Kathy Diaz, the Chief People Officer of Cognizant, will receive Arohi’s reports.
Cognizant, the massive information technology (IT) company, established the Chief Learning Officer job and named Thirumala (Thiru) Arohi to it. He will answer to the Chief People Officer, Kathy Diaz.
At Infosys, Arohi most recently served as Executive Vice President and Head of Education, Training & Assessment, and Learning Platforms. Arohi has more than thirty years of expertise. He is renowned for fostering innovation in digital education and creating scalable learning environments.
He has a business-centric viewpoint on how learning promotes performance and development because of his prior delivery leadership positions.
Arohi will oversee the company’s worldwide learning and development department in his new position, which is based in Teaneck. Thought leadership on talent, technology, and the future of work will be his responsibility, along with rethinking learning platforms and programs and investigating new upskilling models and collaborations.
The position’s establishment demonstrates Cognizant’s emphasis on workforce transformation and skill development in the AI era. While Accenture has included learning leadership into its personnel strategy, major IT counterparts like Infosys and TCS have long made investments in specialized learning units.
Training has been a priority for the Ravi Kumar-led company, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence.
In order to expedite the creation of AI models at the corporate level, Cognizant released AI training data services on July 30. This integrated solution combines ten years of industry-specific AI, domain-specific business processes, data knowledge, and engineering experience.
Additionally, in an effort to industrialize agentic AI across businesses, the firm recently announced a collaboration with Rohan Murty-led Workfabric AI to educate and deploy 1,000 “context engineers” over the course of the next year.
Cognizant’s competitor in the IT services sector, Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, is the father of Rohan Murty.
Chief Executive Officer Ravi Kumar S told Moneycontrol in February that the IT company has already educated 4 lakh people in AI, with plans to teach 1 million people by 2026.
On the fringes of the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum 2025 in Mumbai on February 24, Kumar said, “It is a mix of what we do for ourselves, eat our own dog food, as they call it, take it to our customers, and then take it to the communities around us.”
Kumar, the only Indian IT professional to be included on the 2025 list, was recently named one of the top 100 most significant individuals in AI by Times Magazine.