Dr. Lalit Surajmal Kanodia
Chairman, Datamatics Global Services
Dr. Lalit Surajmal Kanodia is the Chairman of Datamatics Global Services Limited. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Mumbai. Subsequently, he obtained an MBA and Ph.D, both from MIT, USA. He was a topper in both these institutes.
Dr. Kanodia is a Ford Foundation Fellow. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT, Mumbai. He is one of the 10 persons included in the Hall of Fame, published by Dataquest alongwith late JRD Tata and our late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
He has served at the Past President of the Management Consultants’ Association of India and Chairman of the Electronic & Computer Software Export Promotion Council (Western Region). He is the present President of the Indo American Chamber of Commerce, Western India. He is Chairman of the IT Committee of Indian Merchants’ Chamber. He has been a Member of the Executive Committee of Nasscom. He also served on various Committees of the Government of India and the State of Maharashtra.
He has been invited to deliver the convocation address to graduating MBA students by 4 institutes and was the main speaker at the Itochu (CTC) Annual Conference in Japan.
Dr. Kanodia is currently on the Regional Board of MIT (Europe, Asia and Africa).
Dr. Kanodia is the founder CEO of TCS. While in the US, he was Consultant to the Ford Motor Company and Arthur D. Little. He also taught at MIT. He founded Datamatics Limited in 1975.
He is the Honorary Consul General of Chile in India.