Current Minister for IT & Digital Services, and former Minister for Finance & Human Resources Management of Tamil Nadu. Second term MLA from Madurai (Central) Constituency. Former (Founding) Head of the DMK IT Wing, and now Head of its Asset Protection Committee. Fourth generation in the Dravidian Movement, and 3rd generation elected representative and Minister.

Prior to electoral politics, was an expat for over 25 years (20 in the US) and had a professional career spanning various fields including Consulting and Investment Banking. Served as Head of Offshore Capital Markets at Lehman Brothers when bankruptcy was filed. Last professional role prior to politics was Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Money Markets, TBFX & E-Commerce at Standard Chartered Bank, based out of Global HQ at Singapore.

B. Tech (Hons) Chemical Engineering from NIT, Trichy. MS (Operations Research) & Ph.D. (Engineering Psychology) from SUNY, Buffalo. MBA (Finance) from MIT Sloan.