# Francisco D'Souza founder roles entity: /record/francisco-d-souza.md predicate: founder_of page: /record/francisco-d-souza/founder_of as_of: 2026-11-09 cite: AsOf. "Francisco D'Souza founder of: Cognizant", undated. Claim clm_CDA705669FB2, https://asof.is/claim/clm_CDA705669FB2, accessed 2026-11-09. Source: https://news.cognizant.com/2019-02-06-Cognizant-Names-Brian-Humphries-As-CEO-Succeeding-Company-Co-Founder-Francisco-DSouza. As of November 9, 2026, the AsOf record says Francisco D'Souza is a founder of Cognizant, from a primary source (news.cognizant.com) and one further source (economictimes.indiatimes.com). 1 claim on Francisco D'Souza's founder roles, 1 open and 0 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted. ## Current founder roles What the record asserts on 2026-11-09. - [Francisco D'Souza](/record/francisco-d-souza.md) | founder_of | [Cognizant](/record/cognizant.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.70 | valid | [clm_CDA705669FB2](/claim/clm_CDA705669FB2.md) sources: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cognizant-founder-mahadeva-to-retire/articleshow/375817.cms, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1107035, https://news.cognizant.com/2019-02-06-Cognizant-Names-Brian-Humphries-As-CEO-Succeeding-Company-Co-Founder-Francisco-DSouza ## Every dated value One claim per line, oldest first. Superseded claims stay visible. - [Francisco D'Souza](/record/francisco-d-souza.md) | founder_of | [Cognizant](/record/cognizant.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.70 | valid | [clm_CDA705669FB2](/claim/clm_CDA705669FB2.md) sources: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cognizant-founder-mahadeva-to-retire/articleshow/375817.cms, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1107035, https://news.cognizant.com/2019-02-06-Cognizant-Names-Brian-Humphries-As-CEO-Succeeding-Company-Co-Founder-Francisco-DSouza ## Questions this record answers ### What is Francisco D'Souza founder of? Cognizant, as the record asserts on November 9, 2026, from a primary source (news.cognizant.com) and one further source (economictimes.indiatimes.com). ## Read on - This page: /record/francisco-d-souza/founder_of (markdown: /record/francisco-d-souza/founder_of.md) - Entity twin: /record/francisco-d-souza.md ยท timeline: /timelines/francisco-d-souza.md --- AsOf is a temporal fact ledger: a structured, dated, sourced record of what is true and what changed, built for AI retrieval.