Jeff Kavanaugh Author

Jeff Kavanaugh is Vice President and Global Head of the Infosys Knowledge Institute, the research and thought leadership arm of tech services leader Infosys. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. In 2018, he launched the Knowledge Institute, an award-winning team of producers, editors, journalists, and analysts, that reaches a large global audience. Jeff is the author of the book Consulting Essentials: The Art & Science of People, Facts, and Frameworks and has been published in Harvard Business Review and other leading periodicals. Jeff has presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the United Nations and is a regular speaker and chair at conferences in the US and Europe. He also serves as an advisor to the United Nations, universities, and early stage companies.  He lives in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Rafee Tarafdar is CTO-Strategic Technology Group at Infosys. Over 22+ years of his career, he has worked with hundreds of Fortune 500 enterprises and their leaders across the globe, helping them transform from traditional brick and mortar businesses to operate like digital natives that are continuously evolving and learning. He founded and incubated the Strategic Technology Group, comprising power programmers and chief architects who are spearheading the digital transformation for Infosys clients. At Infosys, over the last 3 years he has been driving Infosys’s own transformation to be a Live Enterprise, and he is now working with their strategic clients to help them transform to be a Live Enterprise. He is a regular speaker and writer on digital transformation and modernization. He lives in Bangalore, India.