How TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan came to lead India's most valuable firm

Rajesh Gopinathan talks to Niraj Bhatt about his journey from being CFO to the corner office at the country's most valuable company

The CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a company which touched the $100-billion market capitalisation mark last month, is not the typical head of an information technology (IT) company. Unlike most of his peers in other tech companies who have cut their teeth in software delivery or sales roles, Rajesh Gopinathan comes from the finance function. Over breakfast of idlis at the company’s sprawling campus in Mumbai, he jokes, “When I became CFO people asked, ‘You don’t have a finance background? How can you be a CFO?’ Now they say, ‘You are from finance, how can you be