Brian Humphries (IT businessman)

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Brian Humphries
Alma mater	University of Ulster
Occupation	CEO Cognizant

Brian Humphries is a businessman who is currently the CEO of Cognizant. He replaced Francisco D'Souza as the CEO of Cognizant on April 1, 2019.^[1]

Career[]

Brian Humphries is a graduate of the University of Ulster. He began his career with Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation. He served as various posts in Hewlett-Packard from August 2003 to 2013. He joined Hewlett-Packard in August 2003 as Director of Financial Communications and raised to Vice President of Growth Markets Organization/Emerging Markets. He also served as the President of Enterprise Solutions at Dell EMC from 2013 to 2017. Brian joined Vodafone in December 2016 and served as CEO of Vodafone Business from February 1, 2017 to December 2018.^[2][3] Before joining Dell, Humphries was with Hewlett-Packard where his roles included Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets; Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development; and Chief of Staff to the Chairman and Chief Executive. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of HP Services. The early part of his career was spent with Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation.

He received his Bachelors of Business Administration with Honors, from the University of Ulster in 1996.^[4]

He took over as the CEO of Cognizant in April 2019.^[2] Under his leadership, Cognizant witnessed severe attrition rates, as almost one third of employees quit in a quarter as per recent reports. ^[5]

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