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Sri Lankan businessman
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(Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka)
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Biography
Wijeyaraj Kumar Mahadeva (Tamil: குமார் மகாதேவா) is the Sri Lankan American founder, and original chairman and chief executive officer of, Cognizant Technology Solutions. He was the CEO of Cognizant from 1994 to 2003 and was succeeded by Lakshmi Narayanan. Kumar has held senior positions at the BBC, McKinsey, AT&T, and Dun & Bradstreet. He is a member of the Sri Lankan Tamil Ponnambalam-Coomaraswamy family; the son of Deshamanya Baku Mahadeva, an eminent Sri Lankan civil servant who served as chairman of various banks, companies, commissions and boards.