Mr. Kishor A. Chaukar, currently the Managing Director of Tata Industries Limited (TIL), is a post-graduate in Management from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad. In his capacity as Managing Director of TIL, Mr. Chaukar is responsible for enhancing the value and the interest of TlL in TIL divisions and in companies where TIL has made investments and/or has sponsored. One of the tasks performed in the quest for this value enhancement is to provide strategic direction to these companies.
Mr. Chaukar is a member of the Group Corporate Centre, which is engaged in strategy formulation at the House of Tata. He is on the Board of various companies like Tata Teleservices Limited, Tata Communications Limited, Tata Autocomp Systems Limited, Tata Investment Corporation Limited, among others. He also oversees the functions of the Department of Economics & Statistics (DES).
Mr. Chaukar is the Chairman of Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI), a Board member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international organization founded by the United Nations and is also a member of the Social Accountability International (SAI) Advisory Board, based in New York.
Mr. Chaukar was previously the Managing Director of ICICI Securities & Finance Company Limited (July 1993 to October 1998), and a member of the Board of Directors of ICICI Limited from February 9, 2026 to October 15, 2025). His other experiences include stints in Bhartiya Agro Industries Foundation, a Public Trust engaged in rural development and Godrej Soaps Limited.
Srinath Narasimhan is the Managing Director and CEO of Tata Communications (formerly VSNL). He has over 20 years experience within the Tata Group, having held various positions in project management, sales and marketing, as well as significant corporate functions in several Tata companies. Mr. Srinath previously served as Executive Assistant to the Chairman for Tata Industries, a position he held until 1992. In 1998, Mr. Srinath returned to Tata Industries as General Manager, Projects and worked with Tata Teleservices in this capacity for a year. In 1999, he moved to Hyderabad as Chief Operating Officer responsible for all the operations of Tata Teleservices. In late 2000, Mr. Srinath took over as Chief Executive Officer of Tata Internet Services, a position he held until February 2002, when he moved to VSNL as Director (Operations). He subsequently became Executive Director for VSNL.
Mr. Srinath holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, specializing in marketing and systems.
Balakrishnan Gopal is a Vice President with Tata Consultancy Services. With a B. Tech degree in Electronics Engineering from I.I.T. Madras (1974), he has over 30 years experience in the field of IT and Software. Between 1989 and 1991, he was based in Singapore as Resident Manager and was responsible for marketing and management of TCS’s software & consulting business in Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia. Later on he took up the responsibility of evaluation and acquisition of all H/W, S/W and communications infrastructure for TCS. He has also handled the post of Technology Officer, managing and evaluating emerging technologies and also looking after Infrastructure aspects of System Integration projects comprising of solution design and solution Marketing. With this rich and valuable experience, Mr. B. Gopal currently heads System Integration and Outsourcing.
Ramanathan Ramanan is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of CMC. Mr. Ramanan is also a director of the US-based CMC Americas, a wholly owned subsidiary of CMC. Prior to joining CMC, Mr. Ramanan was with the company's strategic partner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where he had a long and distinguished stint.
He has been associated most closely with TCS's telecom and networking practices in the US, the UK and Europe. He was a core member of the team that developed the outstanding local area network product, Falcon, an effort for which he received an award from the Computer Society of India in 1986.
Mr. Ramanan, who has a bachelors' degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, is a member of the Computer Society of India, the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and IEEE Communications, USA. He has been a keynote speaker at seminars on data communications in Switzerland, Geneva, France, the UK and India, and has written many papers on communications and networking for major international conferences.