Prabu Natarajan is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SAIC, a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation’s technology transformation, with annual revenues of $7.4 billion and approximately 24,000 employees.
SAIC provides engineering, digital, artificial-intelligence and mission solutions across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets. Natarajan oversees all financial activities of the company, including accounting and financial reporting, treasury, tax, planning and analysis and investor relations. Natarajan has led key initiatives for SAIC, including acquisitions and divestitures, strategic financial planning and shareholder-friendly capital deployment.
Prior to joining SAIC in January 2020, Natarajan was vice president of financial planning and mergers and acquisitions for Northrop Grumman and a member of its corporate CFO council. He was responsible for the development of the company’s long-term strategic plans; pension, real estate and facilities portfolio; and capital allocation matters that included peer benchmarking, financial performance metrics and incentive compensation. He also managed Northrop Grumman’s mergers and acquisitions process.
Natarajan was also vice president of business management and CFO for Northrop Grumman’s information systems sector. He provided leadership for the sector’s business management activities, including finance, accounting, contracts, pricing, procurement, regulatory and export compliance and real estate and facilities.
Before joining Northrop Grumman in 2011, Natarajan held positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and senior roles at global energy company AES Corp.
Natarjan has extensive experience in strategic planning, long-range financial and business operations planning, finance and accounting, mergers and acquisitions and creating and managing successful finance organizations. He earned his Bachelor of Law from the University of Madras, in India, and a Master of Law from Queen’s University, in Canada, and Harvard Law School.
Natarajan currently serves on the board of directors for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.