Banking on cloud

06.08.2012
Based in Singapore, Vish Iyer is president, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-Asia Pacific, where he is responsible for managing TCS operations across five geographies and 13 countries in the region. Recently, he had a freewheeling conversation with Zafar Anjum in TCS' Singapore office. The discussion ranged from his new role in the company to the company's initiatives and plans for the region. Here are excerpts from the interview.

There is no fundamental change in the role. We run Asia Pacific as a P&L. I took over the P&L role two years ago from Girija (Girija Pande, chairman of Tata Consultancy Services for the Asia Pacific region). He was then the chairman of the company. So, both of us were available side by side. Girija was focusing on China and I was focusing on all other markets. So, what it means is that a lot more personal attention to China will be the single most important change, if at all. I was always on the board of TCS China. I used to go there once a quarter. Now I will probably go there much more frequently. Other than that, functionally it is the same thing.

It has been in focus for a while. Let me start with TCS and we come back to China.