Early in his career, Ravi Kumar was a nuclear scientist for approximately three years, working on reactors at the
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai starting in 1991. He became a senior consultant for
PricewaterhouseCoopers and was an associate director at
Cambridge Technology Partners. He worked at
Oracle from 2000 to 2002 and has also worked for
Publicis Sapient. and was named deputy
chief operating officer in 2017. He also served on the
board of directors. During his tenure, Ravi Kumar oversaw business operations in India, China, Japan, and Latin America; Ravi Kumar became the
chief executive officer of the U.S.-based IT company
Cognizant in January 2023. Later that year, Kumar directed a $1 billion dollar investment toward the development of Cognizant’s
artificial intelligence infrastructure. Ravi Kumar also serves on the company's board In addition to Infosys and Cognizant, Ravi Kumar has served on the boards of
Digimarc, the
International Tennis Hall of Fame, the
New York Academy of Sciences,
TransUnion, and the
United States Chamber of Commerce. He became a board member of the U.S.–India Strategic Partnership Forum in 2024. Ravi Kumar has also been a member of the Skills Consortium of the
World Economic Forum and the Manhattan chapter of the
Young Presidents' Organization. In 2025, Kumar was named to
Time Magazine’s TIME100 list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence. == Personal life ==