<h1><span class="h3">Prasad Sankaran</span></h1> <h5>President – AI Products and Platforms</h5>
<p>Prasad Sankaran, President, AI Products and Platforms, leads the end‑to‑end strategy and execution of the Cognizant AI vision, including portfolio management, offerings, implementation and continuous evolution. His team incubates AI‑native, software‑led offerings, deepens strategic partnerships across the AI ecosystem and is turning proprietary AI research into scalable, market‑ready software that enables clients to move from experimentation to enterprise‑scale adoption.</p> <p>Prasad brings deep experience in leading and delivering large, complex IT programs across digital, cloud, infrastructure and applications. In his four years as President, Software and Platform Engineering (SPE) at Cognizant, he led strategy, offerings, partnerships, capabilities and delivery—laying the foundation for AI‑driven platforms and products.</p> <p>He previously spent over two decades at Accenture, where he rose to the level of Senior Managing Director, holding senior leadership positions that included Global Lead for Intelligent Cloud and Infrastructure, Technology Lead of North America and Global Financial Services Lead for Technology. Prasad was also part of the core Accenture team that pioneered the establishment of offshore IT in 2001, which became the foundation of the global delivery model.</p> <p>Following Accenture, Prasad was a Senior Partner at Bain & Company, a leader in the enterprise technology and private equity practices, until he joined Cognizant.</p> <p>Under his leadership, Cognizant is accelerating a shift toward industrialized, platform‑centric AI—turning innovation into repeatable, outcome‑driven solutions.</p> <p>Prasad has an MS in Management Information Systems and an MBA in finance from Texas A&M University. He also has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Osmania University.</p>