Ramadorai sixth most influential IT leader

In what can be termed as the growing prowess of the Indian IT sector, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director S Ramadorai (pictured) has been named as the sixth most influential person in the global enterprise IT sector.

Ramadorai was ranked a notch below Oracle's Larry Ellison, but was positioned above IT biggies such as Alfred Chuang and Kevin Rolls by global IT magazine Computer Business Review (CBR).

"What led us to put him at number six is his firm's winning of one of the UK's largest ever business process outsourcing (BPO) deals, a $848 million, 12-year-contract from UK's Pearl Group. It is also the largest manpower transfer deal undertaken by any Indian IT company," said CBR officials.

"His efforts have helped make TCS one of the largest global software and service companies, with almost 50,000 associates working in 53 countries and an annual revenue of $2 billion. Under Ramadorai's watch, TCS has more or less doubled its revenue every two years. TCS best reflects the profound influence that offshoring, and in particular Indian offshoring, has had on the enterprise IT sector," they said.

UK-based CBR is considered as the largest IT enterprise magazine in the world.