Vinod Bhat

Vinod Bhat is the CIO & Chief Ethics Counsellor at Vistara - Tata SIA Airlines Ltd. Vinod has been in this role for 1 year and 3 months, and is responsible for elevating the Vistara Experience to customers and staff by leveraging digital technologies and enabling advancements in the IT infrastructure.

Prior to their current role, Vinod worked for Tata Consultancy Services for 28 years and 2 months, where they held various positions including Global Business Head - Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG): UK, Ireland and Europe & Delivery Center Head, Head - Retail & CPG (North), Global CPG Delivery Head & Delivery Center Head (DCH), Global Relationship Director, eBusiness Practice Head & Relationship Manager, Program Manager & Team Lead. In these roles, they were responsible for managing complete P&Ls, business growth, delivery, customer interactions, margin management, and team management. Vinod also headed the operations for the largest TCS Delivery Center of Delhi NCR region with 6000 associates.

During their time at Tata Consultancy Services, Vinod won several customer partner awards for excellent partnership and value creation, as well as the TCS Retail & CPG North India accounts head, where they won several large deals for TCS which helped grow the Retail vertical for TCS. Vinod also won the prestigious "Product of the Year" award while working on an Internet Telephony VoIP product based on SIP protocol in New Jersey (USA), and the "Knight of the Town Award" from General Electric (GE) Information Services while working in Maryland (USA).

Most recently, Vinod has been awarded the CIO100 2021 Award by International Data Group (IDG), the IDC Industry ICONIC Innovation Award 2021, the CIO1000 APAC Award 2021, and the BTAwards21 (Mint-TechCircle Business Transformation) Award.

Vinod Bhat has a Master of Technology from the University of Hyderabad in Computer and Information Sciences, General from 1991 to 1992, a Master of Science from the University of Kashmir in Electronics from 1987 to 1989, and is certified in Project Management from the Project Management Institute and Quality Assurance from the Quality Assurance Institute.