N. Ganapathy Subramaniam

N. Ganapathy Subramaniam (NGS) is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of TCS since February 2017. He is also a Director and Chairman of Tata Elxsi Limited since November 2014.

He is a software engineer at heart, started his career at TCS as a programmer and has held many key leadership positions across Client Delivery, Business Development, integration of businesses, branch management, country head, business unit head and Product Development, before assuming the role of COO.

NGS has over 35 years of experience in TCS in strategic management of technology and operations, across large corporations in both established and new growth markets. He has been closely involved with the evolution of Indian IT industry, and the value creation process with a globally distributed talent. He has had the opportunity to work closely with several global corporations across Financial Services, Telecom, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Public Services, Manufacturing and Technology companies besides. As TCS’s executive sponsor for some these corporations, he contributed to their overall technology strategy, growth, and transformation initiatives at large, which has given him an in-depth knowledge of IT trends and the systems policies of leading corporations.

He has steered several programmes which are considered ‘Important for the nation’ in many countries including India and successfully delivered large, complex, multi-country implementations across businesses.

NGS joined TCS in 1982 after completing his master’s in mathematics from the University of Madras. He has had the benefit of attending various continuous Education programs including Prof. Philip Kotler’s Services Marketing, Prof. Michael Porter’s Marketing Strategies for the 21st Century, Business Process Reengineering, Risk and Change Management by National University of Singapore, Tata Strategic Leadership Program and Stanford University’s Executive Program for Growing Companies.

NGS lives with his wife Shobana and two sons in Bangalore. An avid reader and keen supporter of community initiatives, NGS enjoys classical music, long walks, and Nature.