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Mr. Srinath Narasimhan was born on July 8 1962. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT (Madras) and completed his management degree from IIM (Calcutta) specialising in marketing and systems.
Joining the Tata Administrative Services in 1986 as a probationer Mr. Srinath has held positions in the project management sales and marketing and corporate functions in different Tata companies over the last 14 years. He has been responsible for setting up new projects in high-technology areas like process automation and control computers and telecommunications. After his probation he was a project executive in Tata Honeywell from 1987 to 1988 working on getting various approvals and the necessary project funding.
He then moved to Tata Industries as executive assistant to the chairman an assignment he handled till mid-1992. He was part of the team that set up Tata Information Systems (later Tata IBM).
In June 1992 he moved into that company full-time for the next six years during which period he handled a number of assignments in sales and marketing.
In March 1998 he returned to Tata Industries as general manager (projects) and worked with Tata Teleservices in this capacity for a year. In April 1999 he moved to Hyderabad as chief operating officer responsible for all the operations of Tata Teleservices. In late 2000 he took over as chief executive officer of Tata Internet Services a position he held till February 2002 when he moved to VSNL as director (operations). | 