Distinguished Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers.

Mr Pawar was on the founding Board of Shree Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra.  He is on the Board of Governors of India's premier institutions- the Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad and the Scindia School.  He is currently serving as the Vice Chairman of National Council of Applied Economy Research (NCAER) Governing Body. He has also served on the boards of IIT Delhi, IIM Bangalore, IIM Udaipur and has been a member of the University Court of Delhi University.

Vijay K Thadani is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Company.

He is the Co-Founder of NIIT Group and also serves as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of NIIT Ltd, a leading Global Talent Development Corporation. In addition, he is the Co-Founder of the not-for-profit NIIT University, established with a vision of being the role model of learning, research, innovation and sustainability for the Knowledge Society.

In the past, he served as President of the Indian IT industry association, MAIT and as Chairman of the National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET), under the aegis of the Quality Council of India.

As an active member of CII, he served as the Chairman of CII Northern Region as also chaired CII’s National Committee on Higher Education.

In addition, he served as the Chairman of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad, Chairman of the Board of Governors of MN National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Chairman of All India Board of Technician Education constituted by AICTE and as a member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Currently Vijay serves on the Governing Council of All India Management Association (AIMA) , is a member of Board of Governors of Management & Entrepreneurship and Professional Skills Council (MEPSC) and co-chairs the CII Centre for Digital Transformation.

He also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Triveni Turbine Limited.

He has received the recognition of ‘Distinguished Alumnus” from his alma mater, the premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. In addition, he was honoured with the position of ‘Economic Consultant’ to Chongqing, world’s largest city in the People’s Republic of China.

Sapnesh Lalla is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

He is also non-executive Director of NIIT Ltd, a global leader in skills and talent development and a leading provider of managed training services, offering broad-based education and training solutions to corporations, institutions, and individuals in over 30 countries.

Sapnesh has served in NIIT India and USA for over 30 years. He started his journey as a Project Lead in the Learning Content Development Team and over the years, has held various Management and Leadership roles in Product Management, Customer Support, Channel Development, Sales and Support functions. He has worked on a number of critical initiatives including NIIT’s expansion into North America & Europe and has led significant acquisitions including Cognitive Arts and Element K. He was selected to the Managing Director’s Quality Club (MDQC) in 1997 and received the coveted Global Leadership Award in 2001 and 2010. In 2010, he joined the board of NIIT(USA), Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He led the enterprise business of the company outside India and helped create and grow unique solutions in the areas of Learning content, learning administration & learning technologies. Among others, he led the conceptualization and growth of Managed Training Services outsourcing which are now being delivered to many global firms in the Fortune 500.

In 2017, Sapnesh was appointed CEO of NIIT Ltd. and in August 2021, he was re-designated as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of NIIT Limited. During this period, he had taken charge, learned the role, improved the business and order book, organically & inorganically, streamlined the Stackroute business in India and led the company through the recent difficult pandemic times with determination and perseverance. Since then, he has passionately driven the digital transformation of the company and the agenda to scale up the business on company’s new NIIT Digital platform. He became non-executive director of NIIT Limited on May 24, 2023.

Sapnesh is an Electronics and Communications Engineer from Bangalore University and received his Executive Education at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

Sangita Singh is a global business leader with 30 years of experience in the technology industry. She thrives in new challenges and has reinvented herself several times from heading marketing to enterprise apps and Healthcare & Lifesciences to cloud applications. She has been instrumental in delivering hypergrowth for multi-billion-dollar businesses at IBM as General Manager, Cloud Applications, at Infosys as EVP, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and at Wipro Technologies as Chief Executive, Healthcare & Life Sciences. These positions included key technology portfolios of Applications, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and industries like Healthcare & Life Sciences. She has worked in New York, London and Bangalore.

Currently she is the General Manager at Microsoft India leading the IT & ITeS business.

Earlier,  she was the Growth Acceleration Advisor at VIANAI, a Silicon Valley-based start-up, consulting with CIOs & CDOs in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector, to solve complex business problems with AI and Machine Learning implementations.

Sangita has  experience across product management, enterprise sales and marketing in the global arena and P&L management. Throughout her career, she has helped build high-performance teams and inspired them with an overarching purpose and sense of entrepreneurial spirit.

She is a Partner at Social Venture Partners, a philanthropic network that invests in collaborative solutions – building powerful relationships to tackle communities’ social challenges. She was also a board member at Infosys BPO.

Sangita has been named by Business Today as one of the 30 most powerful women in business for the years 2014 and 2015. Sangita was also recognized by World Economic Forum (WEF) as Young Global Leader in 2010 and 50 on Fast Track by India Today in 2010.

Sangita is Bachelor of Engineering in EE from the NIT, Durgapur, India.

Ravinder Singh graduated in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. Over a career spanning 49 years he has worked in both public and private sector organisations in the areas of Financial Services, Manufacturing and Consulting.

Currently, he is working with USAID on assignments with some of the small island countries in the Pacific region to assist them to develop appropriate polices and processes to access international climate change funds.

Ravinder Singh worked with IQL, a consulting and training company in the area of Change Management and Business Processes, from 1994-2006 and was its head from 1999 to 2006. During this period, he worked closely as a consultant with the CEOs and top management of several of the best known large companies in India.

From January, 2010 to June, 2015, he was a part time consultant with the World Bank, as a member of the panel for accreditation of multilateral and national implementing entities for receiving funds for adaptation projects from the Adaptation Fund.

Ravinder Singh also worked as a Fiduciary Expert Consultant with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) from 2014 to 2016. He also undertook several assignments for the United Nations Framework for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Asia-Pacific region, Bangkok between 2012 and 2017.

Ravinder Singh has also been a certified trainer for Motorola University for its top management programme on Six Sigma.

Ravinder Singh has been a member of the board of the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) of the Quality Council of India (QCI) – a body established by the Government of India in association with CII, FICCI and Assocham for two terms. He was chairman of the Accreditation Committee of NABCB from 2005 to November, 2018.

He started his career as management trainee with State Bank of India and worked for 15 years in the areas of Credit, Branch Operations and HR.

Ravi Garikipati is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in technology and business leadership roles spanning e-commerce, deep tech, fintech and consumer tech businesses. He is also an active angel investor, board member and advisor.

Ravi is Independent Director at Axis Asset Management, guiding the team in building a digital transformation agenda for the business.

As an Independent Director at 5Paisa Capital, he is guiding the leadership team in building a highly personalized  and scalable Trading and Discount Brokerage Platform for retail investors.     As Advisor to ICICI Lombard General Insurance, he is helping in their digital transformation across several areas including customer engagement, CRM, technology infrastructure scale-up and user experience.

He co-founded Davinta, a tech driven NBFC where his focus was  on digital financial inclusion at the bottom of the pyramid, specializing in the financial services industry, providing breakthrough FinServ and FinTech solutions.

Earlier, as Chief Technology Officer at Flipkart, he defined and executed shared technology & services vision and roadmap with focus on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering and overall application architecture for the company.

He was President & CTO at 247.ai Innovation Labs, leading global product and technology groups to build one of the largest omni-channel customer acquisition & engagement platforms driven by predictive modelling hosted in the cloud.

Ravi held various senior engineering management positions at Oracle and Covansys. He has patents in omni-channel predictive experience. Ravi holds a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering and a Masters in Management from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India.

Ms. Leher Vijay Thadani has over twelve years of work experience honing capabilities in diverse areas, including reputation management, crisis communications, public affairs, management consulting and client servicing. Currently, Leher is working with the communications team at Google India. Prior to this, she was  Vice President, Reputation  at Edelman India, a leading global communications firm, developing integrated communications strategies and counseling clients on risk mitigation, crisis communications and stakeholder engagement.

Leher’s experience in public relations and communications spans a variety of sectors, including technology, food & beverage, energy, automotive, chemicals, and government.

Leher’s previous work experience includes supporting Central and State-level government entities on trade and investment promotion as part of Ernst & Young’s Business Advisory Service, and teaching Mathematics in Baltimore, Maryland (USA).

Leher studied Computer Science Engineering and Anthropology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 2007, and earned a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University, Washington, DC in 2011.

Dr. V S Parthasarathy has over 35 years of rich experience wherein he has successfully led businesses, functions, organization transformations and over 125 M&A transactions.

He is on the board of several listed and unlisted companies. He is an Independent Director on Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and Cloudnine Hospitals to mention a couple.

He started his career with Modi Xerox and rose to a position of Associate Director, serving across multiple positions and locations.  In Mahindra Group, where he served more than two decades, his last role was as the President of Mobility Services Sector. Prior to that, he was the Group CFO & Group CIO for seven years. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Mahindra Group Executive Board and been on the board of several listed companies.

He carries out a number of philanthropic activities for women’s empowerment through education, employment and entrepreneurship initiatives of SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association) and is an Independent Director on two of its companies.

He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for his CFO and CIO roles, as also the Business World - Yes Bank Hall of Fame Award; Best CFO of India Award by IMA Corporate Excellence Awards; Digital Icon of India Award by HPE; and CIO 100 – Hall of Fame by CIO after winning the awards for four consecutive years. 

He is a Chartered Accountant from ICAI, India and ICAEW, UK and an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s AMP (2011). He recently completed his PhD from Mumbai university.