S. N. Subrahmanyan

S. N. Subrahmanyan, known as SNS, has been chairman and managing director of Larsen & Toubro since 1 October 2023. Born on 16 March 1960 in Chennai, he took a civil engineering degree at Regional Engineering College Kurukshetra (1982), an MBA from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management in Pune and an executive programme at London Business School. He joined L&T in 1984 in the ECC Division, became a full-time director in July 2011, deputy managing director and president in October 2015, and took over from A. M. Naik as managing director and CEO on 1 July 2017. He is vice chairman of LTIMindtree and L&T Technology Services, chairs L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) and L&T Finance, and chaired the National Safety Council from February 2021. His strategy repositions L&T as a technology-driven group, with expansion into AI, semiconductors, data centres and defence electronics and the sale of non-core businesses. His FY2024 remuneration was Rs 510 million. In January 2025 he drew wide criticism for endorsing a 90-hour work week; he later said the remarks were casual and made out of frustration. His net worth was not stated.

• 1984 · Joined the ECC Division · Larsen & Toubro
• 2011 · Full-time Director and Senior Executive Vice President (Construction) · Larsen & Toubro
• 2015 · Deputy Managing Director and President · Larsen & Toubro
• 2017 · Managing Director, then CEO and MD (from 1 July) · Larsen & Toubro
• 2023 · Chairman and Managing Director (from 1 October) · Larsen & Toubro

• Civil engineering degree, Regional Engineering College Kurukshetra (now NIT Kurukshetra), 1982
• MBA, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
• Executive Management Programme, London Business School

• Best CEO, Infrastructure Sector, Fortune India Best CEOs (2022)
• Best CEO, Infrastructure & Engineering, BT-PwC India's Best CEOs (2022)
• CEO of the Year (private), CNBC-Awaaz (2019)
• IIM-JRD Tata Award (2019)
• Infrastructure Person of the Year, Construction Week (2012)