Our Board

The Board of Diligenta sets the direction and monitors its ongoing business, ensuring effective internal controls that manage risk and satisfy compliance requirements. The Board was established in December 2005 and comprises six directors.

		Phiroz Vandrevala - Executive Director and Head, Global Corporate Affairs Phiroz is an Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Affairs at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He has worked for TCS for 28 years and today has global responsibility for Public Relations and Communications, Administration, Infrastructure, Legal and Corporate Governance as well as Business Development and Long Term Strategy. Phiroz led the TCS initiative to enter the UK Financial Services BPO market.
		N Chandrasekaran (Chandra) - Non-Executive Director Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Chandra) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services. Responsible for formulating and executing the company's global strategy, Chandra has been at helm of several key strategic transitions at TCS since 2002 when he took over the role as head of global sales. As Chief Operating Officer since 2007, he has been the architect of the new organization structure unveiled in 2008 which created multiple agile business units focused on domains and markets as well as built strategic business units in order to pursue new initiatives with the ability to invest, develop and mature new ideas.
		A.S. Lakshminarayanan (Lakshmi) - Non-Executive Director AS Lakshminarayanan (Lakshmi) is the head of the Tata Consultancy Service’s European operations, a unit which spans 21 countries, comprises 22,000 employees and represents 30% of the company’s global revenues. Lakshmi oversees strategic, customer, organizational and operational functions for the 5 sub-regions that make up this unit – UK and Ireland, Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg), France, Central (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy) and Nordic (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland). He is a member of the global leadership team and has served in the company for over 25 years.
		Sir Bob Reid - Non-Executive Director & Chairman of Audit Committee Sir Bob is Chairman of ICE Futures and holds directorships with CHC Helicopter Corporation, Sun Life Financial UK and the Merchants Trust. He is Chairman of the Foundation for Young Musicians, Conservatoire for Dance and Drama and Learning Through Landscapes. He is former Chairman and Chief Executive of Shell UK Limited (1985-1990) and he was Chairman of British Rail in the run up to privatisation, and held the post of Deputy Governor of the Bank of Scotland until 2004.
		Suresh Menon - Chief Executive Officer Suresh is a Vice President of TCS and joined Diligenta in 2006 as Director of Strategic Operation. He was appointed CEO of Diligenta in early 2008. Since joining TCS in 1986, he has held a number of senior executive positions within the organization in India, Europe and Australasia. He holds a Master’s Degree in Physics and a Master of Technology degree in Computer Science.
		Neil Reynolds - Chief Financial Officer Neil Reynolds is a Chartered Management Accountant with an outstanding record for driving change in business. His dynamic approach meets the dual challenge of exceeding client expectations and creating shareholder value. His international experience spans a broad range of multi-national service industries including senior finance roles within the life and pensions industry.