Anjan Lahiri joins Birlasoft as CEO

The CK Birla Group has announced the appointment of Anjan Lahiri as the Chief Executive Officer of its global IT services firm Birlasoft. Passionate about driving an organization’s vision and culture change, Anjan Lahiri is a globally recognized information services expert and one of the co-founders of Mindtree.

Lahiri will be based at the company’s headquarter in Noida UP, will lead a global workforce of over 4,000 employees to steer Birlasoft in its phase of growth. He will also be responsible to bolster the company’s capabilities in the emerging areas of Cloud and Analytics, and to drive synergies with the global clientele across banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors.

Amita Birla Chairman, Birlasoft said, “Birlasoft is going through an interesting growth phase, and Anjan’s appointment comes at the right time. He brings with him a rich experience of growing organizations. His ability to lead high performing teams to the next level of excellence and maturity will benefit our organization. Furthermore, with Anjan we aim to make our delivery teams more agile to changes emerging from end customer behaviour and enable our customers to transform and align to their business goals.”

Anjan Lahiri said, “What I most covet in an organization is its culture and values embodied by its people.  A knowledge company’s entire product comes from the intellect of its people who stand on a foundation of values. I resonated strongly with the values of the CK Birla group, the competency of Birlasoft, and the opportunities that the fast changing IT landscape will provide to nimble organizations in the future. I am privileged to be part of this rich ... See more