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Manoj Kothiyal named CBO and global head of AI at LTIMindtree
MUMBAI: LTIMindtree has brought a seasoned AI strategist into its top leadership, appointing Manoj Kothiyal as chief business officer and global head of AI. The move signals the company’s intent to put artificial intelligence firmly at the heart of its next growth chapter.
Kothiyal steps into the role after more than a decade at Boston Consulting Group, where he was a managing director and partner. Known for translating complex data science into real business results, he has worked across industries to deliver large-scale digital and AI transformations.
At LTIMindtree, Kothiyal will shape global business strategy while leading the company’s AI initiatives. His focus will be on helping enterprises move beyond experimentation and adopt AI in ways that are practical, responsible and scalable.
“I’m excited to share that I’ve joined LTIMindtree as Chief Business Officer and Global Head of AI,” Kothiyal said. “After 11 wonderful years at BCG, I’m looking forward to helping organisations build AI-first strategies that create meaningful business impact.”
During his time at BCG, Kothiyal played a key role in digital manufacturing and supply chain innovation. He also founded Snow AI, a next-generation analytics platform that uses machine learning and generative AI to help companies simulate scenarios, optimise supply chains and make faster decisions.
Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at WNS and Absolutdata, where he built and scaled data science teams and delivered analytics programmes across global markets.
With Kothiyal on board, LTIMindtree is betting on experience, clarity and a touch of curiosity to turn AI ambition into everyday business value.
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YES Bank appoints S Anantharaman as chief risk officer
Former Jio Financial Services group chief risk officer takes charge of enterprise-wide risk at the embattled private lender
MUMBAI: YES Bank is not taking chances with risk anymore. The private lender has appointed S Anantharaman as its chief risk officer, a hire that signals the bank’s continued effort to rebuild credibility and tighten the controls that once famously slipped.
Anantharaman arrives from Jio Financial Services, where he served as group chief risk officer and built a risk management architecture spanning lending, payments, insurance broking and asset management from the ground up. Before that, he held the chief risk officer role at Bank of Baroda and senior leadership positions at HDFC Bank and L&T Finance Holdings. Three decades in banking and financial services, in other words, with scars and qualifications to match. He is a chartered accountant and a CFA charterholder.
At YES Bank, his brief is considerable. Anantharaman will oversee the bank’s entire enterprise-wide risk framework, covering credit policy, market risk, operational risk, information security, data governance, analytics, model governance and data privacy. It is, in short, every lever that matters when a bank is trying to prove it has grown up.
YES Bank’s turbulent past needs little rehearsing. What it needs now is exactly what Anantharaman has spent thirty years building: the kind of risk culture that stops problems before they become headlines. The appointment suggests the bank knows it.
