On Saturday, Infosys appointed Capgemini's former executive Salil Parekh as CEO and managing director effective from Jan 2, 2018 putting and end to its two-month search for the same. Parekh will replace UB Pravin Rao, who was interim CEO and managing director since August.

Parekh was a member of the Group Executive Board at French IT services company Capgemini and has Master of Engineering degrees in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering from Cornell.

He is also an IIT product, and has a B.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT, Bombay.