PR Krishnan, Formerly Executive Vice President & Global Head, Enterprise Intelligence Automation & Artificial Intelligence, TCS
PR Krishnan (PRK as he is popularly known to by his colleagues ) was Executive Vice President & Global Head, Enterprise Intelligent Automation & Artificial Intelligence (EIA & AI) at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) until December 2020. In this role, PRK helped business and technology leaders drive innovation and integrate digital technologies – AI, smart automation, machine learning and cognitive computing – into their business model for growth and transformation. In his career spanning 40 years, PRK incubated several new practices including Cloud, AI, Infrastructure Services, BPO and Telecom into large scale businesses for TCS.
PRK strategized innovations that drive human – machine collaboration that serve as the guiding force for elevated growth and success in the Business 4.0 era. PRK spearheaded the strategic initiative in TCS using a Machine First™ approach across client engagements to institutionalize adoption of digital technologies like Automation, Analytics, IoT and AI. PRK’s team created new opportunities for enabling the world’s leading enterprises to become AI ready and harness human ingenuity together with machine precision. For more than 35 years, PRK has played a pivotal role in coaching large teams, demonstrating thought leadership and innovation towards uncovering insights and creating exponential value for large enterprises incubating the Telecom, BPO and IT Infrastructure businesses within TCS.
Prior to leading the EIA & AI portfolio, PRK served as Global Head of the IT Infrastructure Services, overseeing the expansion of this TCS services portfolio to close to 3 Bn USD business over a period of 12 years. Earlier part of his career, he successfully led several of TCS’ Global Delivery Centers (GDC), pioneering the creation of the company’s Global Network Delivery Model (GNDM™) for GE and other large customers of TCS.
He was also responsible for creating and running the telecom delivery centers for TCS, where he built a 3000+ strong business unit servicing over 40 customers, growing the practice in a time when the telecom industry was just beginning to embrace technological advancements. PRK has contributed significantly towards leading a very successful SEI CMM Level 5 assessment that became a new benchmark and model across TCS at the turn of the century Currently PRK is actively involved in advising and guiding mid size and start ups and product companies to scale , transform and innovate.
