U n' I with Rashmi Shetty- Vijaya Deepti

Our guest today is Vijaya Deepti - a Member – Board of Directors at Tata AIG General Insurance Co. Ltd. She is the Chairperson for the Risk

Management Committee and Member – Audit Committee at Tata AIG. She is an Independent Director at Aster DM Healthcare where she Chairs the Risk Management Committee and Technology Steering Committee in addition to being a member of the Nominations, Remuneration and Compensations and CSR Committees

She was the CEO of Tata Insights and Quants a Division of the Tata Industries Ltd. The Organization is a Center of Excellence for Data and Analytics for the Tata Group. The focus is to work with the Tata Group Companies on leveraging Advanced Analytics to address business challenges. She has been supporting a number of IEEE Working Groups to build Industrial AI Standards.

She was with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for over three decades and played a number of roles both at Corporate and Business Unit Level. As part of the Corporate Governance Team, she supported a number of SBUs in their strategic initiatives and programs.

She was on the Board of Diligenta which is a Regulated Subsidiary of TCS in UK. As Head of Global Insurance Product Business at TCS, she was responsible for product development and client delivery initiatives globally. Previously, she served as the Head of Global Insurance Delivery with an additional responsibility to grow UK and European Insurance

business. Under her leadership, the TCS Insurance unit won a number of strategic large deals, acquired new customers and achieved multifold growth.

 

As a long-standing member of TCS Business Excellence Council, Deepti has been responsible for driving the TATA Group’s Business Excellence (TBEM) initiative. She has worked as Head of Quality Council and has championed various Six Sigma Initiatives within TCS across multiple customer engagements.

In Dec 2009, she was conferred the “Leading Business Woman of The Year” award by Women Leaders in India (WLII) in recognition for her contribution towards growing the insurance business within TCS despite the global economic downturn.

She has been working with a number of NGO’s in areas such as Integrated Forest Management, Education for under-privileged and grooming of leadership talent.