Mr. Ananth Krishnan CTO, TCS K Ananth Krishnan is currently the Chief Technology Officer of TCS and chairs the TCS Corporate Technology Board. He has been a member of the TCS Corporate Think-Tank since 1999 and has led several strategic initiatives. Prior to assuming the role of CTO, he was a Principal Architect and Lead Consultant in the Architecture and Technology Consulting Practice and headed the TCS Systems Management and the Systems Software Group. Ananth was named in Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2007 and in Infoworld’s Top 25 CTOs for 2007. He holds an M. Tech. in Computer Science and an M.Sc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Fergusson College, Pune. He joined TCS in February 1988, straight from campus.