Dr. K.N. Vyas is a distinguished Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at the Department of Atomic Energy, a former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and a former Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy. A Mechanical Engineering graduate from MS University, Vadodara, Dr Vyas completed his training with the 22nd Batch of the BARC Training School in 1979, after which he joined the Fuel Design & Development Section of the Reactor Engineering Division at BARC.

Dr. Vyas has made significant contributions to the design and analysis of nuclear reactor fuels, including the development of a novel fuel for strategic applications. His expertise extends to thermal hydraulics and stress analysis of critical reactor core components, where he played a pivotal role in executing strategic projects. Notably, Dr. Vyas was a key contributor to the design and analysis of the Test Blanket Module for the international ITER project in France.

Dr. Vyas’s significant contributions to the field have been acknowledged with several prestigious awards. These include the Indian Nuclear Society Outstanding Service Award in 2011, the Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award in 2006, and multiple DAE Awards between 2007 and 2013. His status as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers further underscores his expertise and dedication.

In 2016, Dr. Vyas was appointed Director of BARC, and in 2018, he ascended to the role of Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy. After an illustrious career spanning 44 years, Dr. Vyas retired on May 3, 2023.

Currently, Dr. Vyas serves on two prestigious bodies representing Tata Trusts: the Court of IISc as a Tata Trusts nominee and the Council of Management at TIFR.

Other Directorships: From March 2016 to March 2019, Dr Vyas served as a Nominee Director on the boards of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited and Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited.

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Dr Alka Mittal is a former CMD and Director (HR) of ONGC, India's National Oil Company, and the Chairperson of the ONGC Group of Companies, which includes ONGC Videsh, HPCL, MRPL, OPaL, OTPC, and others. These companies have a significant presence in refining, petrochemicals, power, and renewables, and Dr. Mittal strategically steered their business to greater heights.

Dr Mittal is the first woman ever to head ONGC, one of India's most valuable companies. She also became the first woman Functional Director of ONGC in its history when she assumed the charge of Director (HR) in 2018. After an illustrious career spanning more than 37 years, she superannuated from the services of ONGC in August 2022.

Dr Mittal holds a postgraduate degree in Economics, an MBA in HRM, and a doctorate in Commerce and Business Studies, specialising in Corporate Governance. Additionally, she has the Non-Executive Director Diploma from Pearson SRF BTEC Level 7 Advanced Professional Diploma from FT, UK.

Dr Mittal is an industry veteran with a wealth of experience driving major strategic and impactful human resource programs and policies. She is also a CSR specialist who has led hundreds of impactful CSR projects nationwide, helping build sustainable communities.

Dr Mittal has served on the Boards of various institutions and professional bodies, including IIM Trichy, RGIPT Amethi and Sivasagar, the National HRD Network, and the Hydrocarbon Sector Skill Council. She has also been the CEO of the Hydrocarbon Sector Skill Council. She is a member of IIM-Ahmedabad's Global Community of Practice, an opt-in group of leaders and professionals.

Since 2001, Dr Mittal has trained more than 12000 ONGC graduate Trainees on Corporate Governance and is dedicated to coaching young professionals.

She has been placed in the Fortune Global Top Ten Women CEOs list in 2023 and received prestigious awards such as the Inspiring CEO of India Award, HRWorld Thought Leaders 2022 by Economic Times, Silver Stevie Award in the Woman of the Year category at the International Business Awards 2021, Powerful Women's Trophy by Fortune India on 3rd March 2023, and many other recognitions.

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Lakshmanan Krishnakumar (LKK) is an accomplished finance professional with extensive experience across diverse sectors, including consulting, engineering, hospitality, retail, and consumer industries. With over 20 years of service in the Tata Group, LKK exemplifies commitment and expertise. He holds esteemed qualifications in Chartered Accountancy, Company Secretarial, and Cost and Management Accounting, and is a member of each of these institutes.

Currently, LKK serves as the Non-Executive Chairman of Tata Consulting Engineers, an engineering, project, and construction management company within the Tata Group. He also chairs several board committees and is a board member of Infinity Retail Limited, the Tata Group's electronics retail company, where he leads the Audit Committee.

In March 2024, LKK retired from his full-time executive role at Tata Consumer Products Limited (TCPL), where he held the position of Executive Director and Group CFO. With over a decade on TCPL’s board, he contributed significantly to its subsidiaries and joint ventures, including Tata Starbucks Limited. Under his leadership, TCPL evolved from an Indian tea company into an international food and beverages corporation, with strategic acquisitions central to its growth. During this time, he also served as Group CFO in London, driving TCPL’s global transformation.

LKK’s tenure at TCPL reflected his broad expertise, covering finance, legal, company secretarial duties, strategy, M&A, internal audit, risk management, investor relations, and communications. His leadership extended to overseeing supply chain and IT functions, which he later relinquished as TCPL scaled its operations.

Prior to his work at TCPL, LKK was the CFO at Indian Hotels Company Limited (TAJ), where he played a vital role in various joint ventures and acquisitions, including Taj Lands End, Taj Asia, and TAJ-SATS.

Before joining the Tata Group, LKK served as General Manager of Finance at Larsen and Toubro, India’s largest engineering and construction company, managing business finance, tax, accounting, treasury, and M&A functions. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Consultant in the Management Consultancy Division at AF Ferguson & Co. (now part of Deloitte), overseeing numerous projects across India and the Middle East.

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With a career spanning more than 30 years Rajeev has an extensive experience in Risk Management, Consulting and Financial Services. A very meticulous individual Rajeev has a keen eye for detail - an essential trait for a Risk Manager. Rajeev’s ability to grasp the business quickly enables him to provide holistic insights to business risks.

Rajeev Tanna, based in Mumbai, India, currently serves as the Head of Risk Management and Internal Compliance at Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE). In this pivotal role, he is responsible for the comprehensive oversight of risk management practices, ensuring rigorous monitoring, reporting, and adherence to internal systems, tools, and process compliance. His duties extend to being accountable to both the Board and Executive Committee of TCE. Additionally, Rajeev plays a crucial role in developing and implementing customised risk frameworks, embedding risk management concepts into strategic planning and proactively identifying and mitigating risks across the company's spectrum of operations, with a particular emphasis on bids and projects.

Before his tenure at TCE, which began in 2018, Rajeev honed his skills at Cairn, the Oil & Gas Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of Vedanta Limited, from 2015 to 2018. There, his responsibilities encompassed developing and implementing a risk management framework across the strategic business units and projects. His rich background in risk management also includes a significant period from 2009 to 2015 at the GMR Group, where he was instrumental in developing and deploying the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework across the group's various projects and assets. This role also covered governance and the cultivation of a risk-aware culture within the organisation. Additionally, Rajeev has accumulated a wealth of experience through various risk and consulting roles at esteemed firms such as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Aon Global Insurance Services.

Rajeev's contributions to TCE have been instrumental in fostering a culture that is deeply aware of risk management. His expertise in the field has established him as a thought leader, evident through his active participation and recognition as a speaker and panel member at numerous esteemed forums on risk management, including engagements with CII, NIA, and NMIMS, among others.

Moreover, Rajeev holds the distinguished position of chair of the India Regional Group of the Institute of Risk Management, UK, further highlighting his commitment and contribution to the field of risk management on both a national and international scale.

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With more than 18 years of experience, Sridhar Radhakrishnan is the Chief Financial Officer of Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd. TCE offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary design & engineering services and Project Management across several sectors.

Mr Sridhar joined TCE from Tata Chemicals, where he was heading Strategic Finance and Investor Relations and was business controller for their India Operations. He worked in Tata Sons as a part of the Group Chairman & Group CFO office between 2014 and 2019. In this role, he has worked on various M&A, Corporate finance activities across industry verticals. Before Tata Sons, he worked in Tata Teleservices for over eight years, where he was involved in large-scale fundraising both on debt and equity in both domestic and international markets, financial planning & analysis, business partnering and areas of strategic planning.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Osmania University in 2003 and passed his Chartered Accountancy examinations from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 2004. He completed his articleship from a member firm of Deloitte.

He started his career in the Tata Group through the Group CA program. He has around 18 years post qualification experience in areas of Treasury & investor relations, business controllership, financial planning and analysis, business finance, and M&A in diverse industry verticals. Outside the Tata Group, he had a brief stint with Whirlpool of India looking at procurement finance.

With more than 30 years of experience in engineering, Atul is the Chief Technology Officer at Tata Consulting Engineers, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. Atul is a process engineer with experience in petroleum refining, petrochemical and chemical processes. He is a renowned thought leader in energy transition and a trusted technology advisor in new energy markets including hydrogen, natural gas and low-carbon fuels.

Atul joined TCE in 2017 and currently leads a team of domain experts to create innovative solutions and prepare the organisation for adopting new and futuristic technologies. He is also responsible for knowledge management, developing value addition and innovation culture, academia and other strategic technological partnerships and is actively involved in technology roadmap studies, evaluation and selection.

Before joining TCE, Atul served Aker Solutions for more than two decades and was involved in engineering several complex megaprojects. His specialised experience includes basic/detailed engineering of several petroleum refining processes, process flowsheet synthesis and simulations. He has also worked on petrochemical and gas processing technologies. With his vast experience in process engineering, Atul has chaired several HAZOP sessions and actively contributes towards process safety management studies.

Atul has contributed several technical papers addressing various issues related to process design engineering both in national and international journals. He is an active contributor and a thought leader participating in several industry forums, conferences and technical panels.

Atul has contributed several technical papers addressing various issues related to process design engineering in national and international journals. He is an active contributor and a thought leader who participates in several industry forums, conferences and technical panels.

Atul is actively involved with academia by developing curricula and mentoring undergraduate chemical engineers in various colleges. His areas of interest include process simulations, new emerging energy markets, green hydrogen, green chemicals and sustainable industrial energy transition technologies.

As a gold medalist and 1st rank holder in chemical engineering graduation, he is passionate about emerging technologies. He has significantly contributed towards creating solutions for ‘Energy Transition’ related technologies at TCE.

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With over 34 years of experience, Parthasarathy is the Cluster Head - Infrastructure, Sustainability and PMC Services at Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd. TCE offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary design & engineering services and Project Management across several sectors.

In his current role, Parthasarathy is responsible for P&L, business growth, and delivery globally for the Infra cluster. He possesses over three decades of rich experience in project management, comprising project coordination, contract management, planning, execution, change management, closure of contracts, business development, and operations.

Prior to this role, Parthasarathy was the Business Unit Head of the PMC Business for all domestic and global projects. He has delivered mega projects for various clients in power, IT/ITES, Commercial, Infrastructure, and Industrial and has exposure to international project delivery, having worked from concept to commissioning of  Information Technology Park in Mauritius.

Projects delivered under him include IT/IES Campus developments for TCS/Wipro PAN India. Technology Centre in Mauritius, Tidel Park Prestigious govt project of Tamil Nadu, Many Cement plants for ACC/Tata and power plant for APGPCL and many more.

Partha is a qualified TBEM external assessor and was part of TBEM team on an international assignment. He has undergone Management development programs in TMTC and Tata E-Group leadership program.

Prior to joining TCE, he worked with a Renowned Contracting firm for projects in Mumbai.

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An Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai alumni, Pravinchandra Shahu is a transformational leader and a remarkably formidable Information Technology professional. With a career spanning over 28 years across various global and regional enterprises, Shahu has an exemplary track record of leading teams in times of change, designing and driving the creation of technology solutions that generate a competitive edge and accelerate the growth of the business.

As Head of Digital, Shahu is responsible for lending strategic vision and direction in key areas such as Digital Asset Management, Asset Digitisation, Asset Condition Monitoring and Asset Performance Management using the Industry 4.0 solution stack. As CIO, he is responsible for providing strategic leadership and technical expertise to ensure the smooth running of IT services, systems and applications for all Business Units. He also holds the responsibility to collaborate with the business to explore developmental ideas & current processes while positioning the company for long-term sustainable success and identifying and managing technology risks across the organisation. He is also part of the Executive leadership team providing strategic leadership for business growth.

Shahu’s first stint at TCE was as a young engineer from 1992 to 2000. Shahu worked with Wockhardt Ltd. from 2000 to 2008 and returned to his alma mater TCE, in 2008. He was responsible for developing various software packages, designing the Local Area Network of various TCE offices, providing consultancy services for external clients, etc.

Throughout his association with TCE, Shahu has spearheaded momentous technological transformation journeys like conceptualising ‘Digital PMO’ and designing and developing various processes, namely, Employee self-service portal, Project Lifecycle Management, Invoicing and cost control, Project forecasting and governance etc. He has also developed and designed in-house HR applications for Talent Acquisition, Talent Management & Succession Planning, Performance Management, LMS, EES Intranet Portal etc.

Through his rich portfolio, Shahu brings a wealth of experience fostering technology partnerships while linking strategy to execution. His vast body of work is preceded by his passion for championing a culture where people are engaged and are provided opportunities to take risks, experiment and share ideas. He believes in constantly adding demonstrable value not just as Business Technology Leader but also as an overall strategic visionary and change agent.

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A Ph D from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Dr Malur has more than 29 years of experience in Product and Plant Engineering. A firm believer in embracing change, his penchant for new technologies, intense process, and people management skills have helped Dr Malur excel in various roles.

Dr Rajashekhar Malur, also known as Raj, is currently based in Bengaluru, India. He is responsible for the Plant Engineering & Design Cluster, which includes the Power, Hydrocarbon & Chemicals, and Mining and Metallurgy Businesses of Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE). As the Cluster Head, he is passionate about sustainable growth and the P&L of the business cluster. Raj is also committed to leading his team along the lines of Energy Transition.

Before his current role, Raj led the Power Business unit as the Unit Head. This role required him to oversee the P&L and growth of the Power business unit, which included both Generation (Thermal, Nuclear, Hydro, Renewable) and Transmission & Distribution sectors.

Previously, Raj was the Chief Technology Officer, leading a team of senior Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across Business Units and Disciplines. His team was responsible for developing technology strategies and new service offerings that aligned with the tech strategy. He also worked closely with various business unit heads to ensure technology relevance.

Prior to joining TCE, Raj worked with GE John F Welch Technology Centre from 2000 to 2008. He held various roles such as Project Lead for CF34 Engines in Aviation, Leader for Reliability team in Energy, Engineering Manager for Thermal Systems and Power Plant Engineering, and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt from GE. He also worked with Electrowatt Engineering Oman from 1998 to 2000, handling Gas-fired power plants in Oman and Qatar. Before that, he worked at TCE from 1994 to 1998, where he worked on Tarapur Atomic Power Plant Unit 3&4.

Raj has in-depth knowledge of technology, innovations, and technology trends. As a thought leader, he has spoken at various Indian and International forums and regularly interacts with the industry bodies shaping opinions. Raj was a member of the Governing Council of Consulting Engineers Association of India between 2019 to 2022 and is also on the Editorial Board of CEAI’s publication “Viewpoint”. He also serves as an Advisor to universities on engineering education.

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Himanshu is Head of Strategy & Business Excellence at Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE), India’s largest private-sector engineering and project consultancy firm providing concept to commissioning services, planning & consulting, design & detailed engineering to project management & safety.

Himanshu is a business leader with over 14 years of cross-functional experience (Strategy, Business Development, Project Management, Operations) across a wide range of sectors - Infrastructure, Aerospace, Transportation.

Himanshu began his career as a mechanical engineer with the Indian Railways in 2005. After completing his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he joined the Tata Group as part of their TAS leadership program.

Before joining TCE, Himanshu led the setup of Indian Rotorcraft Limited (Tata Sons JV) for aerospace manufacturing. Himanshu joined TCE in 2014 and has since performed multiple roles as part of different businesses and functions at TCE.

In his current position, Himanshu works closely with TCE’s Board, MD and leadership team to formulate and implement strategies to fuel TCE’s growth. He also spearheads TCE’s Business Excellence function and is a key member of the Executive Council and Corporate Management Committee.

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With more than 3 decades of experience in Corporate Finance and Accounting, Guru is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd. TCE offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary services in Design & Engineering and Project Management across several sectors.

As a CFO – TCE, Guru is responsible for providing useful financial insights to the management for formulating and executing Business Strategy. He is the voice of the company in communications to the Board as well as Group Center. He actively participates in Corporate Policy development and jointly with the Leadership team drives the Annual Budgeting and Forecasting process.

As a core member of the Risk Management activities at the corporate level, Guru actively participates in strategic decision making on projects to participate in and countries to do business with.

At TCE, Guru is also responsible for engaging the Board’s Audit, Investment and other committees on financial delivery, providing timely commercial and technical advice to SBUs and managing the financial systems, processes and supporting IT enabled environment to effectively manage the role requirements. He is also responsible for developing tools and systems to provide critical financial and operational information to the MD and to the Board while spearheading the entire gamut of financial operations of the company.

Guru has about 3 decades of experience working with best-in-class organizations like L&T, Wipro, UTC-Collins, EDS, Conduent Inc. (formerly, Xerox / ACS) and now Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE)

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With over 23 years of experience in Sales & Marketing, Rajat is the Head of International Sales & Marketing at Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd. TCE offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary design & engineering services and Project Management across several sectors.

Rajat Kaushal is the Head of the International Marketing Group (IMG) at Tata Consulting Engineers. In this role, Rajat oversees the company’s Sales & Marketing efforts for Europe, APAC, the Middle East, Africa & USA. He drives go-to-market strategy, key customer relationship management and sales operations management.

As part of the Executive Leadership Team, Rajat drives the company’s growth strategy and customer acquisition. He has been instrumental in transforming TCE into an International organisation and has led various internal growth initiatives.

Rajat joined TCE in 2013 and has held a series of Leadership roles before being appointed as the Head of IMG. He was also responsible for incubating the Engineering IT business unit (now called Digital & Advanced Technologies) before setting up and expanding the international sales organisation.

Prior to joining TCE, Rajat was part of Infosys for 13+ years in various delivery, engagement, sales & leadership roles. He was part of the Engineering division of Infosys and managed clientele such as Alstom, ABB, Airbus, Metso, Syngenta etc.

Rajat started his career with IPCL (Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, now part of Reliance Ltd.) in 1999

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With more than 21 years of experience in Human Resource, Nidhi Mehandiratta is the CHRO & Head of Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. TCE offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary design & engineering services and Project Management across several sectors.

As CHRO, Nidhi is responsible for designing and deploying HR strategy, overseeing end-to-end HR systems, handling employee relations, ensuring compliance with regulations, assessing staffing needs, cascading organisation values & ethics, crafting talent development strategies, managing workforce budgets and creating a high-performance culture.

In her CSR portfolio, Nidhi is responsible for defining and developing the strategies for bridging community and business goals to drive impact through TCE’s CSR initiatives and transforming opportunities for significant shared value creation in the global community.

Nidhi’s sparkling career spanning nearly two decades, her strategic mind, and innovative thinking around talent and leadership gives her the impervious foundation to lead the Human Resources function at TCE. Her strengths lie in areas such as HR Strategy, Performance Management, Competency Frameworks, employee engagement, Talent Management, understanding the needs of local communities and the corporate’s social responsibility.

Before joining TCE, Nidhi has shouldered various managerial and leadership responsibilities across industries such as Pharmaceuticals, consulting and technology. Ever since the beginning of her journey with TCE in 2008, Nidhi has incubated, implemented and validated many of the latest trends in people management. She has engendered and driven many forward-thinking HR initiatives that have set the chinning bar for Human Capital in the EPC landscape.

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With a career spanning more than 16 years, Sachin Mishra heads the Legal & Company Secretarial function at Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE) and is the In-house General Counsel. In this role, Sachin is leading a team of subject matter experts (SMEs) in company & industrial laws and contracts.

At TCE, Sachin ensures legal compliance (domestic & international), contacts, and manages corporate governance and dispute resolution. He is also responsible for carrying out Due Diligence of prospective Clients, Partners, Sub-Consultants and Vendors.

As the Compliance Officer, Sachin is responsible for creating awareness regarding Anti Bribery & Anti-Corruption (ABAC), Anti Money Laundering (AML) and allied policies of the organisation.

As the Head of Contract Management, Sachin helps define the contract's primary and standard terms and conditions for the organisation and ensures compliance with the terms and conditions.

Before joining TCE, Sachin served Tata Petrodyne Limited from 2009 to 2014 and was responsible for various roles such as Company Secretary, Contract & Procurement Management, FEMA-related matters, and worked on various international projects.

He is a distinguished speaker at forums such as FIDIC, ET Legal Summit, INTA, and a committee member at the Confederation of Indian Industry and Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

AWARDS

- Governance Professional of the Year award by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India in 2021

- General Counsel of the Year 2021 at the 7th Edition India Legal Summit & Awards 2021

- Forbes India and Legitquest enlisted Sachin in “Top GC-Powerlist 2021" in March 2022

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Amit Sharma is the MD & CEO of Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE), India’s largest Indian private sector engineering and project consultancy providing concept to commissioning services – from planning & consulting, design & detailed engineering to project management & safety.

Before becoming the MD, Amit was the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of TCE from July '12 onward and on the EcoFirst Services Private Limited board from March '13 onwards.

Amit's experience spans Design and Engineering Consulting with a focus on Product Development, Project and Plant Engineering and Design & Asset Lifecycle Management across Process, Discrete and Infrastructure sectors. He has championed the creation and implementation of enabling governance, business models, change management, program management and solutions.

Amit strongly believes in leveraging people, process and computer-aided design & engineering digital toolsets to promote transformation and collaboration. He is a promoter of the next generation of lean thinking, innovation, agility and optimization across the engineering and design value chain.

Prior to Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE), Amit served as the Resident Director of Atkins India Pvt Limited, part of the global engineering and design firm WS Atkins PLC. In this role, he was responsible for the Global design centre of excellence and Atkins India business spanning Energy, AEC, Rail, Transportation, Aerospace, Water & Environment and Infrastructure related engineering consulting.

Before joining Atkins in London, UK, Amit was with Infosys based in London. He spent close to a decade spearheading the Engineering & Design, Product Lifecycle Management and Embedded Systems offerings across the globe. At Infosys, Amit managed clients worldwide, spanning sectors ranging from Automotive, Aerospace, Retail, Energy to Heavy Engineering, Agro-Chemical, Pharmaceuticals and Hi-Tech.

He started his professional career at Tata Motors before moving to the US. He did his higher studies and worked with Sapient Technologies in their Collaborative technologies practice, and led the creation of the Product Lifecycle Management offering.

At TCE, Amit works closely with the team to charter TCE's growth, scale, and evolution into an innovative and leading Design & Engineering Consultancy across selected sectors and International markets, leveraging its glorious 60 years of proven excellent track record . Amit is also leading industry trends like energy transition, sustainability. industry 5.0 etc.

He also is a Central Governing Council Member of the Services Export Promotion Council (SEPC) and Chairs the Design, Engineering and Construction sector.

As the General Council member of Consulting Engineers Association of India (CEAI), he champions the cause of the Indian Consulting Engineers fraternity.

AWARDS

- CEO of the Year Awarded by Indian Achievers Forum

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Mr Sriram Kadiyala is a Non-Independent Director on the Board of Tata Consulting Engineers Limited. He has more than 15 years of experience in the finance domain, including corporate relationship management, project finance, leverage finance, capital markets, and rating advisory. He has been with Tata Group since September 2017 and is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Tata Electronics Private Limited. Prior to his current role, Mr Sriram worked in the Group Chairman’s office at Tata Sons.

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With more than 40 years of experience in the Power Industry at various leadership positions, Anjali is the Non-Independent Director at Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited. TCE offers a wide range of multi-disciplinary services in Design & Engineering and Project Management across several sectors.

Anjali has about four decades of multi-faceted experience in the Power sector. Her experience includes leadership roles in Engineering, Project Management, Commissioning & Maintenance of Power plants and Transmission systems. She has held the position of Chief (Corporate) Engineering prior to superannuating from Tata Power after 39 years of service.

Anjali has extensive experience in managing the basic engineering and technology selection in the engineering of Thermal Power plant projects and major capital expenditure projects for meeting emission norms in Thermal plants. She has expertise in Project Management, Commissioning and Maintenance of Thermal Power plants, quality management of projects in Generating plants and Transmission systems.

Anjali’s experience also includes Human Resources with a focus on development of new HR processes and systems. Anjali has also served as the POSH Chairman for Tata Power Group of Companies for the last five years of her stint at Tata Power.

Anjali has also been associated as a Consultant for the planning and execution of large infrastructure projects. She continues to serve as a Board member on multiple Tata Power subsidiary companies, such as Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd, Industrial Energy Limited and WalwhanRenewable Energy Limited.

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Since May 2019, Mr Ashok Sethi is the Chairman of Tata Consulting Engineers. Backed by an extensive experience of 43+ years across the utility sector value chain Mr Sethi in his last role, was the Chief Operating Officer & Executive Director at Tata Power Company Limited. He is a well known expert in thermal and renewable generation, transmission& distribution, fuel procurement, project execution, O&M services and power trading.

Mr Sethi holds the merit of leading business strategy and growth through M&A and Green Field Projects. He has also managed various other critical corporate functions like Engineering, O&M transformation, Testing & QA, Environment, Projects, Corporate affairs, Regulatory Legal & Advocacy, Commercial, Security and Safety.

Along with serving on the Board of Tata Power as Executive Director, Mr Sethi was also a board member on seven key Tata Power Subsidiary and JV companies. He was also the Chairman of Coastal Gujrat Power Limited (4000MW), Maithon Power Limited, WREL (Renewables), Industrial Energy Limited (Thermal Generation) and TPTCL (Trading). He has also served on the board of companies like AGL, Georgia, ITPC Zambia and MSEB Holding Company Limited.

His expertise and innovative thinking on sectoral reforms, has allowed him to lead regulatory and advocacy efforts for over a decade. He also has the unique experience of managing a parallel distribution licensee in Mumbai in a very competitive environment and steered the company into achieving major market share in Mumbai transmission and nurtured distribution from 22,000 to 700,000 customers through long term planning and high-quality service. In 2014, he architected the efforts for re-obtaining the distribution & transmission licenses in Mumbai for Tata Power for a period of 25 years.

Mr Sethi also has been an active member of multiple executive & core committees of renowned institutes like WRPC, CBIP, MSPC etc. He has invested in building strong relationships with key stakeholders in government, regulators, customers, associations & community. His thought leadership and valuable insights have led him to contribute in areas like Sectoral Reforms, Regulations, Operations, Energy Efficiency & Demand Side Management.

Recently, he led an O&M transformation across Tata Power GTD assets to a completely digitalised Reliability Centered Maintenance on an IoT platform. His unique analytical and artificial intelligence-based approach propelled competency building, process simplification, big data analytics and optimum cost of O&M. He has mentored and coached leaders to create a good bench strength in Tata Power and has conducted workshops on acquiring transformational leadership capability for senior executives.

Mr Sethi has authored many papers in professional forums and media on tariff design for Discoms, parallel licensee operations, embedded generation, grid integration with renewables, distribution technologies, customer service, reliability of supply and implementation of new environment norms.

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