One of the youngest chief executives of the Tata Group, Gopinathan is effecting change from within to project a bolder TCS in line with the real capabilities it already delivers
Rajesh Gopinathan, CEO and managing director, Tata Consultancy Services
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Rajesh Gopinathan became CEO at TCS in February 2017, when his boss N Chandrasekaran was tapped to run the Tata Group. Gopinathan, one of the youngest CEOs in the Group, has overseen TCS’s change into an organisation that is geared to meeting the needs of customers in a world where automation and AI will play a central role.
Gopinathan is also systematically acquiring strong domain expertise, and local presence, in his biggest markets by buying up entire IT units from his customers — taking thousands of experienced IT engineers, consultants and programmers on to the rolls of TCS — in return for long term contracts, but also so TCS can offer the capabilities of those people to other customers in those markets.