P H Vijaya Deepti

Independent Director at Aster

Ms. Deepti is a member - Board of Directors at Tata AIG General Insurance Co. Ltd. She was the CEO of Tata Insights and Quants a Division of the Tata Industries Ltd. She was with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for over three decades and played a several roles both at Corporate and Business Unit Level.

She was on the Board of Diligenta, UK which is a Regulated Subsidiary of TCS for Third Party Administration for Life Insurance Business. 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 several strategic large deals, acquired new customers and achieved multifold growth. Deepti’s experience in delivering large scale transformations, coupled with thought leadership enable her to be a sought-after business advisor to CXOs of Global Corporations.

In Dec 2009, she was conferred the “Leading Businesswoman 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 actively working with Forest First Samithi in its reforestation efforts and has been supporting education endeavors of poor students for over 30 years.