No. 22 S Ramadorai, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services
Last year's position: 22
Why? Competing on a global scale
S Ramadorai retains his position on the Agenda Setters list for the third year running as the head of India's largest IT services company.
This year the TCS success story has continued apace with profits up by a third, a string of major customer contract wins and plans to take its total headcount to more than 100,000 by the end of 2006.
But it's not just for TCS' successes that he's an Agenda Setter. It's also for maintaining the vision that TCS must compete on a global scale and become one of the top 10 IT services companies in the world - a goal he is well on track to achieve.
As one Agenda Setters panellist said: "He's turning TCS from being an Indian company into a world company - and he's doing such a good job of it."
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