SURESH RAMAN V I C E P R E S I D E N T R E G I O N A L H E A D , T C S C H E N N A I
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Suresh Raman is the Vice President and Region Head for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chennai. He manages TCS’ largest delivery centre, with over 98,000 associates. His focus areas are to provide right experience for customers and associates; facilitate talent transformation into digital technologies; promoting diversity; provide agile and sustainable infrastructure; Cost optimization; besides working closely with region stakeholders across Government, Industry Associations and Communities. An alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India, Suresh has over 3 decades of experience in Management Consulting Services and Information Technology Industry. During this period, he has held diverse leadership roles across Sales, Delivery and Operations, across multiple geographies, including, Regional Director & Head for Central Europe; Operations Head for a Global Delivery Centre, Head of Large Strategic Opportunities for a large business unit; P&L Ownership for cluster of large accounts; as well as Global Relationship Head for key global customers. Having earlier spent a decade as a Management Consultant within TCS as well as briefly with PriceWaterhouse, he had played an advisory role to MNCs as well as to Governments. He holds key honorary positions and/or is a member in core committees in industry bodies as below: Board Member and Member of the Executive Committee of the Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce Member of the Tamil Nadu State Advisory Council to develop a Federal Fiscal Model. Member of the Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission Working Group on Industrial Policy. President of the Madras Management Association (MMA) Chairman of CONNECT (2020 as well as for 2019), a premier ICT event of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), hosted by the Government of Tamil Nadu and cohosted by STPI (Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology), Government of India CII Special Invitee to the Tamil Nadu State Council & General Committee member of Madras Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) Advisory committee member of the Deakin-IIT Madras-IIT Hyderabad Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Chair of Chennai Chapter of Tata Network Forum
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