CATALINCS - Key Persons


Rajesh Balaji

Rajesh is a strong believer in the culture of camaraderie and supportive inter-dependency. An inspiring leader with a robust strategy and execution track record, Rajesh has managed multi-billion dollar businesses that drove digital transformation at Global 2000 companies. In his over 23 year journey at Cognizant, he incubated several business units both traditional and cloud businesses, including Salesforce, Workday, IOT, Manufacturing. Logistics, Energy & Utilities and Engineering Services (IoT) and has integrated close to a dozen companies. Rajesh has over 27 years of experience in the IT industry spanning offshore delivery management, solution development, consulting, practice building and business development. Also a Cognizant veteran, Rajesh was Vice President of the organization's healthcare practice and was instrumental in establishing Cognizant's healthcare footprint in Europe. Rajesh was key to successful integrations of Cognizant's healthcare acquisitions (Trizetto and TMG Health to name a few ) and also established a first-of-its-kind large scale global product engineering organization, to enable faster product releases to the market by embracing next-gen technologies to help stay ahead of the curve. Rajesh has also executed complex programs using new outcome based models such as BPaaS to leading Healthcare Payers.

Ram Murali

Job Titles:
  • Global Leader
Ram Murali is a global leader with 25+ years experience spanning Strategy, Operations, Talent Development in addition to leading large business units and incubating new capabilities. From leading Continental Europe business unit for Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities (MLEU) vertical to COO of MLEU unit to Chief of Staff for President, Industry Solutions to Head of Analytics Practice - Ram has had the illustrious experience of playing a variety of leadership roles, across business units in Cognizant. This has given him well-rounded expertise in the multiple facets of a business. His collaborative style of working with various stakeholders internal and external has been instrumental in building capability, nurturing talent, strengthening partnerships and growing the business.