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{{Infobox person<br />
|name = Chander Prakash Gurnani<br />
|image = CP Gurnani (Horasis Global India Business Meeting 2010).jpg<br />
|caption = Speaking at [[Horasis]] Global India Business Meeting 2010<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1958|12|19}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Neemuch]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[India]]<br />
|nationality = {{flagicon|IND}} [[India]]n<br />
|education = Bachelor of Technology (Chemical)<br />
|alma_mater = [[National Institute of Technology, Rourkela]]<br />
|occupation = [[CEO]] and [[Managing Director]] of [[Tech Mahindra]]<br />
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'''Chander Prakash Gurnani''' or '''C. P. Gurnani''' (born December 19, 1958) is the [[CEO]] & Managing Director of [[Tech Mahindra]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.techmahindra.com/leaders/CP_Gurnani.aspx|title=CP Gurnani - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer - Tech Mahindra|date=19 December 2014|work=[[Tech Mahindra]]|accessdate=19 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422174548/http://www.techmahindra.com/leaders/CP_Gurnani.aspx|archive-date=22 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Gurnani was born in [[Neemuch]], a small town in [[Madhya Pradesh]] and spent his early life in [[Chittorgarh]], [[Kota, Rajasthan|Kota]], and [[Jaipur]] in [[Rajasthan]]. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the [[National Institute of Technology, Rourkela]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Tech Mahindra appoints CP Gurnani as MD |author=Staff writer |author-link=Staff writer |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-14/movements/33200297_1_cp-gurnani-mahindra-satyam-tech-mahindra |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103124937/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-14/movements/33200297_1_cp-gurnani-mahindra-satyam-tech-mahindra |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 January 2013 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=14 August 2012 |accessdate=16 August 2012}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Gurnani has been appointed as Nasscom's chairman in April 2016 for a one-year term.<br />
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In a career spanning 32 years, he has held several leading positions with HCL Hewlett Packard Limited, Perot Systems (India) Limited and HCL Corporation Ltd.<br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
*Gurnani has been chosen as the Ernst and Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year [Manager]’, CNBC Asia's ‘India Business Leader of the Year’ and Dataquest ‘IT person of the Year’ - for the year 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.techmahindra.com/leaders/CP_Gurnani.aspx|title=CP Gurnani - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer - Tech Mahindra|date=19 December 2014|work=[[Tech Mahindra]]|accessdate=19 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422174548/http://www.techmahindra.com/leaders/CP_Gurnani.aspx|archive-date=22 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
*Gurnani has also won the 'CEO of the Year' Award for year 2014 declared by Business Standard<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/bs-annual-awards-2014-power-packed-jury-picks-the-best-seven-114121500056_1.html|title=BS Annual Awards 2014: Power-packed jury picks the best seven of corporate India|date=19 December 2014|work=[[Business Standard]]|accessdate=19 December 2014}}</ref><br />
*He was awarded with Dataquest IT Person of the Year in 2014.<br />
*[[Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology]] awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (''Honoris Causa'') to Shri C. P. Gurnani for his outstanding contribution to the field of Technology and Management in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.vssut.ac.in/documents/notice_1477966151.pdf|title=Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology}}</ref><br />
*In 2018, Gurnani was ranked 488 of the "Best CEOs In The World" by the ''CEOWORLD magazine''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ceoworld.biz/2018/10/12/best-ceos-in-the-world-2018/|title=Best CEOs In The World 2018}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160426045719/http://www.techmahindra.com/General/leaders.aspx Tech Mahindra Board Members]<br />
*[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/cp-gurnani/48/3/b45 CP Gurnani]<br />
*{{cite web|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/bs-annual-awards-2014-power-packed-jury-picks-the-best-seven-114121500056_1.html|title=BS Annual Awards 2014: Power-packed jury picks the best seven of corporate India &#124; Business Standard News|publisher=[[Business Standard]]|accessdate=23 Oct 2015}}<br />
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