CIO 100 Awards India

CIO 100 Awards India

The CIO 100 Awards recognise 100 CIOs and senior technology leaders from across India who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and driven innovation within their organisations.
Each year, hundreds of nominations—submitted by technology leaders or their colleagues—are evaluated by our expert judging panel, comprising CIO editors and industry experts.
From the applications, 100 winners are selected, along with special awards that recognise repeat achievements and success in high-priority technology areas.

2026 Judges

Yogesh Gupta, Editorial Director, India & META, Events, Foundry, Judge at the CIO 100 Awards & Conference India
Judge
Yogesh Gupta
Editorial Director, India & META, EventsFoundry
Dr. Chris Holmes, Editorial Director, Asia, Foundry, Judge at the CIO 100 Awards & Conference India
Judge
Dr. Chris Holmes
Editorial Director, AsiaFoundry

2025 CIO 100 Honorees

The Game Changers Award Winners

Amit Chandna, Head- SAP, MDM, Analytics & Integration Applications, Haldiram

Amit Shukla, Vice President – IT (CIO), Crystal Crop Protection

Anand Kumar Sinha, CIO & Global Head IT, Birlasoft

Arindam Hari, Group CIO, Gainwell Group

Arpit Rastogi, Chief Information Officer, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP

Arun Attri, CDIO, Wonder Cement

Ashish Desai, CIO – Textiles Business, Grasim Industries

B Jegadeeswaran, Head IT Application, TVS Automobile Solutions

Bhavesh Lakhani, Chief Information Officer, Firstsource Solutions

Dilip Joshi, Deputy Vice President – IT & Engineering, Shemaroo Entertainment

Dominic Vijay Kumar, President & Head of Technology, Namdev Finvest

Dr. Amit Wadhwa, GM IT & Head Clinical Applications, Max Healthcare

Dr. Balvinder Singh Banga, Group CTO, V-Trans India

Dr. Sanjay Joglekar, Chief Technology Officer, Mumbai Port Authority

Gajanan Raut, Chief Manager, Bank of Baroda

Golam Mustafa, Deputy CIO, Emami Agrotech

Harsh Jha, Senior Executive Vice President, Nuvama Wealth Management

Hemang Mehta, Head of Transformation, Loreal India

Hemant M Patel, HEAD – IT, Adani Hazira Port

Kabilan R K, Senior Manager – IT Infrastructure Security Head, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank

Kalilur Rahman, Director, Novartis

Kamesh Jain, Global CIO, EPL (Essel Propack)

Kiran Nanduri, CITO, Heritage Foods

Kiran Neve, General Manager and Country Lead IT, Hitachi Astemo India

Kopal Sarin Raj, CIO, Wabtec India

Kulwant Chhabra, IT Head and CISO, Diamond Beverages

Mahmood Hassan, Senior Vice President, The Bank of New York Mellon

Mukhtar Ansari, VP – IT & Infra, Rebel Foods Service

Navin Nathani, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Cohizon Life Sciences

Navratan Bohra, Vice President – Digital Transformation, Anand Rathi Share and Stock Brokers

Nawdeep Agrawal, Chief Digital & Technology Officer (AGM), Bharat Aluminium Company

Neha S, Chief Information/Digital Officer, SeedWorks international

Nikhil S Prabhakar, Chief Information Officer, IndiaMART InterMESH

Nikhilesh Joshi, CIO, Chiripal Polyfilms

Palanidurai Subbiah, Vice President – Digital and Tech, Wellness Forever Medicare

Poonam Chum, Chief General Manager (IT), National Fertilizers

Prakash Mani Tripathi, CIO, Shyam Steel Industries

Prasad Tripurari, Chief Technology Officer, Ramoji Group IT, ETV

Prashant Mishra, Chief Technology Officer, Walsons Group Securitas

R Ramasubramaniam, CITO, TTK Prestige

Rajesh Kulkarni, IT Head, Piaggio Vehicles

Rajesh Sharma, CTO, Cello World

Rakesh khetan, Head IT, IB Group

Raman Pillai, Head Cloud Operaration, Verse Innovation

Ranjeet Kadam, CIO, Tata AutoComp Systems (TACO)

Rohith Chintawar, Chief Digital Officer, Prism Johnson

Rupesh Mehta, Senior Vice President, Tata AIA Life insurance

Sabyasachi Chakraborty Thakur, CIO, Parksons Packaging

Sandeep K Vasudevan, Associate Director IT, Livspace

Sanjay Jayant Joshi, Head IT & Digital Transformation, Parle Products

Sanjay Ranjhani, HEAD IT, Senvion Wind Technology

Sanjeev Sinha, President – IT & Digitalization, India Power

Sudesh Sharma, CIO, Panasonic Life Solution India

Suresh Vijayaraghavan, CTO, THG Publishing (The Hindu Group)

V V Jacob, Sr GM IT, Malayala Manorama

Vikram Goswami, CIO – India & Southeast Asia, Carrier Airconditioning and Refrigeration

Hall of Fame Winners

Abhijit Chatterjee, Sr. Director – IT & Corp Comm, CISO, TCG Lifesciences

Bhoopendra Solanki, CIO, Sakra World Hospital

Charu Bhargava, Sr Vice President, Sheela Foam

Dr. Mahesh Juttiyavar, Chief Information Officer, Mastek

Girish Hadkar, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Tata Realty & Infrastructure

Niraj Godiwala, National Director, Information Technology, Knight Frank India

Prasenjit Mukherjee, CIO & CDO, JWIL Infrastructure

Srikrishna Narasimhan, Chief Information Officer, Pricol

Subhamoy Chakraborti, CTO, ABP

Juniper Special Award Winners

Aakash Bhutani, Vice President – Digital Transformation, Eternal (Zomato)

Chandresh Dedhia, Head of IT (VP IT), Zepto

Chittapragada Sri Hari Naga Bapi Raju, Dy. Chief Information Officer, Aurobindo Pharma

Harvinder Singh Banga, Chief Information Officer, CJ Darcl Logistics

Manoj Gautam, CIO & Executive Vice President, MSIL, Maruti Suzuki India

Yoginder Singh Grewal, CIO, Hindustan Coca – Cola Beverage

AWS Special Award Winners

K V Dipu, Senior President, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company

Ninad Raje, Group CIO, Jaquar

Shailender Gupta, Global Head – Cloud Infra, Data Engineering, Reporting & Analytics, Apollo Tyres

Tanushree Sarkar, CIO India, South Asia, Australia, & New Zealand, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Vamsi Ithamraju, CTO, Axis Mutual Fund

Veeraiah Chowdary, CTIO, CRISIL

Vinod G, CIO, Ashok Leyland

Vivek Digumarti, Vice President & Head, Laurus Labs

Netskope Special Award Winners

Dheeraj Sinha, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries

Jignesh Khandwala, Group CIO, Adani Enterprises

Mangesh Mahale, Chief Technology Officer, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

Neeti Wahi, Chief digital & information officer, Indus Towers

Rajiv Kumar Mishra, CIO, HT Media Group

Unique Kumar, Group CIO, CK Birla Group

Venkat Krishnan, Chief Information Officer, Karnataka Bank

Varonis Special Award Winners

Amit Singh, Director (Global)- Technology- IT, Porter (SmartShift Logistics)

Harmit Singh Malhotra, CTO, NDTV-Profit

Jayant Goyal, CIO, Coforge

Kalyan Chakravarthy Medarametla, Vice President, Head of IT Infra, KFintech

Pradipta Patro, HEAD-IT and Global CISO, KEC International (An RPG Group Company)

Rajneesh Garg, CIO, Allcargo ECU Worldwide

Srinivasulu Thayam, CTO, Aravind Eye Care System

Vinod Chandnani, CIO | CISO, Patel Engineering

ACPL Special Award Winners

Mahesh Toshniwal, Group Head of IT Operations, Jindal Steel and Power

Mukul Jain, CTO, Axis Max Life Insurance

Pankaj Khare, CIO, Bharat Financial Inclusion

Pavan Goyal, Chief Information Officer, Mphasis

Raghunath Bal, Global Head IT, Camlin Fine Sciences

Ramesh T Kumar, Global Head of Enterprise IT, LTI Mindtree

Srikanth Katuri, Sr. VP-Global IT, Cyber security & Compliance, Omega Healthcare Management Services

Vijay Sharma, CIO, Tata Play

Vikrant Chaudhuri, Head of IT, Concentrix