AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2005
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S Ramadorai

No. 22 S Ramadorai, CEO and MD, Tata Consultancy Services

Last year's position: 20

TCS is the biggest of the Indian IT outsourcers and, on the back of the growing impact of offshoring on the IT services market, S Ramadorai made his debut in the Agenda Setters last year ahead of his main rivals at Infosys and Wipro.

Ramadorai is the man who has led TCS to the top spot since he took over as CEO in 1996 - after starting at the company as a junior engineer - and oversaw an IPO on the Indian Stock Exchange that raised $1.17bn despite a choppy financial market. His goal is to make TCS a top 10 global IT company by 2010.

TCS continues to bag the big contracts and it is because of this continued march of the offshore players into the territory of the traditional 'big five' western IT outsourcers that Ramadorai is one to watch.

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