Rishabh Khemka takes the TaskUs CFO seat after steering Encora through Coforge’s buyout

TaskUs appointed Rishabh Khemka as chief financial officer effective June 19, 2026, and announced the move on June 22. For Indian American and other diaspora professionals watching who runs the finance stack at U.S.-listed tech-services firms, the hire is a familiar pattern: a Chartered Accountant who learned the Americas book at a NYSE-listed Indian IT giant, then took a PE-backed digital engineering firm through a major India-listed acquisition.

Khemka is 43, according to TaskUs’s Form 8-K. He succeeds Trent Thrash, who had served as interim CFO since March 2026 and stays as senior vice president of corporate development, investor relations, and treasury, reporting to Khemka.

CEO Bryce Maddock framed the appointment around TaskUs’s AI push. Maddock said the company wanted a CFO who could scale global technology-services businesses while investing in AI-enabled offerings and operational discipline. Khemka said TaskUs sits at the intersection of AI, digital operations, and talent, and that he plans to partner with leadership, the board, and teammates on that strategy.

His résumé tracks the corridor many diaspora finance leaders know from the inside. He spent more than 18 years at Wipro, culminating as CFO of the Americas business. An earlier Encora appointment release said that Americas portfolio was about $3.3 billion and spanned technology products, software platforms, healthcare, retail, consumer goods, and communications. He also served as CFO of Wipro Ventures and held finance leadership roles in Wipro’s consulting and Designit units.

In January 2025, Encora named him CFO. Encora is a digital engineering firm previously backed by Advent International and Warburg Pincus. TaskUs says he helped lead Encora through its acquisition by Coforge Limited, an NSE-listed IT services company, and then directed financial integration.

That deal was large even by IT-services standards. Coforge announced an agreement in December 2025 to buy Encora at an enterprise value of about $2.35 billion, later describing closure in April 2026 and consolidation of Encora financials from May 1, 2026. Khemka’s move to TaskUs in June came weeks after that integration calendar started.

TaskUs itself is a New Braunfels, Texas-based provider of outsourced digital services, including digital customer experience, trust and safety, and AI services such as data annotation and model evaluation. Investor materials around early 2026 described tens of thousands of teammates worldwide, with major delivery footprints in the Philippines and India. A May 2026 10-Q also noted that the company’s principal operations, including a majority of employees and fixed assets at wholly owned subsidiaries, are in the Philippines.

That geography is the household-money angle hiding inside a CFO announcement. Payroll, facilities, FX, and client mix at a firm like TaskUs sit across U.S. public-market reporting and Asian delivery centers where many teammates send remittances, fund siblings’ schooling, or support parents. The person who owns capital allocation and investor messaging helps decide how hard the company can invest in AI tools, sites, and wages without breaking the story Wall Street wants to hear.

The SEC filing also sets out compensation that underlines how expensive a public-company CFO seat has become. TaskUs disclosed a $550,000 base salary, an annual bonus opportunity of up to 80% of base salary with a 2026 floor of at least 40% of earned base, a $1 million sign-on bonus earned quarterly over three years with repayment rules if he leaves early outside a qualifying termination, and a target annual equity grant value of $1 million beginning in 2027, subject to compensation-committee approval.

Education details in earlier Encora and American Bazaar coverage place him as a St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata alumnus and a graduate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Encora’s 2025 release also said he lived in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, with his wife and daughter.

An appointment does not guarantee smoother quarters. TaskUs still has to convert AI services demand into durable margins, manage a large Philippines and India workforce, and keep trust-and-safety and customer-experience clients through product cycles. Khemka’s hire does show where boards are looking for CFOs: people who have closed books across continents and lived through an India-U.S. deal machine.

For diaspora professionals building their own finance careers, the useful takeaway is less the title and more the sequence. Deep operating finance in a large India-origin multinational, a PE-backed mid-market CFO seat with an exit integration, then a U.S. public-company role. That path still rewards technical accounting credentials, but it also rewards fluency in investor narratives and cross-border delivery economics.

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