Executive Vice President and Managing Director & CEO of India
Gaurav Agarwal studied Business administration and commerce at the Osmania University, Hyderabad. In 2007, he began his extensive career at KPMG, Hyderabad. As a qualified Chartered Accountant (since 2008) for the Indian market, he was responsible for audit and advisory services for various listed corporations, among others at the Hyderabad practice for seven years. He has also completed an Executive Training Program at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (ISB).
He has been CFO of NTT DATA Business Solutions India (back then itelligence India) since January 2015. As India CFO, he led a couple of strategic acquisitions for NTT DATA Business Solutions India and helped NTT DATA Business Solutions India scale from just over 100 employees to over 3,000 employees over the last decade. He was also instrumental is setting up the subsidiary in Qatar (which is now part of the META Region). He has a proven track record of scaling and building sustainable shoring models, diversifying portfolios with effective commercial architecture and building high performance teams. In April 2023, he was elevated to being the regional finance head of APAC Region (then including India) and helped turnaround the overall APAC Region to a very successful growth unit and was a part of Global Finance team since April 2022.
In mid-November 2024, Gaurav Agarwal was appointed as Executive Vice President and Head of the Indian organization in addition to being appointed as Managing Director & CEO of NTT DATA Business Solutions India. He is member of the Global leadership team.