Manish has more than 25 years of experience in IT and related Services industry. He is currently the Corporate CTO in L’Oréal France. Before Loreal, Manish has worked as the Global CIO at ANSYS, Managing Director in UBS, VP of Customer Advocacy in Yahoo!, and Managing Director for Microsoft Corporation.

Manish has long ranging experience in improving Customer Experience in companies like Microsoft, Yahoo and now in Loreal.

Manish won the 2016 CIO of the Year award by Pittsburgh Technology Council. He was nominated for the Wall Street Journal CIO forum. PwC has recognized Manish for his work in information security. He also won the Worldwide Leadership Award for Privacy by Microsoft Corporation. Silicon India Magazine profiled him as the Executive of the Month.

Manish has published many publications and has been on the Board of a few companies. Manish is currently on the board of directors for Adrich Inc. (www.adrich.io) and for BOLD.

Manish has worked with government agencies in Asia and EMEA and organizations such as SSPA, NASSCOM, CII, ITIDA (Egypt) and IDA/WDA (Singapore) to create new Customer Experience, Technical Support and Customer Advocacy forums.