Driving force

As Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Krishna Bodanapu provides the strategic direction for growth and is responsible for all operations. Bodanapu initially joined Cyient (then Infotech) as a sales manager, driving sales of engineering services in Europe. He later moved to India, where he held the dual roles of marketing manager for the company´s aerospace vertical and key account manager. As marketing manager, Bodanapu worked with many of key aerospace customers and was an integral part of many successful customer engagements. As key account manager, he was responsible for relationship building and account management of several primary customers in engineering services. As COO for the last two years, Bodanapu contributed significantly to Cyient´s consistent growth in revenue, margin, customer satisfaction and associate satisfaction.
Prior to Cyient, Bodanapu was with Altera Corporation, a leading semiconductor manufacturer in San Jose, California. He was responsible for the company´s flagship product line, APEX. He holds a bachelor´s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master´s degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.