{
  "id": 10593282,
  "title": "Coforge appoints former Bharti Enterprises VC Akhil Gupta as chairperson",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/coforge-appoints-former-bharti-enterprises-vc-akhil-gupta-as",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-29T02:37:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Standard IN",
    "slug": "business-standard-in",
    "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/coforge-appoints-former-bharti-enterprises-vc-akhil-gupta-as-chairperson-126092900018_1.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Coforge has appointed Akhil Gupta as its chairperson and non-executive independent director for five years. This follows the resignation of former chairman O P Bhatt on September 9. Bhatt's departure came after an internal audit found he had withheld a board evaluation report.\n\nThe audit reportedly assigned Bhatt's performance the lowest rating. His resignation and the subsequent audit caused Coforge's market value to drop by over Rs 4,400 crore, with shares falling over 5%.\nVivek Sharma was appointed as interim chairperson after Bhatt's resignation.\n\nAkhil Gupta's appointment was the result of a global search process led by Egon Zehnder, according to Vivek Sharma, who said the process involved a list of 60 candidates being whittled down to Gupta as the unanimous choice of the NRC and the Board.",
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    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Economic Times",
        "title": "Coforge taps Akhil Gupta as chairman",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/coforge-taps-akhil-gupta-as-chairman",
        "published": "2026-09-29T01:13:41.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Business Standard IN",
        "title": "Coforge appoints Akhil Gupta as independent chairperson for five years",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/coforge-appoints-akhil-gupta-as-independent-chairperson-for-five-years",
        "published": "2026-09-29T03:50:19.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}