Our Board of Directors

Ms. Ramnath has frequently appeared in prestigious listings including Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business (Business Today, India); India’s most Powerful CEO’s (Economic Times), the Top 25 Non Bank Women in Finance (US Banker’s global list), Asia’s Women in the Mix: The Year’s Top 50 for Achievement in Business (Forbes), Top 25 women in Asian Asset Management (Asian Investor) and Most Influential Women (Business World).

Mr. A.S. Lakshminarayanan

Managing Director & CEO

Mr. A.S. Lakshminarayanan, is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Tata Communications Limited. He is a global technocommercial leader across regions and industries recognised for developing scalable businesses in UK, Europe, Japan and India, and has worked across the globe. In a short span at Tata Communications, since October 2019, Mr. Lakshminarayanan is re-engineering the Company and steering it to deliver strong profitable growth. Under his leadership, Tata Communications is progressing to play a solid role as a digital ecosystem enabler – a digital fabric on which customers can build secure, connected, digital experiences. Prior to joining Tata Communications, Mr. Lakshminarayanan was President and CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Japan, accelerating the company’s market opportunity and brand in the region. An over 35 years Tata Group veteran, engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani, and London Business School senior executive programme alumnus, Mr. Lakshminaraynan is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) long-standing member. He is also on the Board of Tata Teleservices Limited, Tejas Networks Limited, Nelco Limited, Nelco Network Products Limited and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited. He is known to drive all things technology and transformation, with trust and purpose.

Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan

Independent Director

A leading authority in the global IT sector, Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan co-founded Mindtree in 1999 and has played key roles in building the company’s innovative approach to delivering IT services and solutions to global 2000 enterprises.

Mr. Krishnakumar’s efforts as a business leader have been recognised worldwide, winning him several laurels. Businessworld and Forbes ranked him amongst the most valuable CEOs in India in 2016. He won Bloomberg UTV’s award as the CEO of the Year in 2010, Business Today CEO of the Year award in 2014 and was recognised by Chief Executive Magazine’s as one of the twelve global leaders of tomorrow. EY honoured him with Entrepreneur of the year 2015 in Services. His efforts resulted in Mindtree winning the “Most Promising Company of the Year” in 2013 by CNBC TV18. A 40-year IT industry veteran, Mr. Krishnakumar served as Chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (‘NASSCOM’) in 2013 and till recently was Chairman of Nasscom Foundation. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, Chennai, and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Xavier Institute, Jamshedpur. Social enterprises and Philanthropy are some of his other key interests. Along with his wife Akila he runs their Personal foundation “Mela” which is focused on helping high potential rural girls to attain professional qualifications and helping Senior Citizens age gracefully.

Mr. Ashok Sinha

Independent Director

Mr. Ashok Sinha is Chairman, 4 I Advisors, a proprietary consulting firm that provides a specialised spectrum of technical consultancy and advisory services in the area of Energy, Technology and Finance since December 2010. He has a wealth of experience, competencies and expertise from his leadership journey as the Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (‘BPCL’). He spent 33 years in BPCL, where he served on the Board of BPCL for 15 years – first as Director (Finance) for 10 years and then as its Chairman and Managing Director for 5 years. Currently, he serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Cipla Ltd., Tata Power Co Ltd, JK Cement Ltd, Navin Fluorine International Ltd, Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd and Cipla (EU), UK. He has been conferred with the India Chief Financial Officer Award 2001 for Information and Knowledge Management by the Economic Intelligence Unit (‘EIU’) India and American Express. He received an award from TMG (Technology Media Group) for Customer Management. He is also the recipient of the CIO-100 Award (USA)- 1999 for the top 100 firms worldwide for their innovative practices that leverage people and technology. He has attended Management Programs at Harvard Institute of International Development, Boston and at the University of Leeds, UK. He has a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and PGDBM from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, with specialisation in Finance . He has been conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award from both IIT, Kanpur and IIM, Bangalore.

Mr. N. Ganapathy Subramaniam

Non-Executive Director

Mr. N. Ganapathy Subramaniam is the Chief Operating Officer (‘COO’) and Executive Director of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (‘TCS’) since February 2017. He is also a Director and Chairman of Tata Elxsi Limited and Tejas Networks Limited.

He has over 40 years of experience in TCS in strategic management of technology and operations, across large corporations in both established and new growth markets. He has been part of the evolution of Indian IT industry, and the value creation process with a globally distributed talent. He has steered several programs which are considered ‘Important for the nation’ in many countries including India and successfully managed large client relationships across businesses. He joined TCS in 1982 after completing his master’s in mathematics from the University of Madras. He has had the benefit of attending various continuous Education programs including Prof. Philip Kotler’s Services Marketing, Prof. Michael Porter’s Marketing Strategies for the 21st Century, Business Process Re-engineering, Risk and Change Management by National University of Singapore, Tata Strategic Leadership Program and Stanford University’s Executive Program for Growing Companies.