Born in 1944 into a Brahmin family in Nagpur, Subramaniam Ramadorai is a man steeped in simplicity and discipline. Ramadorai retired as CEO & MD of Tata Consultancy Services in 2009, after serving the company for thirty-nine years; he continues to work with TCS in the capacity of vice chairman and is actively involved as chairman/director of various Tata and non-Tata companies and educational institutions. He took on a public service responsibility when the Indian government appointed him as the advisor to the prime minister in the National Skill Development Council with the rank of a Cabinet minister. Ramadorai was awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honours, in 2006, and the CBE in 2009. Among his many interests, Ramadorai is passionate about photography and Indian classical music. His wife Mala is an accomplished musician and an active educator; his son Tarun is a reader in finance at the Saïd Business School, while his daughter-in-law Purnima is a film producer in the UK, where she runs her own production company. Mala and Ram live in Mumbai.
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In 2003, Tata Consultancy Services set itself a mission: ‘Top Ten by 2010’. In 2009, a year ahead of schedule, TCS made good on that promise; in fourteen years, the company had transformed itself from the $155 million operation that S. Ramador... SEE MORE