Debashis Chatterjee

Debashis Chatterjee (DC) is a Senior Advisor at YCP, with over 35 years of business and technology experience driving multi-billion-dollar transformations and strategic growth initiatives across Fortune 500 clients and global enterprises. He is currently a director of Ascendion, an AI-led software engineering firm; Adastra, a Carlyle portfolio company; and Brigade Enterprises Limited. He has served for more than 10 years on the Boards of leading companies such as Cognizant India, Mindtree, and LTIMindtree.

Most recently, DC served as CEO of LTIMindtree. He is widely recognized for architecting and executing one of the Indian IT industry's most complex, high-stakes mergers between Larsen & Toubro Infotech and Mindtree, culminating in the formation of LTIMindtree, one of India’s top 5 IT services firms. Before that, he served as CEO of Mindtree, navigating a macroeconomic downturn while rebuilding client confidence and delivering nine consecutive quarters of profitable growth.

Prior to that, DC spent over two decades at Cognizant Technology Solutions, where he held several key leadership roles. In his tenure as President of Digital Systems & Technology, he led the company’s largest business unit with over USD 6B in annual revenue. He also served as Head of Cognizant’s Banking & Financial Services (BFS) business, expanded it across Europe and APAC, and grew it into the company’s largest vertical at USD 1B revenue right from scratch.