Co-founder, President & CEO, Digital Business Services, Happiest Minds Technologies

Salil Godika has 20 years of experience in the IT industry across global product and services companies. His breadth of functional experience includes P&L ownership, marketing, vertical markets development, product management, M&A and alliances. He has extensive experience in new business incubation or growth engines from identification to operations.

Prior to Happiest Minds, Mr. Godika was with Mindtree for four years as the Chief Strategy Officer/M&A and held P&L responsibility of an Industry group. Before Mindtree, he worked for 12 years in the United States, with software product companies ranging from large firms to start-ups.

His accomplishments include growing a new product to $30 million in revenue, successful market positioning of multiple products, handling global marketing for a $300-million business and several M&As.

Mr. Godika has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial engineering from IIT Roorkee, and a Master’s in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University.