Girija Pande

Girija Pande is the Chairman of Apex Avalon Consulting Singapore, a Singapore based company that provides Management Consulting and Business Research to businesses in the fast growing Asia Pacific (APAC) market. Mr. Pande is ex-President of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)Asia Pacific, a part of India’s largest business conglomerate.He also Chairs the Asia Board of Advisors of Chain i Q Ltd,Zurich – a global sourcing and procurement firm.

Mr Pande has over three decades of experience in senior positions in Banking and Financial Services with a Citibank affiliate and subsequently ANZ Banking Group, and in IT with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd. TCS is a global Tech giant valued at over $100 bn with over 400,000 FTE. Mr Pande set up TCS-APAC and under his Chairmanship the company grew to 11,000 associates in 14 countries. Mr. Pande was also Vice Chairman of TCS’ joint-venture with the Chinese Government, and was instrumental in building the business to over 2,500 associates in six cities in China.

He was council member for the Singapore Government’s high powered Manpower Council set up by the Infocom Development Authority and served on the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University, NTU Business School and National Council of Social Services in Singapore. He currently serves on Boards of Global Technology Companies, National Healthcare Group,SingaporeInternational Chamber of Commerce, Institute of South Asian Studies—part of NUS and serves as a Trustee of SINDA