HCL Technologies, has formally announced the appointment of Anant Gupta as the company’s new CEO and President. He would be taking over the CEO’s role from Vineet Nayar, who would continue in the role of Vice Chairman.
Earlier, in July 2012, Anant had been appointed as President & COO.
A brief profile of Anant Gupta: Anant, an MSc. Engineering from University of Liverpool. He joined HCL as part of the start-up team at Comnet and has been with HCL for 19 years. He has been instrumental in scaling HCL’s Infrastructure Services Division to a $1 Billion business. More recently, he has led the company’s presence in the Continental Europe region to a leading market share position and overseen industrialization of Applications service delivery.
Anant has authored the world’s first ever book on Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) called ‘The Blackbook on RIM’and is a founding member of NASSCOM’s, RIM Forum. He is also is a Task Force member of the New Energy Architecture project run by the World Economic Forum.