Sampath Manickam is a globally recognized technology leader and CTO  for Technology Infrastructure at NSE India, one of the world’s largest stock exchange. With over three decades of impact across capital markets, BFSI, telecom, OTT media and data centers, he leads complex transformation programs blending resilience, automation and innovation at scale.  . 

A founding team member of Nxtra Data (Bharti Airtel) and played a key strategic leadership roles at Jio Platforms and Wipro’s Global Center of Excellence (CoE), Sampath has built and scaled mission-critical platforms that set industry benchmarks.  

Under his leadership, NSE earned Asia’s Best Infrastructure Platform awards (FY24 & FY25 – two consecutive years) and he was named among APAC’s Top 50 Cloud Influencers and featured in India’s Top CIOs. 

An alumnus of BITS Pilani, with executive credentials from Wharton, ISB and Great Lakes, Sampath mentors future leaders through masterclasses at IIT Kanpur and regular speaking engagements at IIM Mumbai, ISB and premier tech forums across APAC.