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Francisco D'Souza

Indian-American businessman (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Not to be confused with Francisco de Souza.

Francisco D'Souza (born 23 August 1968[1]) is an Indian-American entrepreneur and businessman, who is the former CEO and Vice Chairman of Cognizant — a Fortune 200 global professional services company – co-founded[2] the NASDAQ-100 company in 1994. He succeeded Lakshmi Narayanan as the CEO in 2007[3] and in 2018 was appointed Vice Chairman, while continuing his role as the CEO till 1 April 2019.

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Biography

Francisco D'Souza was born in Nairobi, Kenya as the son of Placido D'Souza[4]—an Indian Foreign Services officer and diplomat who grew up in Pune[4]— and Sushila.[5] He has his roots in Anjuna, Goa.[4] D'Souza spent his childhood in 11 countries and went on to do a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of East Asia Macau[6] and a Master of Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.[6] He has two sisters, Jacinta and Maria.[7]

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Career

After his graduation from Tepper School of Business (Carnegie Mellon University), D'Souza joined Dun & Bradstreet as a management associate in 1992.[8] Cognizant began in 1994 as an in-house project of Dun & Bradstreet, led by D'Souza. From 1996, he held various leadership roles at Cognizant. He was elevated to CEO and joined the Board of Directors of Cognizant in January 2007, and promoted to the Vice Chairman of the Board in June 2018.[9]

In 2013, D'Souza joined the board of General Electric as its youngest director.[9] He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Mellon University[10] and as Co-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Hall of Science.[11]

D'Souza is a member of the World Economic Forum[12] and the 2019 Chairman of the World Economic Forum's IT Governors Steering Committee.[13] He sits on the Board of Directors[14] of The National Medal of Honor Museum.

In November 2019, MongoDB appointed D'Souza to its board of directors.[15]

In July 2020, Banco Santander appointed D'Souza to a top-tier executive position in support of its digital transformation strategy.[16]

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