Mr. Manglik is former Chairman & Geography Managing Director, Accenture-India. He was a member of Accenture's apex Executive Leadership Team (ELT), chaired by Chairman & CEO Bill Green. He is also former Chairman of NASSCOM and was an invited member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Mr. Manglik graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur - where he has been honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award (DAA) - and earlier attended St. Stephen's College, Delhi U, where he studied physics. He also holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon U and a master's degree in engineering from Case Western Reserve U. His earlier schooling was at La Martiniere Coll, Lucknow, India.
Mr Manglik has served as director on the boards of business and academic organizations, including the Board of Cyient Ltd. and the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.
Mr Manglik's experience spans both management consulting and global corporations. His broad experience, across a range of industries and domains, has centered on issues critical for success and requiring a cross disciplinary and holistic end-to-end systems approach.
His US career started at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Management Consultants. Subsequently he held senior executive roles in corporations focused on complex and highly engineered systems and products. At Pratt & Whitney/United Technologies (now Raytheon Technologies) his work spanned the domains of aircraft engines, rocket propulsion, and large-scale manufacturing and development transformation. At IBM he was the executive consulting leader for Industrial and Aerospace-Defence sectors in the US with clients that included Boeing, Raytheon Aircraft, Newport News Shipbuilding and Daimler Benz, and certain internal operations of IBM. Also, at IBM he held leadership roles, including as the Vice President responsible for Asia Pacific Consulting and Global Vice President for Product Life Cycle consulting and services.
Throughout his career Harsh Manglik has maintained deep connections with leading academic and research institutions ... He has served as Distinguished Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor of Management at Carnegie Mellon U, and as Senior Advisor to the Dean and Practice Professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB).
He represented United Technologies Corp at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a member of the launch Operating Committee, for the dual graduate degree Leaders for Manufacturing Program (now Leaders for Global Operations).