Abhinav Kumar is the Chief Marketing Officer of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), leading a team of 700 professionals in 55 countries who oversee the company’s brand, reputation and stakeholder relationships. Over a 23-year career, Abhinav has been part of a leadership team that has scaled the company 44-fold, from US$700m to US$31bn in revenues, and from a workforce of 18,000 to one of 600,000. During his career, TCS’s brand value has grown exponentially from US$2.3bn in 2010 to US$23.1bn in 2025. The brand has also been named one of the Top 50 brands in the world by Kantar Brandz and seen a tripling of brand awareness from 29% in 2010 to 95% in 2025. Abhivar has been named in the Influence 100 list of the world’s most high-impact chief marketing officers and chief operating officers for four years running, from 2021 to 2024.