Srikantan Moorthy

Srikantan Moorthy - known as Tan to friends and colleagues is a Senior Vice President and Group Head Education & Research (E&R) with Infosys. Tan has more than 23 years of experience in the Information Technology based Professional Services Industry. He spent 12 of those years working in the US during which time he gained hands-on experience in strategy formulation, operations management and talent development.

Tan started his career as a software engineer and has worked on a variety of computing platforms working on both systems and applications programming. Tan has played multiple roles including those of a division General Manager and Client Partner working with Fortune 500 clients. During his tenure at Infosys, Tan managed client delivery for a large business unit managing projects worth over two hundred million dollars with a team of more than 4000 people.

As head of Education and Research at Infosys, Tan's primary responsibility is talent development through competency building. The residential 19 week training for fresh engineers joining Infosys is a key program run by Infosys E&R. Over 15,000 fresh engineers go through this program every year. The certification program of E&R is aimed at renewal of competencies of experienced professionals in the organization. More than a 100,000 assessments are conducted annually as part of this program. Infosys Campus Connect (which is also run by E&R) partners with over 500 engineering colleges in India and provides interventions to raise the employability of graduating engineering students.

Tan has a passion for people development and has been involved in the competency development initiatives at Infosys. He is part of the Infosys Competency Council. Tan is also a member of the Professional Development Committee of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and is on the board of IUCEE (Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education).

Tan has a Bachelor's in Engineering from Bangalore University.