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S. Mahalingam (Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director)
Seturaman Mahalingam or “Maha”, as he is better known, started his professional career with Tata Consultancy Services in 1970. In his 38-year career with TCS, Maha has been involved in myriad aspects of the Company’s operations and growth, before being appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company in February 2003 and as Executive Director in August 2007.
A chartered accountant by qualification, Maha began his career as an IT consultant and thereafter played a major role in marketing TCS services across the globe, developing processes and creating large software development centres for the Company.
As an early starter in the Indian IT industry, Maha has played a key role in helping TCS become a $ 5.7 billion global company with over 116,000 employees. He has been working on off-shoring assignments in the United Kingdom for TCS since 1975 and set up TCS' UK operations in 1977.
After successful stints managing TCS' operations in the UK and USA, Maha was instrumental in helping TCS develop the scale to handle large IT projects. He set up TCS' software delivery centre at Chennai in south India, including a dedicated IBM centre, which was the largest mainframe-based centre in India.
Prior to becoming the Chief Financial Officer in February 2003, Maha has managed many of the key functions in TCS including Marketing, Operations, Education and Training as well as Human Resources. He managed the company's operations in London and New York in the early days of TCS' global journey. He has been a champion of TCS' Process and Quality initiatives, which has resulted in TCS becoming the first IT Company in the world to be assessed at CMMI and PCMM Level 5 on an enterprise-wide basis.
Maha's experience, during the formative years of the IT industry in the 1970s and 1980s, has given him significant standing within the IT industry. He is a former chairman of the Southern Region of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India's apex industry body as well as a fellow of the Computer Society of India. He was also the President of the Institute of Management Consultants of India. He is on the board member of several TCS' subsidiaries of TCS.
Maha was conferred the 'CFO of the Year' award 2006 announced by International Market Assessment (IMA) India for his work in instituting world-class standards of transparency in financial reporting and demonstrating the qualities of an outstanding finance professional.
Maha was also the winner of CNBC TV18’s Best Performing CFO Award in the Technology Sector for 2007
Born in February 1948, Maha is married with two children and lives in Mumbai.
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