Mr. A.S. Lakshminarayanan Vice President & Head Europe - TCS
Plenary - Keynote Speech
LEADING FROM THE FRONT: How IT can help solve the greatest challenges of our time
Plenary - Panel Discussion
Enabling Innovation
The panel discussion will explore how ICT can enable innovation. How to execute policy? What are the lessons learnt from around the globe?
About Mr. A.S. Lakshminarayanan
AS Lakshminarayanan (Lakshmi) is Head of TCS Europe (CEO Europe), a unit which spans 21 countries, comprises 22,000 employees and represents 30% of the company's global revenues. Lakshmi oversees strategic, customer, organizational and operational functions for the 5 sub-regions that make up this unit - UK and Ireland, Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg), France, Central (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy) and Nordic (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland). He is a member of the global leadership team and has served in the company for over 25 years.
Previously he served as the UK and Ireland Country Manager since 1999. During his tenure of over 10 years in this region, Lakshmi has overseen strong expansion of TCS' business including a doubling of operations over the 3 year period 2006-09. He has spearheaded the development of major client relationships and the founding of the European consulting practice. Lakshmi was instrumental in setting up a regulated subsidiary called Diligenta, which currently has 900+ employees providing services to the company's insurance clients worldwide. In 2005, TCS received a special investment award from UK Prime Minister Blair, in recognition of its contribution to the UK economy.
Earlier, Lakshmi had founded TCS' global Insurance practice, which he headed until 1999. He joined TCS in 1983 and has served in a variety of consulting, management and client relationship roles across the world.
Lakshmi attributes his success to focusing on answering the needs and concerns of existing and new customers; and by the related expansion of TCS' offerings to the marketplace. He is a sought-after authority on European economic issues, Global Information Technology and Strategic change; he speaks regularly at leading business forums and universities across Europe.
Lakshmi has lived and worked in the USA, Australia and Hong Kong as well as in India and the UK. He holds a Bachelor Honours Degree in Electronics from BITS Pilani in India. He is a long-standing member of IEEE Computer Society and the British Computer Society. He is also an alumnus of London Business School.