Tata Consultancy Services' Chief Operating Officer (COO) and executive director N Ganapathy Subramaniam will be retiring next month, the company announced on April 12.
India’s largest software services exporter said it does not plan to appoint Subramanian’s replacement and will redistribute the duties.
“He's (Subramaniam) been doing many things and no single individual can replace him, our current thinking is, our leadership team, we are re-distributing the work he's been doing and we don’t intend to appoint a new COO,” chief executive officer K Krithivasan said while addressing a press conference post the March quarter earnings.
Subramaniam was appointed as COO of TCS back in February 2017 and has been with the company for over 40 years.
This is possibly the second instance when an IT company has made its COO position redundant, after Infosys did away with the post in December, 2021. UB Pravin Rao held the position at the time for Infosys.
N Ganapathy Subramaniam is also the elder brother of Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran.
Subramaniam joined TCS in 1982 after completing his Masters in Mathematics from the University of Madras and attended various training programs, including the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University.
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Born in 1959, Subramaniam lives in Bengaluru with his wife Shobana and two sons.
Subramaniam is also an additional director and chairman of Tata Elxsi Limited since November 2014 and the Additional Director (Non-Independent; Non-Executive) of Tata Communications Limited since December 2021.
Prior to taking over the COO’s role, Subramaniam served as the Executive Vice President and Head of TCS Financial Solutions, a strategic business unit of TCS. In that role, he was responsible for steering the non-linear growth strategies, products and platform businesses of TCS for over five years.
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He has held many key leadership positions in TCS across client delivery, business development, integration of businesses, and product development.
As head of the Banking and Financial Services (BFSI) practice for close to five years, he was instrumental in consolidating TCS’s knowledge base, calibrating domain-centric offerings, creating opportunities, and laid the foundation for its verticalisation.
Subramaniam has also played a strategic role in several landmark projects that TCS undertook across geographies.
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