Brian Humphries

Brian Humphries (born ) is an Irish businessman who was the CEO of Cognizant, from 2019 before being fired in 2023, due to severe attrition rates.

Education Brian Humphries was born in the County Wicklow, Ireland. He received his Bachelors of Business Administration with Honors, from the University of Ulster in 1996.

Career He began his career with Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation. He had various posts at Hewlett-Packard from August 2003 to 2013. He joined Hewlett-Packard in August 2003 as Director of Financial Communications and was raised to Vice President of Growth Markets Organization/Emerging Markets.

He took over as the CEO of Cognizant in April 2019. Under his leadership, Cognizant witnessed severe voluntary attrition rates of 33 percent and non-voluntary attrition of 37 percent (annualized)

In January 2023, Cognizant fired Humphries and replaced him with Ravi Kumar S. as CEO.

In November 2024, Version 1 appointed Humphries as interim CEO, whilst they search for a successor, replacing Tom O’Connor.