Sanjay Parthasarathy, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Leidos

Sanjay Parthasarathy is the vice president of strategy and business development at Leidos’ defense business. His responsibilities include forming and implementing strategies and leading front-end business development and marketing engine operations to establish an efficient and balanced opportunity pipeline.

Prior to the said role, Parthasarathy worked as Leidos Defense’s vice president of business development. He joined the company in 2019 after spending one year at LMI as senior vice president, chief information security officer and its first chief technology officer, according to his LinkedIn profile. At LMI, he helped the company deliver digital modernization, logistics and health care transformation to federal government customers.

Parthasarathy brings to Leidos more than 25 years of experience in business development and corporate strategy. He previously served as senior vice president of strategy at Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions where he led the development and implementation of strategy for three business units designing and manufacturing electronics used in satellites, computed tomography medical scanners, missiles, radars and avionics. 

Parthasarathy also held the corporate strategy director role at Harris Corporation with a focus on unmanned systems and geospatial intelligence and the strategy and finance director position at Raytheon where he directed finance operations and analytics for its business development team and helped cross-sell products across defense and commercial market segments. 

The executive’s experience also includes serving Honeywell for 13 years in various roles focused on avionics, air traffic management solutions and industrial wireless automation.

Parthasarathy holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Mumbai and master’s degrees in nuclear engineering and general management from Texas A&M University and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, respectively.