Balaji Ganapathy

Chief Social Responsibility Officer — Tata Consultancy Services

Balaji Ganapathy serves as the Chief Social Responsibility Officer and Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a Global Top 3 information technology leader.

His mission is to harness the power of purpose, people and technology to advance access, equity and inclusion across society. Since 2015, TCS has invested over $350M on its community initiatives and empowered millions of underserved students, minorities, youth, women and elders to be literate, healthy, educated, digitally skilled, mentored, become rural entrepreneurs and gain employment, enabling societal uplift and generational improvement.

A mission-driven leader, he served as Chair of STEMconnector’s STEM Innovation Task Force and NPower’s TCC Advisory Council. He serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Board and Education, Employment & Training Committee, World Economic Forum’s Steering Committee, Vice-Chair of Million Women Mentors (MWM), IMPACT 2030’s Advisory Council, Here2Here’s Business Council and Board of Women Business Collaborative.

His paradigm ‘Purpose is the New Tech’ has been featured in Purpose 360, Purpose Inc, Common Impact, Brand on Purpose.