Nationality Indian Name Surya Kant | Religion Hindu Ethnicity Indian | |
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Occupation President North America, UK & Europe Tata Consultancy Services Alma mater Delhi Technological University, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | ||
Residence New Jersey, United States | ||
Global Retailing Conference 2010-Surya Kant
Surya "Sury" Kant is the President of TCS North American, UK and Europe operations based in New York City. Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the largest global information technology consulting and services company headquartered in India. TCS is currently (June 2015) the second most valuable IT services company in the world by market-cap. According to the TCS results for the Financial Year 2014-15, TCS North America contributed over half (53%) of the total TCS revenues. It has crossed a significant milestone of two billion dollars revenues per quarter. Apart from growth in business, TCS today has a number of large delivery centers in North America, including a sprawling campus of 220 acres at Cincinnati, OH, a Business Process Service Center at Midland, MI and a Solutions Center at Minneapolis, MN.
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In his career, spanning over 30 years to date, Sury has made a significant contribution to the Indian and Global software industry. He established the presence of Indian software industry in Japan, in 1987. In the 1990s, he was appointed the head of operations for the United Kingdom (UK) where he recorded substantial increase in visibility and business for the organization, and the Indian software industry. Until 2005, he served as the Head of Operations, for the India Northern Region of TCS.
Working in the areas of software quality assurance and later delivery center management, he also contributed significantly to the quality journey in the Indian software industry – TCS has had the distinction of being the first organization in the world to have four of its delivery centers achieve PCMM version 2 level 4, and later the first enterprise-wide CMMI level 5 and PCMM Level 5 in the world.
Sury has traveled widely and worked all over the world, such as in the U.S., New Zealand, Japan, the UK and India.
He is a member of a number of bodies connected with various academic institutions. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and academic institutions. Sury is also an advisory board member of the British-American Business, and the past Chairman of the India Business Forum (IBF) of the Confederation of India (CII) in the US. He is actively connected with various social causes, one of them being the Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer in the US. He is prominently associated with the STEM promotion in the US, driving it personally through the TCS goIT program, the US2020 initiative, and the Million Women Mentor (MWM) initiative.
Education and recognition
Sury received his master's in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Computer Technology from Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Delhi, and his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with specialization in Electronics from Delhi College of Engineering, both at the top of his class. He was recognized for his 'Contribution to National Development' by the IIT Delhi Alumni Association in 2004. He was announced as one of 'The 2011 Top 25K Consultants' by the Consulting Magazine. In 2014, Sury was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus by DCE-DTU Alumni Association. He is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States. He was recognized with 'Leadership and Service in Technology Award' by the Seidenberg School of computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University, New York in June 2015.