Former LTIMindtree exec Nachiket Deshpande joins Impetus as CEO

Enterprise data and AI engineering firm Impetus Technologies has appointed Nachiket Deshpande as its new chief executive officer. This appointment comes at a time when the California-headquartered firm is expanding globally.

Before joining Kedaara-backed Impetus, Nachiket served as Executive Board Member and President at LTI Mindtree. As the President of its AI business, he helped shape the company’s AI strategy and launched BlueVerse, its packaged Agentic AI offering. As Chief Operating Officer, he oversaw global delivery, operations, and transformation programs that scaled the company’s growth across industries and markets.

Earlier, he also had a two-decade career at Cognizant in leadership roles that advanced the firm's capabilities across AI, data, cloud, and Banking and Financial Services.

“Impetus is a rare services organization which has a software-led approach. For the past two decades, it has delivered software-led services in big data, machine learning, data on the cloud, and now in the AI world. It truly represents the kind of organization that defines what’s next. What excites me most is the opportunity ahead: helping enterprises harness the power of AI to not only boost productivity but also to reimagine their business processes and workflows as they evolve into agentic intelligent enterprises,” said Deshpande. 

“Impetus is at an important inflection point, and Nachiket’s experience in scaling technology businesses makes him a strong addition to the organization,” said Sunish Sharma, Founder and Managing Partner & Saakshi Gera, Co-Lead, Technology & Technology Services at Kedaara.

To be sure, earlier, Deshpande was one of the front-runners for the CEO position at LTIMindtree to succeed incumbent CEO Debashis Chatterjee.