Umashankar Lakshmipathy, EVP and Co-Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Services (CIS) at Infosys, is a Global Executive with 28 years of IT experience driving significant growth across global markets for a variety of industry segments in IT outsourcing. In the last 17 years, he has been based in London and has had the opportunity to successfully build a European business footprint for two of the top five Indian System integrators. He has been a performance-driven leader, building strong teams across North America, EMEA and APAC and working with a wide variety of individuals both within his organisation and across partner ecosystems. He has always believed in strong client focus and delivering their outcomes, and this has helped him set up large global client relationships.