Paul Roehrig, Ph.D.

Global Managing Director, Center for the Future of Work

Based in Washington, DC, Paul is Cognizant's AVP of Strategy for next-generation business solutions. He is responsible for developing direction, service offerings, go-to-market programs, alliances and business development for key strategic accounts. Paul is an acclaimed industry thought leader, analyst and practitioner in business technology services globally. In addition to authoring dozens of articles on sourcing topics, he has advised on and participated in transactions worth billions in total contract value. 

Paul is also a frequent presenter at industry events and he's regularly quoted in mainstream and industry publications such as Business Week, The Economic Times (India), CIO Strategy Center, Global Services, Computerworld and many others. Prior to joining Cognizant, Paul was a principal analyst at Forrester Research where he conducted research and advised senior IT leadership from Fortune 500 firms and government agencies on a broad range of outsourcing topics including sourcing strategy, trends and best practices. 

In 2008, Paul was named one of the top services analysts globally by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations. Paul also held key positions in planning, negotiation and successful global program implementation for customers from a variety of industries, including financial services, technology, federal government and telecommunications for Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer Corporation. He has robust experience leading enterprise improvement programs including organizational development, process engineering, communications and instructional development. 

He holds an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Florida and graduate degrees from Syracuse University. His doctoral research was on decision-making related to quality improvement in organizations.

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Ben Pring

VP, Co-Director, Center for the Future of Work

Ben Pring co-leads Cognizant's Future of Work Center and came to Cognizant in September 2011 after spending the previous 15 years with Gartner as a senior industry analyst researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. Prior to Gartner, Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers and Lybrand.

At Gartner, Ben was one the of the lead analysts on all things Cloud; he wrote the industry's first research notes on Cloud Computing (in 1997!), on Salesforce.com (in 2001) and became well known in the IT industry for providing predictions of the nature and velocity of the change that would impact everyone as the paradigm shifted again and Cloud Computing become the foundation for the next wave of competition in global IT. Ben was also heavily involved in tracking and analyzing the emergence of IT talent from outside western markets and the impact that globalization would have on business and IT strategies for organizations of all types.

Ben's expertise in helping clients see around corners, think the unthinkable and calculate the compound annual growth rate of unintended consequences has brought him to Cognizant where his charter is to research and analyze how clients can leverage the incredibly powerful new opportunities that are being created as new technologies make computing power more pervasive, more affordable and more important than ever before.

Now based near Boston, MA, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University in the UK where he grew up.

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Kevin Benedict

Senior Analyst, Center for the Future of Work

Kevin Benedict is an opinionated Senior Analyst at Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work, SAP Mentor Alumnus, speaker, writer and mobile and digital strategies expert. He is a popular keynote speaker, and in the past three years he has shared his insights into mobile and digital strategies with companies in 17 different countries. He has over 30 years of experience working with enterprise applications and he is a veteran mobile industry executive. 

He wrote the Forward to SAP Press' bestselling book on enterprise mobility titled Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP and he has written over 3,000 articles.

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Robert Brown

AVP, Center for the Future of Work

Robert H. Brown is the global head of Cognizant's CFOW market strategy and outreach for Business Process Services. He is specifically focused on Cognizant BPS thought leadership, brand development and solutions orchestration, as well as collaboration with Cognizant's senior executive clients and prospects. He resides in California. 

Rob has recently joined Cognizant as of January 2014. Prior to joining the company, Rob served as Managing Vice President of the Gartner Business and Applications Research Team from 2011 to the end of 2013. In addition to its work among user customers, the BAS teams client constituency also included Gartner's largest customers in the technology service provider space, including the Big 4, consulting and implementation, SaaS and BPO services. 

Prior to his management role, Rob was a Gartner Research Vice President and global lead analyst on the BPO market. In this capacity, Rob served as global agenda manager for the business process services topic and was a recognized subject matter expert in cloud services/BPaaS as well as HRO services. His work with Gartner featured extensive international experience in Europe and began with a relocation from the US to the company's European HQ in London, UK. 

Rob earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to his graduation, he attended the London School of Economics as a Hansard Scholar.

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Euan Davis

AVP, Center for the Future of Work, EMEA

Euan is a long standing expert in the business and IT services landscape. A respected speaker and thinker, Euan has guided many Fortune 500 firms into the dynamics surrounding business, technology and sourcing with his thought provoking research and advisory skills. Euan joined Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work. The Center for the Future of Work charter examines how work is changing in response to the emergence of new technologies, new business practices and new workers. 

Euan ensures that the Center provides original research and analysis of work trends and dynamics in Europe and collaborates with a wide range of business and technology thinkers and academics about what the future of work will look as technology changes many aspects of our working lives.

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Manish Bahl

Senior Director, Center for the Future of Work

Manish heads the Center for the Future of Work (cFOW) in Asia Pacific and is responsible to develop original thought leadership content related to Code Halos, Digital Transformation and the Future of Work. He works closely with senior IT and business decision makers as well as industry stakeholders to provide vision and leadership on digital transformation and its impact on business, people, technology and culture. 

Manish has over 14 years of research, advisory and business strategy experience. His professional expertise spans business technology strategy and planning, C-level thought leadership, innovation and sales & marketing. He most recently served as Vice President, Country Manager with Forrester India where he provided strategic guidance and advice to Forrester clients and drove Forresters growth in Asia Pacific. His research covered IT strategy, strengthening the linkage between business and technology, disruptive start-ups and the overall technology services market in Asia Pacific. Manish was also instrumental in the brand development for Forrester in Asia Pacific that led the company to win the Business Technology Research CIO-Choice award in early 2014. 

Manish has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as The Wall Street Journal, Economic Times, Ciol and others. He is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences. He did his post-graduate work in International Business from SCDL and holds a Bachelors degree from University of Delhi, India.

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