Virtusa Corporation announced the appointment of Abidali Neemuchwala to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Neemuchwala will join the Board as a Class III director, standing for election at the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. With this appointment, the Virtusa Board expands to 10 directors, nine of whom are independent. He most recently served as CEO of Wipro, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, where he oversaw the company’s successful digital transformation, and he previously served as Global Head of Business Process Services for Tata Consultancy Services, where he was responsible for over 12% of the company’s revenues. In addition to appointing Mr. Neemuchwala, the Board announced that it intends to continue conducting a vigorous process to identify and seat a new, highly qualified independent director to the Company’s Board. The company also disclosed that New Mountain Vantage Advisers (“NMV”), one of the Company’s shareholders, has nominated three candidates for election to the Company’s Board of Directors at Virtusa’s 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders – Michael J. Baresich, Ramakrishna Prasad Chintamaneni and Patricia B. Morrison. As part of Virtusa’s ongoing board refreshment, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board ran a comprehensive process and interviewed numerous candidates, including two of NMV’s principals, Ramakrishna Prasad Chintamaneni and Chad Fauser.