Roslyn Layton, Outsourcing Consultant, formerly TCS

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s leading information technology and software consultancy, is a $4 billion annual revenue enterprise and operates 19 innovation labs around the world. It is the single largest software exporter of India. TCS has a forty year history in software development, including the establishment of India’s first and largest software R&D center and the development of leading software solutions in a dozen industries, particularly finance. Its Quartz platform powers both the New York and Swiss stock exchanges. TCS’s software solutions are located with 250 customers in 80 countries around the world.
Roslyn, the first American woman hired to work in Hyderbad for TCS, was part of an elite team that devel-ops and markets disruptive technology in life science, e-security, language processing, open source, and quantitative finance. She performed M&A activities to acquire advanced technology in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. Roslyn was sponsored by the Wall Street Journal Europe to attend the Global Executive OneMBA pro-gram, an intense study of business on-site in the U.S., China, Brazil, Mexico, and Europe. Having returned to the US from India, she consults on outsourcing, innovation, globalization, and marketing to clients in IT, management consulting, and private equity. She is compiling in a forthcoming book on her years working in India and outsourcing. www.roslynlayton.com