Hemakiran Gupta KURALLA (Kiran) is Regional Head of TCS Business Unit responsible for Banking, Insurance and Financial Services for mainland Europe. Kiran has worked previously for the State Government in India and subsequently joined TCS in 1993. He went on to play several management roles in the company in India, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Benelux and now across Europe. During this tenure, Kiran has extensively worked with various leading market infrastructure firms, such as Crest, SIS Securities, Nets and others. Under Kiran’s leadership TCS BaNCS is implemented across ABN Amro, Rabobank, SocGen, BNPP Paribas and other clients in Europe.

Kiran holds a graduate bachelor’s degree in Computer science from Mangalore University, India and an Executive PG program in International Business and Strategy from Amsterdam Business School. He is a regular invited speaker at trade events, universities and European conferences. He also serves as a board member at the Belgo Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BICC&I).

He is based, along with his wife and two children, in Tervuren(Belgium) and is a major sports enthusiast.