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N. Ganapathy Subramaniam
Non-Executive Chairman & Non-Independent Director
N. Ganapathy Subramaniam (NGS) has been the COO of TCS since February 2017. NGS is also the Chairman of Tata Elxsi. Prior to taking over as the COO, he served as the Executive Vice President and Head of TCS Financial Solutions, a strategic business unit of TCS.
He has held many key leadership positions in TCS across client delivery, business development, integration of businesses and product development. He has been a part of TCS and the Indian IT Industry for the past 38 years. He has played a strategic role in several landmark projects that TCS undertook across geographies, and has in-depth knowledge of technology trends and systems policies of leading corporations. NGS joined TCS in 1982 after completing his Masters in Mathematics from University of Madras. He has had the benefit of attending various training programs including the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University.
P R Ramesh
Non-Executive Independent Director
P R Ramesh has over 40 years of experience serving clients in manufacturing, banking and financial services, technology, media, telecommunications, energy and resources and consumer business sectors. Prior to his association with Tejas Networks, he was the Chairman of Deloitte India and also served as a member of the Deloitte Global Board and Deloitte Asia Pacific Board.
P R Ramesh has been associated with Regulatory bodies such as SEBI Committee on Disclosures and Accounting Standards; Committee for Reforming the Regulatory Environment for doing Business in India, set up by Government of India; Technical Committee to review the form and presentation of the Balance Sheet of the Reserve Bank of India; Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Standing Committee on Accounting Issues and Invitee to the Committee set up by the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) to assist in convergence to IFRS by banks and National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards. He has also been a member of the Accounting Standards Board of ICAI, the Vision and Restructuring Committee and the Auditing Practices Committee of ICAI as well as the Secretarial Standards Boards of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Ramesh graduated in Commerce from Osmania University, Hyderabad and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Non-Executive Independent Director
Alice G Vaidyan
Non-Executive Independent Director
Mrs. Alice G Vaidyan, former Chairman and Managing Director of General Insurance Corporation of India and the first lady CMD in the Indian insurance industry has over 40 years of experience. She is considered among the foremost experts in the insurance and reinsurance industry, in India and across the globe. She has won several national and international awards. She was the only Indian in Fortune’s Global List (2018) of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. In April 2019, Mrs. Vaidyan was honored with the Freedom of City of London, in recognition of her work to promote insurance ties between India and London.
FORTUNE India named her the 4th most powerful woman in business in both 2018 and 2019. Additionally, ASSOCHAM honored her with the Leadership Excellence Award in February 2019. She also achieved the ET Prime Woman CEO of the Year award in 2019. Furthermore, Business Today recognized her as one of the 30 most powerful women in Indian business successively in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Anand Athreya
CEO and Managing Director
Anand Athreya is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of global experience in telecom equipment, networking and software industries, both in technical and managerial capacities. Prior to joining Tejas, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Juniper Networks, where he served for over 18 years and built several industry-leading products. Before Juniper, Anand worked in diverse management roles in Procket Networks, Malibu Networks, Tiara Networks, and also held senior engineering positions at Novell.
Anand earned his B.E in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University and M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Osmania University, India. He later moved to the USA where he obtained an MBA from National University (California) and also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Arnob Roy
Executive Director & COO
Arnob Roy is the Co-Founder, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Tejas Networks. He has over 30 years of experience in research & development, operations and sales in the high-tech industry. Prior to Tejas, he held senior management positions at Synopsys Inc. and Cadence Design Systems.
Arnob Roy holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
