Tata Communications Appoints Pathmal Gunawardana as Its New Americas Chief

Increasing customer demand for software-defined hybrid networking and
business collaboration services set to drive Tata Communications’ growth
in the region

MATAWAN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tata
Communications
, a leading global digital infrastructure provider,
has named Pathmal Gunawardana as its Head of Americas. In his new role,
Gunawardana will be responsible for accelerating customer adoption of
Tata Communications’ hybrid WAN, cloud enablement and business
collaboration services across North and South America.

This appointment reinforces the company’s growth strategy in the U.S.,
which focuses on leveraging its global technology capabilities and
partnerships with the world’s leading cloud players to support
multinational enterprises’ digital transformation. According to McKinsey
Global Institute
, over the last decade, the global flow data has
accounted for $2.8 trillion of the world’s GDP — exerting a larger
economic impact than trade in physical goods. To keep up, companies are
replacing traditional private networks with next-generation hybrid WANs
that give them better visibility and control, and boost application
performance, while reducing networking costs.

As businesses become more and more dependent on cloud and mobile
applications to operate effectively on a global scale and stay
competitive in the digital economy, we’re seeing growing demand for our
capabilities
,” Gunawardana said. “We have a differentiated
value proposition in the U.S. market, which consists of the reach of our
global network and the cloud connectivity, mobility and UCC services it
underpins; our strategic partnerships; and our knowledge of regulatory
issues across emerging and developed markets. This unique combination
puts us in an ideal position to address our customers’ increasingly
complex and rapidly changing technology needs.

At present, the U.S. is Tata Communications’ largest market outside of
India, and the company is seeing increasing adoption for its business
collaboration and mobility expertise, as well as its IZO™
SDWAN
, IZO™
Internet WAN
and IZO™
Hybrid WAN
cloud enablement services. These services enable
businesses to build an innovative enterprise network that combines the
scalability and cost-effectiveness of the public Internet with the
resilience and reliability of a private network.

To future-proof its capabilities, the company continues to invest in its
offering in the Americas. For example, it is part of a consortium of
leading technology companies building the new Hong Kong-Americas (HKA)
cable system between California, Hong Kong and Taiwan, which will bring
enhanced speed and reliability of connectivity between the business hubs
of Asia and the U.S. Through its global network and cloud, mobility,
IoT, collaboration and security services, Tata Communications today
carries around 30% of the world’s internet routes and connects
businesses to 60% of the world’s cloud giants.

Gunawardana has been with Tata Communications since 2015, serving
previously as the company’s Vice President of Sales for the Americas. In
this role, he was responsible for driving the development of near and
long-term go-to-market strategy in both the service provider and
enterprise segments in the region. Prior to joining Tata Communications,
Gunawardana was Head of Global Mobility Vertical Sales at Juniper
Networks. He has also held positions at Nokia Siemens Network, Alcatel
Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs.

Sumeet Walia, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Tata Communications,
said: The Americas is our second biggest market in revenue
terms, but it still has considerable growth potential too. I am
confident that with Pathmal at the helm, more and more multinational
enterprises in the region will look to us to meet their cloud
networking, hybrid WAN and business collaboration needs
. Furthermore,
Tata Communications is a business that values greatly our ‘DRIVE’
company culture, and we see our employees’ success as a key driver for
our business success. That’s why it’s so great to see talented,
ambitious individuals like Pathmal rise through the ranks and become one
of our regional leaders.

Ends…

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a leading global digital infrastructure provider
that powers today’s fast-growing digital economy.

The company’s customers represent 300 of the Fortune 500 whose digital
transformation journeys are enabled by its portfolio of integrated,
globally managed services that deliver local customer experiences.
Through its network, cloud, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT),
collaboration and security services, Tata Communications carries around
30% of the world’s internet routes and connects businesses to 60% of the
world’s cloud giants and 4 out of 5 mobile subscribers.

The company’s capabilities are underpinned by its global network, which
is the world’s largest wholly owned subsea fibre backbone and a Tier-1
IP network.

Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and
the National Stock Exchange of India, and it serves customers in more
than 200 countries and territories worldwide through its technology
capabilities and partnerships.

www.tatacommunications.com

Forward-looking and cautionary statements
Certain words and
statements in this release concerning Tata Communications and its
prospects, and other statements, including those relating to Tata
Communications’ expected financial position, business strategy, the
future development of Tata Communications’ operations, and the general
economy in India, are forward-looking statements. Such statements
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors,
including financial, regulatory and environmental, as well as those
relating to industry growth and trend projections, which may cause
actual results, performance or achievements of Tata Communications, or
industry results, to differ materially from those expressed or implied
by such forward-looking statements. The important factors that could
cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially
from such forward-looking statements include, among others, failure to
increase the volume of traffic on Tata Communications’ network; failure
to develop new products and services that meet customer demands and
generate acceptable margins; failure to successfully complete commercial
testing of new technology and information systems to support new
products and services, including voice transmission services; failure to
stabilize or reduce the rate of price compression on certain of the
company’s communications services; failure to integrate strategic
acquisitions and changes in government policies or regulations of India
and, in particular, changes relating to the administration of Tata
Communications’ industry; and, in general, the economic, business and
credit conditions in India. Additional factors that could cause actual
results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such
forward-looking statements, many of which are not in Tata
Communications’ control, include, but are not limited to, those risk
factors discussed in Tata Communications Limited’s Annual Reports. The
Annual Reports of Tata Communications Limited are available at www.tatacommunications.com.
Tata Communications is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims
any obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements.

Contacts

Tata Communications
Natalie Papaj
+ 1 703 657 8332
natalie.papaj@tatacommunications.com

Hill
+ Knowlton Strategies
Rick Cohen
+1 212 885 0563
rick.cohen@hkstrategies.com

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