Basab Pradhan
Senior Vice President
Head of Global Sales, Marketing and Alliances
Member, Executive Council
Basab Pradhan is the Global Head of Sales and Marketing for Infosys. He is responsible for shaping Infosys’ field force and go-to-market to enable the company's strategy and goals.
Over two stints at Infosys, Basab has played many roles in the organization across Sales, Marketing, Industry Solutions and P&L leadership. Starting with opening the company's first sales office in the New York area in 1995, Basab has been intimately involved in the formation and growth of the offshore services industry. During his leadership as the Head of Global Sales, the company grew from US$ 400 million to US$ 2 billion.
Outside of Infosys, Basab was the co-founder and CEO of a venture-funded technology startup in the area of unstructured data in financial information. Prior to Infosys, he worked for Hindustan Unilever in Mumbai.
Basab is an engineer from IIT Kanpur and has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He is a trustee on the board of Digjyoti, an educational trust that provides scholarships to needy students in the state of Orissa in India. He is the co-author of “Offshore: How India got back on the Global Business Map” published by Penguin in December 2011.