Surya Kant, or “Sury”, as he is popularly known, is the president for the North America, UK and Europe Operations of Tata Consultancy Services. In this capacity, Sury is responsible for overseeing and strengthening customer relationships and revenues across TCS’ largest markets. Sury also plays a key role in growing TCS’ business in new markets and expanding its range of technology and service offerings.

Sury has been with TCS for over 30 years and has made significant contributions to the growth of the company and the software industry. Through 2006, he served as head of customer delivery in New Delhi, a role in which he managed many of TCS’ key customer relationships and grew the regional delivery center substantially.

Prior to this, he served as head of TCS’ operations in Japan and the United Kingdom, respectively. Sury started the company’s operations in Tokyo, Japan in 1987, and in the early nineties ran the TCS operations in the UK.

Sury has also worked in the areas of project management, software quality assurance and delivery center management. His efforts in these areas significantly contributed to TCS achieving the distinction of being the first organization in the world to be assessed at enterprise CMMi® Level 5 and PCMM® Level 5, an indication of the best in class.