Accelya Solutions India Limited announced the appointment of Saurav Adhikari as an Independent Director on the company’s Board, with effect from August 2, 2022.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “the Board of Directors has passed a resolution today i.e. on 2nd August, 2022 approving the appointment of Mr. Saurav Adhikari (DIN: 08402010) as an Additional Director in the category of Independent Director of the Company with effect from 2nd August, 2022 for a period of 5 years i.e. upto 1st August, 2027, subject to approval of the shareholders at the ensuing Annual General Meeting.”
Saurav Adhikari is a senior global business leader with ~ 3½ decades of deep domain expertise in global businesses/markets, across technology, FMCG, and consumer durables sectors. During the last two decades in the technology sector with HCL, he has held multiple leadership roles as the Founding President of HCL’s startup enterprise networking firm, led a team that established what has now become a multi-hundred million dollar IT enabled services (“ITES”) business, served as President of HCL’s ITES North American business, and as President of Corporate Strategy.
He has worked on several multi-billon dollar inorganic investments in technology and software, carveouts of multiple enterprise software product suites, joint ventures with global majors, all to transform and reinvent HCL’s business along with the leadership team. He was instrumental in strategizing HCL’s pivoting of its business model to a leading intellectual property led solutions company. In his technology role, he has built deep access into global private equity and VC firms, while creating large, successful, value-based partnerships between HCL and private equity owned technology businesses, which are considered groundbreaking in the industry.
At HCL, he held various executive positions, the last being President, Corporate Strategy, working directly with the Founder & Chairman with oversight across the group’s business, as well as the not-for-profit Shiv Nadar Foundation. During this time, he contributed to HCL’s immense growth from a ~$200mn revenue company in 2000 to a ~$11bn revenue and $45bn market cap today, transforming it into one of the world’s leading, and India’s 3rd largest IT / Technology / Software Product companies.
His prior experience also includes several senior global leadership and executive roles across Unilever, as Vice President at PepsiCo and Groupe SEB as CEO of Tefal India.
Saurav Adhikari is currently the chairman of Nasdaq listed Vahanna Tech Edge Acquisition I Corp (Special Purpose Acquisition Company – ticker VHNAU), a board member of Goodricke Group Ltd (publicly listed in India) and Bridgeweave Ltd, UK, an AI based Fintech. He works as a technology advisor and investor with interests across AI based fintech and healthcare firms, as well as analytics, IoT and logistics firms. He also serves as a Senior Advisor in the Shiv Nadar Foundation and is a Board Member of the Shiv Nadar University.
Saurav schooled at Mayo College, Ajmer, earned his MBA from Bombay University, B.A. (Honors) Economics from Delhi University, and an AMP from INSEAD, Fontainebleau.
Accelya Solutions India Limited provides technological products and services. The Company offers software for revenue accounting, billing management, analytics, and cargo solutions. Accelya Solutions India serves travel and transportation industry in India.
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