Srinath Narasimhan

Biography

 With over 30 years of experience within the Tata group, Mr Narasimhan has held various leadership positions across Tata companies in areas such as process automation and control, information technology and telecommunications. Prior to joining Tata Teleservices, Mr Narasimhan was the managing director and CEO of Tata Communications (erstwhile VSNL). Under his leadership, Tata Communications has transformed from a monopoly, public sector undertaking into a global communications services provider offering advanced network, data centre and managed services to customers worldwide. Mr Narasimhan has received several recognitions in the telecom industry. For a period of two consecutive years (2008 and 2009), he was named the world’s eighth most influential telecom personality by the Global Telecoms Business magazine as well as the ‘Telecom Person of the Year’ by the India-based Voice and Data magazine in 2008. Mr Narasimhan was named the ‘Telecom CEO of the Year’ in Asia by the leading publishing group Telecom Asia in 2006. In the same year, he was also conferred the Udyog Rattan Award by the Institute of Economic Studies. Mr Narasimhan has also served as the chief executive officer of Tata Internet Services in late 2000 and as chief operating officer at Tata Teleservices in 1999. In the early part of his career, he was executive assistant to the chairman of Tata Industries, a position he held until 1992. He was part of the team that set up Tata Information Systems (later known as Tata IBM) and where, between 1992 and 1998, he worked on a number of assignments in sales and marketing. In addition to being managing director of Tata Teleservices and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra), Mr Narasimhan also serves as a director on the board of Tata Business Support Services, Honeywell Automation India, Viom Networks (now ATC Telecom Infrastructure) and Tata Communications. Mr Narasimhan holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, specialising in marketing and systems.

Research Interest

 Management