Mr. Anant Gupta 

President & Chief Executive Officer ( CEO)

Anant Gupta is President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCLT), a USD6.0 billion global information technology services company.

Anant began his career with HCL in 1993. Since then he has held a series of leadership positions in the company, most recently as President of HCL's Infrastructure Services Division. In this role, he led the company's brilliant foray into global markets through its pioneering Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Services and was responsible for its business results in all the global markets in which HCL operates. Having been a key architect of the RIM model, he led the Division to become a $1bn business for the company growing its contribution to HCL's revenues from 10.2% in 2005 to almost 30% today.

Anant has also significantly contributed to the knowledge of the RIM Industry by authoring the world's first book on the industry which earned much critical acclaim and emerged as a beacon of knowledge for this new space. In recognition of his immense contribution to the industry, India's premier IT Consortium, NASSCOM, appointed him as the Founding Chairman of its RIM Forum.

Anant has played a transformational role in the evolution of the IT Operations Management space, having pioneered three revolutionary delivery models - RIM as an alternate to the prevalent Total Outsourcing model, Business Ready Infrastructure (BRI) Service as a smart sourcing alternate for Utility Computing and the world's first hosted pay-by-use Enterprise Systems Management Framework called MTaaS™. He is also credited with leading the company's incubation of a new approach to Application Management called ALT ASM™ and Digital System Integration for strategic application development. Under his able leadership these models and services are not only expanding addressable blue ocean markets for HCL, but also successfully delivering a differentiated value proposition to Global 1000 corporations.

Anant serves as a Trustee of the HCLT Foundation and is also the Executive Sponsor for the company's Sustainability & Diversity programs. His efforts towards empowering women employees at HCL recently won him the prestigious 2014 Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Leadership Award – 7 Principles from UN Women and UN Compact.

Anant has also been a Task Force member of the New Energy Architecture project run by the World Economic Forum and contributed significantly to global research literature on next generation IT services.

Described as focused, passionate and futurist, Anant's distinctive leadership style was profiled and commended in a business bestseller 'Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth' authored by renowned management guru David G. Thomson.

Anant has studied BSc in Physics and MSc. Engineering from University of Liverpool. He is an avid Billiards enthusiast and in his free time also likes to blog on emerging paradigms in the IT Services Industry. He is married with two children.