Leadership

C Vijayakumar has spearheaded HCLTech’s strategy to help forward-looking enterprises reimagine their businesses through transformative technology solutions, services and products. He joined HCLTech nearly three decades ago as a member of the core team that designed and implemented India’s first ever fully automated trading network at the National Stock Exchange. Previously, as President of HCLTech’s Infrastructure Services Business, he led its exponential growth and market dominance over the years. As part of the founding team of its wholly owned subsidiary HCL Comnet, he and the team are widely credited with having founded the Remote Infrastructure Management proposition which is today a multi-billion dollar global industry.

Vijay’s leadership has been lauded globally, with Business Today rating him as the ‘Best CEO of the Year, 2020’ in the IT/ITES Industry. Previously, he was included in the list of ‘Top 10 Disruptive CEOs’ by industry analyst group HfS. Vijay is deeply invested in promoting sustainable business practices, resulting in HCLTech’s position in the Edelweiss’s annual ‘ESG Scorecard & Rating, 2021’. The company was also named ‘Corporate Citizen of the Year’ 2021 by The Economic Times.

Vijay is widely recognized in the industry for his strategic thinking and impeccable execution. He is currently a member of the World Economic Forum’s IT Governor’s Community and a Board Member of the U.S.-India Business Council.

Prateek Aggarwal brings experience in driving strategic initiatives, financial planning and analysis, business finance and contracting, investor relations and legal and compliance to his role.

Prateek played a pivotal role in scaling HCLTech’s Products & Platforms business and leading M&A pursuits from financial and legal perspectives. He leads strategic financial and operational initiatives for HCLTech to accelerate growth and enhance profitability.

Apparao VV, is responsible for accelerating HCLTech’s nearshore strategy and enable a seamless delivery model for its clients.

Apparao has been with HCLTech since 2002 and served in key leadership roles across the globe. Prior to his appointment as the Chief Delivery Officer, he was Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for HCLTech and was responsible for scaling the talent base from 120,000 to 210,000 ideapreneurs and transforming the company’s workforce into a competitive differentiator. Before that he served as the Corporate Vice President in the Financial Services Delivery business.

He is widely admired amongst his peers for his deftness at integrating and managing diverse, multi-cultural and multi-national teams.

Apparao has a Master’s Degree in Engineering as a Gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has also published several research papers in industry publications and holds two patents.

Ajit Kumar is responsible for reimagining the business processes and the underlying technology to transform the company into a truly global digital organization.

Prior to becoming CIO, Ajit was responsible for the delivery of application services to support HCLTech clients’ digital transformation efforts. He was also responsible for diversifying the company’s delivery landscape by leveraging capabilities in Tier 2 cities in India and other low-cost locations in Asia and near-shore centers in Europe and LatAm.

Before joining HCLTech, Ajit held several roles at Accenture, including establishing its consulting business in India and incubating and growing the offshore technology capability in India, the Philippines, China and Eastern Europe. He was a Managing Director of global technology delivery for the Resources market unit, covering oil and gas, chemicals, metals, mining and utilities.

Jill Kouri is responsible for developing and building the HCLTech brand as well as driving growth across the company's broadening suite of technology services and products. Jill leads all marketing functions across the global business, including corporate marketing, vertical and horizontal marketing, recruitment marketing, corporate communications and digital marketing.

Prior to joining HCLTech, Jill served as the Chief Marketing Officer, Americas for JLL and held various marketing leadership roles for Accenture, including serving as global head of marketing for the $10 billion Products Operating Group.

A strong believer in the advancement of women in the workplace, Jill has long supported Dress for Success, serving on the not-for-profit organization’s advisory council. She was named a 2016 Woman of Influence by the Chicago Business Journal.

Over the past two decades at global technology company HCLTech, Kalyan Kumar, known as KK, has played various roles across solutions, business development, alliance management, practice, CoE and delivery after starting at HCLTech subsidiary HCL COMNET in 2000.

Presently, KK is the Global Chief Technology Officer and Head – Ecosystems, overseeing all product and technology strategy, emerging technology incubation and the overall cloud offering – CloudSMART. He leads the HCLTech ecosystem units spanning cloud, TechOEMs, Telcos and the start-up ecosystem e-STiP.

KK also is the Chief Product Officer for HCLSoftware (HCLTech Software Products & Platform business including DRYICE.AI, Actian and Industry Software). He is responsible for all portfolio and product groups, driving central engineering, cloud and SaaS platforms, IT, security and compliance for HCLSoftware.

KK is a member of the Wall Street Journal CIO Network and the CNBC Technology Executive Council. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and part of the WEF Global Future Council 2020 and 2021 for Quantum Computing and the WEF 2021 CDO Community. He has co-authored eight books in the domains of business technology and service management. In 2021 and 2022, Technology Magazine named KK in their Global Top 100 Technology Leaders.

KK is a trustee of a London-based charity that drives the adoption of cricket in state schools and continues to engage with the community on holistic development with sports. He is an active member of eight County Cricket Clubs and select academies and is a life member of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

On a personal note, KK actively follows and plays cricket, squash and golf – and he follows football, rugby and F1. He is a musician and was the drummer and percussionist for the Delhi-based group, Contraband. He now occasionally plays in the local gig circuit in London.

Kevin McGee is responsible for the company’s risk oversight and corporate risk management strategy. He also steers the Risk and Compliance Apex Committee, which oversees the implementation and governance of risk management and compliance programs across HCLTech.

Prior to joining HCLTech in 2014, Kevin was the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Risk Officer at CIT Group Inc. Kevin has held senior risk and information security roles including, Chief Information Security Officer at Freddie Mac, Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman Sachs.

Dr. Nidhi Pundhir is responsible for shaping and executing programmatic frameworks aligned to sustainable development goals for the most disadvantaged and isolated communities.

With more than 25 years of experience in actualizing Human Rights at national and international levels, some of the key portfolios she has held were with SOS Children’s Villages as Director Programme Development, Asia and Plan International’s International Headquarters as Global Advisor on Child Protection in Development.

Nidhi holds a doctorate in Public Health Management from IIHMR University, Jaipur and M.Phil. in Health Systems Management from BITS, Pilani, India.

Rajiv Shesh is responsible for revenue growth across HCLTech’s Products and Platforms Business.

Prior to his current role, Rajiv was a business leader in HCLTech’s Engineering and R&D (ERS) business, responsible for HCLTech’s ERS Digital Engineering Practice and the fast-growing software and internet business segments. He led HCLTech’s Engineering business across several industry segments, including Aerospace, Medical Devices, Industrial, Automotive and Office Automation.

Throughout his 25 years at HCLTech, he has been responsible for developing the first gain share program in software, incubating HCLTech’s businesses in imaging and workflow, data analysis and state and local government. He has played a pivotal role in establishing HCLTech’s business in ASEAN.

Raghu R Lakshmanan is responsible for HCLTech’s global legal, ethics, regulatory affairs and compliance functions and policies.

He also heads the Ethics Committee for HCLTech and has played a key role in negotiating some of the major M&A and strategic contract pursuits HCLTech has done. Prior to his current role, he led the global compliance and litigation function and U.S. legal department.

As the Chief People Officer, Ramachandran Sundararajan leads HCLTech’s talent management agenda to support the company’s strategic objective of being the employer of choice globally.

Ram has three decades of HR management experience in IT Services business across the UK, India and U.S. Prior to his current role, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at HCLTech America and a member of HCLTech’s Corporate HR Leadership Council.

He has spent nearly two decades as European HR Director for HCLTech and other technology companies. During this time, he specialized in managing HR workstream in M&A and large-scale IT outsourcing engagements as well as Performance and Incentive designs for IT services sales organization across global geographies. Before moving to the UK, he held various HR management positions in India.

Ram is a Graduate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) UK. He holds a post graduate degree in Human Resources Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India and an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), India.

Santhosh Jayaram provides leadership to refining and focusing HCLTech’s existing agenda and strategy in the critical areas of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG).

He has been involved in the evolution of global standards and, more recently, a member of the ESG advisory committee for SEBI.

Before joining HCLTech, Santhosh was an advisory council member for KPMG Impact, a global program launched to integrate sustainability into all KPMG’s company activities. Some of the work he has done in the past are case studies with leading institutions like Harvard and INSEAD.

Sriram Hariharan is responsible for developing the business strategy with the management team and then enabling the organization to execute its strategic vision. As Head of Corporate Development, he also leads the company’s interactions with the global investment ecosystem to identify the right inorganic opportunities including acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic investments.

He has led numerous strategic initiatives in the Americas, sales transformation programs, business process transformation and key acquisitions and integration. In the early 2000s, he was part of the founding team that created the Remote Infrastructure Services business for HCLTech.

Prior to joining HCLTech, he spent ten years at BNY Mellon, leading strategic programs including integration of fintech acquisitions, business process offshoring and Registered Investment Advisors (RIA) consulting services. He was also part of the management team that established BNY Mellon’s SaaS subsidiary iNautix USA, now Albridge. He co-founded Myfriday Analytics, a cloud product startup that offered operational analytics solutions to global service providers.

Ajay Bahl is responsible for developing the vision, competencies and leadership through industry-leading solutions that bring the best of HCLTech’s transformative technologies and capabilities such as digital and analytics, IoT, cloud, robotics, AI, security and engineering domains, among others.

An HCLTech veteran, Ajay joined the company in 1998 as part of the HCL Senior Management Trainee program. Since then, he has held many positions, including working on the CEO's Strategic Leadership Team, mergers and acquisitions, product acquisitions and product management.

He is also part of HCLTech's Customer Advisory Board, where HCLTech’s major C-level customers and thought leaders provide recommendations on critical strategic issues and share best practices and insights into future trends, solutions and implementation approaches identified by HCLTech.

Anand Birje is responsible for driving the global growth of digital consulting, applications and platforms and data and analytics. Prior to his current role, Anand led HCLTech’s global corporate development, strategic partnerships and next-gen ITO and digital services. He serves on the governance team for HCLTech’s investment in the Morado Venture Fund, an early-stage investor in enterprise technology start-ups.

As a founding member of HCLTech’s Infrastructure Services Division in North America, Anand helped grow the business from $50 million to $2.5 billion within a decade.

Anand’s passion for technology and business is the driving force behind his work, including collaborations with the Columbia Business School and UC Irvine to develop industry-level strategies around digital execution, transformation and connected ecosystems. He is a regular attendee at the World Economic Forum in Davos and serves as a Strategy Officer with its Industry 4.0 and digital workforce groups.

Anil Ganjoo is responsible for driving next-generation growth into the Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Retail; Consumer Packaged Goods businesses and is focused on creating market momentum and leadership through innovative solutions and disruptive market development as well as building strategic world-class customer relationships and an industry-specific partner ecosystem.

Anil has been an early proponent and passionate champion of diversity in leadership and the empowerment agenda within HCLTech. He is also an early member of HCLTech’s “Talent Council,” dedicated to identifying, encouraging and mentoring young leaders.

His work has allowed him to contribute to HCLTech’s growth through various roles, responsibilities and geographies.

Anoop Tiwari is responsible for evangelizing and leading initiatives across go-to-market, solution development, client acquisition and service delivery that drives growth and differentiation.

Tiwari led the Enterprise Performance Office, a quasi-consulting and corporate development organization driving HCLTech’s growth, market competitiveness and financial and risk assurance. He incubated the digital, IoT and automation taskforces, which have grown into multi-billion-dollar businesses.

Anoop has also anchored the CIO function, laying the digital foundation, especially around HCLTech’s cloud adoption strategy and various CX and productivity initiatives. The large-scale internal digital adoption was achieved during his tenure.

Ashish Kumar Gupta is responsible for growing the business in Europe and Africa for diversified industries. Under his leadership, HCLTech has become one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe.

In 2019, Ashish was nominated to the board of TechUK and the World Economic Forum (WEF)—European Regional Business Council. In this role, he is focused on improving the collaboration between corporations and start-ups, boosting digital education and upskilling.

Ashish is widely respected as one of the more disruptive voices on topics such as direct-to-consumer, IT outsourcing, cloud and the need to create strategic partnerships with clients. He has spoken at many prestigious industry platforms and continues to drive thought leadership for HCLTech.

Jagadeshwar Gattu is responsible for spearheading strategy, offerings, growth and service delivery, constantly disrupting the status quo and evolving this business to be the foundation of the digital enterprise.

As Senior Corporate Vice President, he led Infrastructure Services Delivery across industry verticals in North America, delivering hyper-growth with best-in-class customer satisfaction. He was also instrumental in establishing Canada as a key growth geography.

Jags is passionate about sustainability, diversity, inclusion and team enablement. He and his teams have contributed tremendously to HCL Foundation initiatives and volunteering activities for the betterment of our communities. He is a strategic thinker with a pragmatic approach to strategy, execution and problem-solving. Prior to his tenure at HCLTech, he co-founded an Identity and Access Management firm, ILANTUS Technologies and implemented various enterprise management technologies with computer associates.

He is a founding member of HCLTech’s Infrastructure business, establishing HCLTech as a leading infrastructure services business. He currently resides in Dallas with his wife and two sons.

Maninder Singh is responsible for the Risk and Compliance (GRC) business for HCLTech and has held leadership roles including establishing HCLTech’s end-user computing practice, shared services, European GDC footprints and service delivery for EMEA and APAC.

He was a founding member of HCLTech's infrastructure services business, with responsibilities spanning business development, sales, product management, service delivery and program management. Since 2017, Maninder has also been a part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on cybersecurity and shoulders an active role with the Center for CyberSecurity and Cybersecurity Leadership Community.

Rajeev Nanda is responsible for Infrastructure Delivery for the EMEA and APAC regions. He leads a large, globally diverse team and is currently responsible for developing stronger relationships with HCLTech’s customers, creating a delivery organization focused on specialized requirements, including technology, regulatory and risk compliance, process centricity and DRYiCE Autonomics.

Since joining HCLTech in 1995, Rajeev has held diverse leadership roles, including the Head of India Networking Business, the Infra Global Delivery organization in the UK, the Head of Service Delivery for APAC and the Global Head of Infra Services for the financial services vertical.

Sanjay is currently leading HCLTech’s foray into new locations in India and is responsible for starting HCLTech operations in Lucknow and Nagpur. He also leads multiple strategic organizational initiatives such as the Employee Welfare Benefits Program and productivity enhancement initiatives. Sanjay joined HCLTech 24 years ago as a member of the core team responsible for Satellite Communication Shared Services across HCLTech.

Sanjay is a dynamic leader and Founder Partner of the Infrastructure division at HCLTech. He played an instrumental role in executing the country’s largest RAPDRP Project for the Uttar Pradesh government. His vast knowledge in the service delivery and customer support domains has garnered him many industry accolades. He received an award from Dataquest for successfully leading the Top 10 IT Projects in India. Under his leadership, Dataquest rated HCLTech as a top networking and remote infrastructure management leader in India.

Shrikanth Shetty manages the $1 billion LSH business and is responsible for driving business growth and customer engagements.

Shetty has held various leadership positions at HCLTech. He has played a pivotal role in establishing HCLTech’s market leadership position in the LSH vertical and the Infrastructure business and in forging some of HCLTech’s largest partnership agreements. He is a committed proponent of HCLTech’s corporate value around client relationships which encompasses demonstrating collaboration, transparency and flexibility in interactions with customers and working by the spirit of the client partnership.

Throughout his career, he has received various awards for outstanding contributions to the growth and success of the organization. He is an IIT Bombay Alumni.

Srimathi Shivashankar is responsible for EdTech Services, which provides talent transformational services through innovative learning and assessments, products and solutions. In her previous role, Srimathi was the Director of the New Vistas program and was responsible for strategizing and operationalizing new HCLTech delivery centers in global talent hubs. She was also the architect of the diversity and sustainability practices, HCL Foundation and HCL Grant.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, which has recognized her accomplishments through the Distinguished Alumna Award and an MBA in International Business Management from Ohio University. She won the WeQual Award in 2021 in the Business Transformation category and was named among the top 25 Women leaders in Consulting for 2022 by the Consulting report.

Srimathi has been a key speaker at various international forums such as the UN, WBCSD, World Investment Forum, WEF, NASSCOM and CII.

Srinivasan Seshadri leads HCLTech’s global Financial Services business across Banking, Capital Markets, and Insurance.

Srini, as he is popularly called, has been with HCL for almost 20 years and held key leadership positions in the financial services business across Asia, Europe, and North America. He has consistently invested in building deep, long-term relationships and forging partnerships with several large financial organizations that have led to highly successful outcomes with long-term sustainable benefits.

An alumunus of BITS, Pilani (India), Srini is an avid golfer and loves music.

Sukamal Banerjee is responsible for the strategy and execution of ISD and IoT WoRKS through to the P&L.

The ISD team builds high-growth products focused on industry-specific needs and opportunities. The team is currently focused on creating products for the Telecom and Manufacturing segments, leveraging the trends of 5G and Industry 4.0.

IoT WoRKS drives the adoption of digital transformation for asset value chains in asset-heavy industries, such as Manufacturing, Healthcare, Energy and Utilities, Transportation, and more.

Banerjee is a frequent speaker at industry and technology forums focusing on communications, digital businesses and IoT. He has also authored various articles on emerging technology trends for leading publications.

Swapan Johri holds the executive responsibility for the APAC region and the strategic partnership between CSC and HCLTech.

At HCLTech, he has held diverse account management, service delivery and strategic business initiatives portfolios.

Swapan joined HCLTech’s ISD Division to pioneer e-security services in India. He has since been an integral part of building HCLTech’s various global service lines with a personal focus on innovative and transformational IT services in several domains such as integrated technology operations, data center builds, consolidation and migrations and application modernization.

Vijay Guntur is responsible for helping several marquee customers and top R&D spenders across the Software and Internet, Medical, Manufacturing, Transportation, Telecom and Semiconductor industries accelerate their product and platform development and evolve their businesses for the digital era.

As the head of ERS, Vijay is capitalizing on the accelerated demand for digital engineering-led services such as platform engineering, cloud engineering, digital thread/twin, digital manufacturing, data engineering and AI, silicon platform solutions, and 5G services and solutions.

In his career at HCLTech, Vijay has held many roles, leading the hi-tech and communications business of HCLTech’s ERS business, where he drove innovation across solutions, sales and service delivery. Before this, Vijay had led the products and cloud platform engineering business across the Software and Internet, Telecom, Media and Entertainment, OEM, Retail and Manufacturing industry segments.

As COO – Corporate Functions, Rahul Singh is responsible for the People, Information Technology, Marketing, Risk & Compliance and Administration functions of HCLTech.

Rahul has been with HCLTech for over 12 years. Prior to his current role, he served as President - Financial Services and Digital Process Operations, under his leadership, the company has built a robust financial services portfolio and a DPO unit that manages large, multi-billion dollar engagements.

Rahul has over 35 years of experience in outsourcing, technology and financial services. He is widely recognized as an industry pioneer in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) segment in India and has been the recipient of the 2016 ‘Pioneer BPM Achiever’ award. Rahul started his career with Citibank and played a key role in launching new businesses. In 1998, he founded Citigroup Global Service (eServe International) and served as its first Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director.

Rahul exemplifies HCLTech’s commitment to being a partner to its clients with relationships that support client business growth. His zeal for building strong teams and his methodical approach to processes and implementation have set high benchmarks in the industry. He takes a keen interest in sustainability and renewability and promotes initiatives that further these goals.

Rahul is a mechanical engineer and an MBA (Finance) from Mumbai University, India. He has also completed a Senior Executive Program from the London Business School, UK.