The Board of Directors of Tata Motors have, on 17th January 2017, appointed Mr. N. Chandrasekaran as Additional Director and Chairman of the Board with immediate effect.
Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT solutions and consulting firm, a position he has held since 2009, having joined TCS in 1987. Under his leadership TCS has generated consolidated revenues of US $16.5 billion in 2015-16. With over 378,000 consultants, TCS has become the largest private sector employers in India with the highest retention rate in a globally competitive industry.
Mr. Chandrasekaran has been appointed as the Executive Chairman of Tata Sons and he will take charge from February 21, 2017.
Mr. Chandrasekaran has been playing an active role in the Indo – US and India-UK CEO Forums. He is also part of India’s business taskforces for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan and Malaysia. He served as the chairman of NASSCOM, the apex trade body for IT services firms in India in 2012-13 and continues to be a member of its governing Executive Council.
Mr. Chandrasekaran plays an active role in various global business forums, particularly IT and has received several awards and recognition in the business community, viz. “Business Leader award” at the ET Awards for Corporate Excellence 2016, Qimpro Platinum Standard Award 2015 (Business) and Business Today’s Best CEO 2015 (IT & ITEs), ‘Best CEO’ for the fifth consecutive year by the Institutional Investor’s 2015 Annual All-Asia Executive Team rankings. In 2014, he was voted as one of CNBC TV 18 ‘Indian Business Icons’, awarded CNN- IBN Indian of the Year in business category and was presented with the “Best CEO” by Business Today for the second consecutive year. He has also received the Medal of the City of Amsterdam, Frans Banninck Coqc, in recognition of his endeavor to promote trade and economic relations between Amsterdam and India.
He was also appointed as a Director on the board of India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India in 2016 and is currently also on Boards of Tata Steel Limited and TCS Foundation.
Mr. Chandrasekaran has a Masters in Computer Applications from Regional Engineering College, Trichy. He was conferred with the honorary doctorate by JNTU, Hyderabad (2014) and by Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Netherland (2013). Mr Chandrasekaran has also been conferred honorary degrees by many Indian universities such as the Gitam University, Visakhapatnam (2013), KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (2012) and the SRM University (2010) Chennai.
Mr Chandrasekaran was appointed as an Additional Director and Chairman of the Board with effect from January 17, 2017.