Shailesh Yadav heads the insurance business for Tata Consultancy Services in Central Europe. He is a member of TCS's leadership teams for Europe and the global Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance Business Unit. He has been with TCS since 1996.

With nearly 25 years of experience in diverse services across IT and IT-enabled services, he has successfully conceptualized and implemented a variety of change and transformation programs such as business transformation, outsourcing, and several other areas. For the past 18 years, he has served the insurance industry in roles that include domain specialist, program manager, change lead, account manager, and relationship director. He has also partnered with global clients on creating and implementing sourcing strategies across industries such as retail, utilities, and manufacturing. He is an electrical and electronics engineer and a graduate of the National Institute of Technology in Surathkal, India. He lives with his wife in Munich and loves reading inspirational autobiographies and hiking in the mountains