Natarajan Chandrasekaran

N. Chandrasekaran is chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, whose businesses operate in more than 100 countries. He is also chairman of many of its companies, among them Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors and its Jaguar Land Rover arm, Tata Steel and Tata Power. He was named for the Padma Bhushan in 2022 in the field of trade and industry, from Maharashtra ^[1].

Thirty years at TCS

Chandrasekaran was born on 2 June 1963 and earned a master’s in computer applications from the Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli, in 1986 ^[2]. He joined TCS straight from university and rose over 30 years to become its chief executive and managing director, a post he held from 2009 to 2017 ^[2]. Under him TCS built a global delivery network across five continents, entered new markets including Europe, China and Latin America, and became India’s most valuable company as well as its biggest private employer ^[2].

Beyond the group

He has been a director on the central board of the Reserve Bank of India since 2016 ^[2]. He chairs the board of IIM Lucknow, is president of the court of the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, and co-chairs the India–US CEO Forum ^[2]. He was elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering for his contribution to the software industry in India ^[2]. He co-wrote Bridgital Nation, on using technology to widen opportunity in India ^[2].