• Rekha M Menon has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the apex IT industry body, for 2021-22.
• Menon, who currently is the Chairperson of Accenture India, will be the first woman to take the role of chairperson for Nasscom in its 30-year history. Prior to this, she was the vice-chair of NASSCOM.
• She succeeds U.B. Pravin Rao, chief operating officer, Infosys Ltd, who served as chairman of Nasscom for 2020-21.
• Besides, Krishnan Ramanujam, TCS President, has been appointed as the vice-chairperson.

NASSCOM :

• Headquarters: New Delhi.
• Founded: 1 March 1988.