Subramaniam Ramadorai

Ramadorai was born in Nagpur, Bombay Presidency on 6 October 1945 in a Tamil family.Ramadorai received his primary and secondary education at D.T.E.A Sr. Sec School, New Delhi. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Delhi University, a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1993, Ramadorai attended the senior executive development program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

He holds a rank equivalent to an Indian Cabinet Minister. He is also the chairperson of the governing board of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Bharathidasan Institute of Management, chairman of Tata Elxsi. Earlier, he was CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services from 1996 to 2009 & Vice - Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services till October 6, 2014 transforming TCS from a company with $400 million revenues and 6000 employees to one of the world's largest software and services company with more than 200,000 employees working in 42 countries and revenues over US$6.0 billion.

Beginning his career with TCS as a junior engineer in 1969, he rose through the ranks and eventually was charged with setting up TCS' operations in the United States in 1979 in New York, which has since grown to over 40 offices throughout the country. Since taking on the role of CEO, Ramadorai focused his efforts on building relationships with large corporations and academic institutions, planning and directing technology development and acquisitions and overseeing the company's research and development activities.

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Ramadorai is the Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), TATA Technologies Limited and TATA Elxsi. He is also on the board of directors of Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Nicholas Piramal India Ltd. He is also the independent director at Hindustan Unilever Limited. On 17 June 2013, AirAsia India announced that he has been appointed as the chairman of the airline. He was also invited to VIT University, Vellore & NMIMS 12th University day on 13 January 2015 as a chief guest.

On 16 September 2011, his book The TCS Story... and Beyond was published, covering his time at Tata Consultancy Services.

AWARDS

In 2006, on India's Republic Day, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour.

In 2004, he won Business India's "Business Man of the Year" award.

During 2003, Ramadorai received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indore Management Association

Distinguished Achievement Award from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Fellowship of the Institute of Management Consultants of India.

He has also been honoured with CNBC Asia Pacific's prestigious 'Asia Business Leader of the Year' Award in 2002