Dr Puneet Kaur Kohli is an IT Leader with track record of 23 years plus of experience having extensive knowledge on developing and implementing strategic plans and addressing company needs and promotion of growth. Creation of strategic IT annual and long-term roadmap with focus towards generating new revenue streams through innovation. Currently she is the Group CTO & CIO at Manappuram Finance. She has played various IT leadership roles at Motorcity, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Energy, to name a few.

Her areas of expertise include IT Strategy - IS Procedure and Budgeting; Systems Architecture; Project and Program management; Network and System Security; Disaster Recovery Planning; Risk Assessment; Regulatory Adherence and Governance; Contingency Planning; Cost takeout strategies, etc.

She has been honoured at multiple forums winning various awards and recognition – TOP 100 CISO award – 2011/2012/2013/2014/2015 (five consecutive years); TOP Innovation award from IDC in BFSI vertical; Dynamic CIO 100 Awards – 2011/2013/2014 /Innovator CIO of the year for 2015; Business World award for IT Acceleration for Innovation in Storage in March, 2014; Infosec Maestros Award – 2014/2015 / DQ Live 2014/2015; “Women in Leadership” award by CIO-Club, Delhi in March, 2011; and CIO of the Year 2006 in the Manufacturing Sector by Network Computing and Dataquest.