Tcs: TCS announces senior leadership changes in stock exchange filing

TCS announced multiple senior management changes, in a note to the exchanges on July 30. The changes are titled ‘Change in Management’. Earlier this year, former CEO Rajesh Gopinathan abruptly resigned and the company appointed K Krithivasan as its CEO. There have been speculations since then that there will be widespread changes in top leadership. A number of key leaders are also set to retire during the next few months. In the note, TCS also said that chief technology officer K Ananth Krishnan will retire on July 31, 2023.

The company reported that it has made several changes to identify senior management personnel (SMP) in the company under the SEBI guidelines. The SMPs identified include Harrick Vin, Shankar Narayanan, V Rajanna, Siva Ganesan, Ashok Pai and Reguraman (Regu) Ayyaswamy.
Rajashree R, former chief marketing officer at TCS is no longer a senior management personnel, the filing said. The date of cessation of her role is July 31. It is not clear if Rajashree has moved on from the organisation.

New senior management personnel as per the stock exchange filing
Dr Harrick Vin is a TCS Fellow and Chief Services Innovation Officer at TCS. He has been in academia and industry for over 30 years and has been with TCS for 18 years. Prior to this role, Harrick headed TCS Digitate. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and a distinguished Alumnus of IIT Mumbai. Prior to joining TCS, he was a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin for 15 years.
Shankar Narayanan is a Senior Vice President at TCS and has been with the company for over 30 years. He has held various important roles including the Global Head of the Retail, CPG, Travel & Hospitality businesses at TCS and Business Excellence & Transformation of large accounts. Shankar has also been the Head of TCS’ UK and Ireland Market responsible for driving business strategy, sales, operations, and delivery as well as nurturing executive relationships with customers.
Rajanna is senior vice president at TCS and the head of the communications, media and technology businesses. With 32 years in the IT industry, he has been with the company for over 29 years. Prior to this role, Rajanna was the head of the technology business unit. He has also been the Head of TCS’ Hyderabad location.
Ganesan is senior vice president at TCS and the global head of the Microsoft business unit. Prior to this, he was heading the travel, transportation and hospitality businesses at TCS. . Siva has been with Company for over 32 years and has across-the-board experience in sales, solutioning, operations, program management, delivery and global account management.
Pai is a senior vice president at TCS and the global head of TCS’ cognitive business operations (CBO). Drawing on more than 31 years of industry experience, Ashok has played a pivotal role in helping enterprises transform for the digital economy.
Ayyaswamy is senior vice president at TCS and the global head of the internet of things (IoT) and digital engineering units. A 38-year veteran of the industry, he has been with the company for over 29 years. He is responsible for creating value-based solutions and services to enable accelerated product development and integrated manufacturing for clients across the discrete and process manufacturing industries.