Vikram Puranik has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer at Birlasoft, a move that reflects the company’s focus on strengthening its global delivery engine as it scales across key markets and industry verticals. Based in Pune, he joins the executive leadership team with a mandate to drive operational excellence, margin expansion, and productivity transformation while accelerating Birlasoft’s global delivery and innovation agenda.
In this role, Mr. Puranik will oversee global operations, with a strong emphasis on optimising delivery frameworks, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing client outcomes across the enterprise‑IT and digital‑engineering portfolio. His responsibilities include building scalable, AI‑first delivery models, reinforcing execution discipline, and ensuring that Birlasoft can consistently deliver transformative, future‑ready outcomes for clients adopting cloud, data, and artificial intelligence platforms.
Mr. Puranik brings over 25 years of experience in engineering and digital transformation, most recently serving as Chief of Engineering Delivery and Operations and P&L Owner at GlobalLogic, where he led large‑scale delivery across communication, consumer, and media verticals, and helped scale India‑based delivery centres into global‑capability hubs. He has also held senior leadership roles at Infostretch, Nitor Infotech, and Persistent Systems, giving him deep expertise in managing large‑scale, distributed delivery organisations and incubating differentiated centres of excellence that unlock new revenue streams.
This appointment underscores a broader trend in the IT services sector, where operational leadership is becoming a critical lever for sustainable growth. As clients increasingly demand faster, outcome‑oriented execution and measurable business impact, the ability to scale global delivery while maintaining efficiency, innovation, and margin discipline is emerging as a key competitive differentiator, and Mr. Puranik’s mandate at Birlasoft is aligned squarely with that priority.
