Taruna Gupta is the Head of IP Governance, Training & Assessment at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). She has 28 years of IT industry experience at TCS, spanning across the entire gamut of Intellectual Property Management & Governance, Product Engineering, Presales, Business Strategy Planning, Program Management and Delivery, Practice Management, Alliance and Analyst Relations Management. Currently as part of the TCS Corporate IP & Engineering Group, she is responsible for establishing corporate IP governance processes and systems for TCS IP, customer IP and third party in IP products, platforms and solutions. She also works closely with different TCS business units to guide them on IP creation & protection, risk management and assetization; enabling them with IP and software engineering best practices and compliance to IP commitments, and establishing IP linkages in TCS offerings. She regularly interacts with global IP ecosystem stakeholders, including industry and professional bodies, government agencies and other organizations, to promote collaboration, policy interventions and ecosystem maturity in intellectual property. She has also represented TCS on the technical advisory board for the Indian Patent Office and have been associated with Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) since 2014.