Thought Leader

Karmesh Vaswani

EVP and Global Head Retail, Consumer Goods & Logistics, Infosys

Karmesh Vaswani leads the Consumer Goods & Tech, Retail and Logistics Global Business Unit of Infosys.

Karmesh partners strategically with the Executive Board leadership teams of Enterprise clients to help strategise, plan and implement next generation business, digital and technology capabilities. He has extensive cross industry expertise in the areas of Global supply chain management, Logistics Transformations, Sales & Marketing, Finance & HR Transformations and setting up Global Shared Enterprise Services. He has led a number of initiatives to carve out new sources of competitive advantage in the Consumer, Retail and Logistics industry, delivering tangible improvements in free cash flow for the Enterprise clients. He is very actively involved in shaping new ecosystems with innovative startups, select cloud providers and the business technology services of Infosys to shape new business models Enterprise Clients.

A passionate advocate of Diversity at the workplace, Karmesh leads the global diversity programme at Infosys and also helps clients cultivate diversity in their Technology and Business services groups. Karmesh represents Infosys at the World Economic Forum and is involved Global Taskforces focused on China and India markets.

Prior to joining Infosys in 2003, he was a senior executive with Accenture for 10 years, and specialized in leading large business and technology transformation programmes in Asia Pacific region in the Manufacturing, Logistics and Consumer industries. He has received a Bachelors with Honors in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from VJTI, University of Mumbai (India) and also Executive Global Leadership Development Programme at Stanford University (USA). Karmesh is based in London, UK.