Kamal Bhadada

I am currently the President of New Business Model Group (NBMG) which includes TCS Interactive, TCS HOBS™ and TCS TwinX™ product platforms. TCS Interactive combines the best of design, technology, contextual innovation, and insights to help enterprises create purpose-driven iconic experiences to strengthen their brand with design-led transformation. TCS HOBS offers ‘best-of-breed’ solutions focusing on subscriptions, products, processes, devices and data. TCS TwinX is a risk-free business experimentation platform that creates faithful and purposeful replicas of enterprise entities in a virtual environment.

As the Global Leader for the Communications, Media and Information Services Business Unit at TCS, I help prepare our clients to transform themselves into leaders of the Business 4.0 era. In this position, I: - Guide TCS’ work within CMI industry segments - Provide new business and innovation advice for clients - Govern strategic sales leadership - Enable clients’ digital transformations

As the Global Head for Media and Information Services, I: - Built up this business from the ground up (from a small book of business) - Created and positioned innovative new offerings in emerging areas in IT and Digital Transformation - Built a foundation and strategy for growth by creating several new client relationships - Created strategic customer engagements to accelerate growth even during industry slowdowns - Managed a global P&L and scaled up to a >$500M business

As Regional Director, I: - Managed TCS Business Operations on the West Coast and scaled it up to a >$300M business - Was responsible for sales, engagement and relationship management, and delivery oversight - Revamped strategies for various markets on the West Coast and rebuilt leadership teams - Transformed the region back into one of the highest growth business for TCS North America - Built several large customer relationships and new offerings for emerging technology companies - Championed a customer-centric approach to project delivery

As Regional Director for Southern California, I: - Established TCS’ business footprint in the Southern California Region - Was responsible for sales, engagement and relationship management, and delivery oversight - Retooled go-to-market approaches for various industries within the region - Built several large and strategic customer relationships - Developed new offerings for dominant industry verticals in the region such as media and automotive - Rapidly grew the business over 4 years to >$100M

As president of the TCS subsidiary Innovatv, I: - Set up this initiative as a technology startup to spin it off as a separate company - Developed business plans, provided strategic guidance, and helped scale up leadership - Established strategic alliances with key technology companies and select media customers - Positioned the company for venture-backed funding as well as sell off in parallel - Negotiated an exit and then managed the operations during the market meltdown of 2000 - Successfully merged the company back into TCS

As TCS Client Partner for NASD, I was responsible for establishing TCS’ relationship with NASD (the owner of the Nasdaq stock market). - Worked with the NASD CIO and his leadership team to establish a strategic engagement with TCS - Established an Offshore Delivery Center with TCS and scaled up teams to support growth needs - Helped NASD ready systems to scale up to trade 1 Billion Shares/Day - Successfully sold and delivered on an end-to-end re-engineering of all major platforms, into a 3-tier web-enabled architecture with Y2K compliance for all of its regulatory systems

During my early years with TCS, I served in a variety of roles, including: - Project Leader for some of the marque client engagements - Quality Leader for TCS’ first ISO 9001 certification - Business Analyst - Programmer