Prashant Deshpande

Prashant Deshpande is an internationally experienced IT executive with extensive business leadership, service design & delivery, and operations skills across the NA, LATAM, and Europe regions. He is currently VP, Life Sciences, at Coforge Limited. He brings 25+ years of solid IT services experience in the digital space and has held senior leadership roles at large-scale IT companies such as Cognizant, Capgemini, L&T Mindtree, and CMC, where he built service lines and competency units, managed P&L, and led large-scale, complex delivery and transformation programs across multiple domains, including HCLS. He also led initiatives for AI-based tools/accelerator/QAE platform for LS to take it to market. In the past, Prashant spearheaded the QEA and Vertical SBU delivery of digital validation/compliance solutions that enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency & led the shaping of the industry's perspective on the pivotal role of regulatory and quality.