Malur Narayan

  • Malur is a proven technology business leader with over 30 years of experience in the technology industry having worked on five continents. He has held a broad range of senior management roles at Nortel and Tata ranging from product engineering, sales, business development, and product management. Malur currently leads the Technology Business Unit for North America. He is also on the board of a few tech startups and charitable organizations.

    In a previous role reporting to the TCS CEO, Malur helped to bring TCS's digital solutions to benefit the Tata group companies — including a Big Data Customer insight program, which has since been spun off as a separate company, Tata IQ.

    From 1992 to 2009, Malur held several progressively senior positions at Nortel in R&D, Product Management & Marketing, and Sales across various parts of the globe. He drove Nortel's growth in the service provider space in Asia while being based in Singapore, and subsequently led the Enterprise portfolio for Asia. He also served as Consulting Director, Wireless at Bell Canada International in South America.

    Malur pioneered self-managed teams in software development in the early 90s. His early research in Reverse Engineering, Inverse resolution, and Induction led to the introduction of Adaptive learning algorithms in Machine Learning in 1991.

    Malur holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA from Canada, and an advanced management program through Harvard. He began his career as a software engineer at Nortel.

    He has been a speaker at several International business forums including EMBA programs at Cornell University, Imperial College of London, Indian Institute of Management, and Queens University in Canada.

    He is known for his positive attitude, people skills, and great sense of humor, and is immensely passionate about trail hiking/running, creating music, gardening and writing. He is the founder of BrillianMinds.in, a charitable foundation for mental health care and awareness.

    His story on building relationships and the personal brand has recently been featured in a book titled “Get your Next Promotion”, by Manbir Kaur

    Malur is based in Austin, Texas.