'The day my heart is not 100% committed': TCS's Gopinathan explains exit

Gopinathan said TCS is the market leader in its space, and has given industry-leading results

Rajesh Gopinathan had been thinking about stepping down as CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services and doing something else for quite some time. He even discussed this with N Chandrasekaran, his mentor and chairman of Tata Sons, but the priority always remained solving the problem at hand.

“There is nothing more challenging than doing the quarter-after-quarter performance update, and making sure that performance keeps up. I have been doing that for 10 years and I enjoyed it but sometimes when you reach a milestone, you start thinking what’s next,” shared Gopinathan at a press briefing.

A person who has always measured