Julie Sweet vs Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan

Julie Sweet

CEO of Accenture

BIO: Ms. Julie T. Spellman Sweet has been Group Chief Executive of North America/Chief Executive Officer of North America at Accenture Plc and Accenture Holdings plc (Alternate Name, Accenture SCA) since June 1, 2015. Ms. Sweet has been with Accenture for five years. She also has substantial experience representing underwriters in public and private financings and in executing spin-offs for corporate clients in public and private financings, advising on mergers and acquisitions and providing general corporate counsel, including spin-offs for Lucent Technologies and PricewaterhouseCoopers. She served as the Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel and Secretary at Accenture Plc from March 22, 2010 to June 1, 2015 and Accenture Holdings plc from April 2015 to June 2015. She served as a Partner in the Corporate department of the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP for 10 years, which she joined as an Associate in 1992. She serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College and the Board of Directors for the Drew Foundation. She was recognized as one of the 'Dealmakers of the Year' for 2006 by The American Lawyer for her work on the $5 billion initial global offering of KKR Private Equity Investors, L.P. She was also recognized by Lawdragon magazine as one of the top 500 leading lawyers and as one of the top 500 dealmakers in America in 2007 and in 2009, she was recognized by The Legal 500 for her work in equity offerings in the capital markets. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and has spent substantial time working in Hong Kong and mainland China. Ms. Sweet received a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1989, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1992, where she was a Stone Scholar.

Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan

CEO of Hexaware Technologies

BIO: R Srikrishna aka Keech joined Hexaware in 2014 as CEO to build a great Hexaware. Since then, he has worked towards creating an organization that delivers world-class services to customers, ensures employee delight, while creating and sustaining long-term profitable growth and high momentum. Keech is an eminent industry veteran, with over 25 years of IT experience. In an earlier stint, he was instrumental in building Infrastructure Service offerings from scratch to a multibillion-dollar business for a reputed Indian multinational company. Over the years, he has honed his intuition and possesses the knack of identifying business opportunities ahead of competition. He spearheaded Hexaware’s ‘Shrink IT Grow Digital’ strategy, thus transforming it from a typical services organization to a consultative, disruptive player in the IT, BPO and Consulting space. He further fine-tuned this strategy to ‘AUTOMATE EVERYTHING®, CLOUDIFY EVERYTHING® and TRANSFORM CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES®’ that empowers sustained and industry-leading organic growth. He showcases a great mix of leadership, inspiration, technology expertise, operational experience, technical breadth and passion for enhancing customer service. As a recognition of his leadership skills, he was named in 2010 as the Young Global Leader of the Year by the World Economic Forum.