AVP - Unit Technology Officer
Infosys
Gnanapriya Chidam-baranathan
Gnanapriya (Priya) Chidambaranathan is Associate Vice President, Unit Technology Officer, Global Head of Technology & Architecture Practice – Communications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Utilities & Services Business Unit (ECS).
Priya has 29+ years of experience in Telecom & IT. She contributes to unit strategy, drives technology adoption for business solutions across varied programs globally.
She has been driving Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, IT roadmap, Micro Services, Cloud migration, Open Source Adoption, 5G / Edge, 5G Use Cases & Industry solutions, emerging technologies themes like Blockchain solutions, Software Marketplaces, Data Modernization, Legacy & Technology Modernization, Innovation, guiding varied transformation & modernization programs for ECS global clients and part of org level core team.
She recently received ‘Women Icons Asia Technology Award 2022’ by Women Icons Network, Singapore, ‘Top 10 Women Tech Leaders India Award 2022’ by REVA University, RACE & Terra Logic. Previously received ‘Outstanding Achievement’ Award under Disruptor category of “Global Women in Telco & Tech” Awards for 2020 by Capacity Media
Under her guidance & drive, Infosys has won 14 Outstanding Catalyst Team Awards in TM Forum, she received Individual Recognition Award @ Industry TM Forum, serving as TMF Collaboration Sub-committee member. She had contributed to TMForum OpenAPIs, ODA, Software Marketplace, Edge, 5G, technology reports, reference architectures. She is a speaker in multiple Industry and Technology Forums. She received ‘Best Technical Presentation’ award in SPE. She is a Senior IEEE member, IEEE ComSoc member, Execom member of Bangalore Chapter, IEEE WIE member, Fellow IETE. She has co-authored book on Digital Signal Processing I, II editions published by McGraw Hill, International edition and translated to Mandarin.