Guiding CMC's quest for excellence and global expansion is our eminent board of directors, headed by our Chairman, Mr S Ramadorai. Our Managing Director, Mr R Ramanan, who is also our Chief Executive Officer, directs our day-to-day operations.

CMC's Board of Directors

Chairman
S Ramadorai

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Ramanathan Ramanan

Directors
Ishaat Hussain
K R S Murthy
Shardul Shroff
Surendra Singh
Kalpana Morparia

Profiles of members

S Ramadorai, Chairman

S Ramadorai has been the Chairman of CMC since 2001 and is also the Managing Director of the company's strategic partner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which he has led with distinction since 1996.

Mr Ramadorai's professional career has been defined by the leadership role he has played in making TCS Asia's largest software services enterprise, as well as a benchmark for innovation, growth and excellence in India's burgeoning IT industry. Under his guidance TCS became, in 2003, the first Indian IT company to cross the $1-billion milestone in annual revenues. His vision for the future includes helping CMC scale new heights, and establishing TCS as one of the world's top ten IT consulting companies.

The 59-year-old Mr Ramadorai started his career with TCS as a junior engineer. In 1979, he was entrusted with the critical task of setting up and developing TCS's American base in New York. This was the starting point of TCS's US network, which has blossomed into 40 offices across the country.

Mr Ramadorai was an integral part of the TCS team that pioneered the trailblazing concept of offshore development centres (ODCs), set up in India to provide high-end quality solutions to global corporations. He was at the forefront of TCS's drive to establish excellence hubs in India that worked as repositories of knowledge, expertise and equipment in specialised technology areas.

Mr Ramadorai was instrumental in enhancing TCS's quality quotient, taking 15 of the organisation's development centres in India to the coveted CMM Level 5 rating, and helping it attain the distinction of becoming the world's first company to have four centres assessed as operating at Level 4 of People-CMM.

Mr Ramadorai's many contributions to the IT industry, Indian as well as global, have been widely recognised. Among the more prominent of the many honours that have come his way are CNBC Asia Pacific's 'Asia Business Leader of the Year' award', being named one of the '25 most influential IT consultants in the world' by Consulting magazine, and being appointed IT advisor to China's Qingdao city.

Mr Ramadorai's deep commitment to promoting education is reflected in the strong ties he has with academia. He is a member of the corporate advisory board of the Marshall School of Business and is also on the advisory and governing boards of several reputed Indian institutions. Among his other distinctions, Mr Ramadorai is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Additionally, he is a Board Member of Hindustan Lever and Nicholas Piramal, and the Vice Chairman of the National Association of Software Companies (Nasscom), the body that champions the cause of India's IT industry.

Mr Ramadorai's academic credentials include a bachelors' degree in physics from Delhi University, an engineering degree in electronics and telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a masters in computer science from the University of California. He is married to Mala Ramadorai, an academician and musician. They have a son, Tarun, who recently completed his doctorate in business economics from Harvard.

Mr Ramadorai enjoys Hindustani and Carnatic music, reading and taking long walks.

Ramanathan Ramanan, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Ramanathan Ramanan was inducted to the board of CMC in October 2001 as Director and Chief Operating Officer. In December 2003, he was elevated to the position of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. 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 joined the organisation as a software engineer in 1981 and rose to become Vice President in 1999, two years before he made the move to CMC.

Over the past two decades Mr Ramanan has shouldered a wide range of responsibilities in India and abroad. He has held positions such as project leader and group leader and represented TCS as its overseas Regional Manager in the US. The latter period saw the organisation's American operations grew exponentially, and Mr Ramanan is credited with initiating a slew of significant relationships with several multinational companies that made the growth possible.

The 45-year-old Mr Ramanan has been exposed to a wide range of software and hardware environments. 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.

From July 1996 Mr Ramanan headed TCS's Bangalore operations, which registered impressive growth while focusing on providing solutions for the financial services and telecom industries. Later, he headed TCS's strategy consulting practice and, additionally, was responsible for nurturing the organisation's relationships with Microsoft, Amex and others. He has played a key role in TCS's strategic business-development initiatives in the Asia Pacific region. Mr Ramanan continues to be an integral part of TCS's strategy group.

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.

Directors

Ishaat Hussain is an Executive Director with Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, and is the Chief Financial Officer of the group as a whole. The 56-year-old Mr Hussain, a chartered accountant by training, has vast experience in the areas of finance, banking, accounts, audits, taxation and general management.

K R S Murthy, 65, has a doctorate in business administration from the Harvard Business School and did his masters in management at the Sloan School, MIT. Dr Murthy, who has written extensively on strategic and public enterprise management, is on the board of the National Stock Exchange and on the governing boards of several non-governmental organisations and educational institutions. He is currently the chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards, an organisation promoted by the government of Karnataka.

Shardul Shroff, is a Managing Partner with Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co, one of India's leading law firms. A practicing lawyer, with wide experience in the areas of project finance, corporate and structured finance, insurance, telecom, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, disinvestment, and corporate consultancy. Mr Shroff has worked closely on important economic legislation as a member of several high-powered committees appointed by the Indian government.

Surendra Singh,66, is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer. He has held a number of important positions, including Cabinet Secretary with the Government of India, Secretary to the Ministry of Industry, Special Secretary to the Government of India and Special Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. Mr Singh has also served as Executive Director on the board of the World Bank and as Director on the board of the International Finance Corporation.

Kalpana Morparia, 57, holds Bachelor's degrees in science and law from Bombay University. She is Vice Chair - Insurance Securities & Asset Management, ICICI Group. With 33 years stint in ICICI, she held several important positions and was also instrumental in the ICICI group's major corporate structuring initiative, the merger of ICICI Limited with ICICI Bank to create India's second largest bank.