C Vijayakumar (CVK or Vijay) is the President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a US$ 9.7 billion global technology company. Led by 149,000+ professionals working across 45 countries across the globe, HCL helps forward looking enterprises re–imagine their businesses through transformative Technology Solutions and Services.
As the company’s CEO, Vijay has spearheaded HCL’s initiatives to leverage the transformative nexus of forces like Digitalization, Internet of Things, Cloud, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence through a strategic blueprint called ‘Mode 1-2-3’. His very recent efforts on adding products and platforms to the company’s portfolio have already resulted in a billion-dollar run-rate for the business, the fastest acceleration of its kind in the industry.
All these strategic bets plays have resulted in HCL, today, becoming the fastest growing large global technology company in the world for the fourth consecutive year. Vijay’s personal leadership on this journey has been lauded across the industry, most recently by leading analyst group HFS who included him in their list of ‘Top 10 Disruptive CEOs’.
Vijay joined HCL nearly 25 years back as a member of the core team that designed and implemented India’s first ever fully automated trading network at the National Stock Exchange. With a strategic vision and global outlook, he relentlessly reinvented himself to emerge as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and deftly navigate the shifting industry landscape.
Previously, as President of HCL’s Infrastructure Services Business, he led its exponential growth and market dominance over the years, leading up to a contribution of nearly 40% to HCL’s revenues today. As part of the founding team of its wholly owned subsidiary HCL Comnet, Vijay is widely credited with having founded the Remote Infrastructure Management proposition which is today a multi-billion-dollar global industry.
Over the years, Vijay has held several Technology, Business and Operational leadership positions at HCL and is widely recognized in the industry for his strategic thinking and impeccable execution. He is currently the Chairman of World Economic Forum’s IT Governor’s Community as well as a Board Member of the US-India Business Council.
Vijay is deeply invested in promoting sustainable business practices in the communities where HCL operates in, with an emphasis on advancing STEM learning for the youth and is also a passionate champion of the Diversity and Talent transformation agenda.
Known for his hands-on approach, Vijay’s leadership style has been commended in the business bestseller ‘Blueprint to a billion: 7 essentials to achieve exponential growth’ by management guru David G. Thomson.
Vijay is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India, and lives in New York in the USA.
HCL Technologies Limited is a global IT services company headquartered in Noida, India. It offers services including software consulting, enterprise transformation, remote infrastructure management, engineering and RD services, and business process outsourcing (BPO).
HCL has offices in 26 countries to provide services across industry verticals, including aerospace defense, energy utilities, independent software vendors, manufacturing, professional services, servers storage, automotive, financial services, industrial manufacturing, media entertainment, retail consumer, telecom, consumer electronics, government, life sciences healthcare, medical devices, semiconductors, and travel, transportation logistics.
