Vineet Nayar

(CEO-HCL Technologies)

Vineet Nayar was born in 1962.

Education-:
Nayar received his engineering bachelor's degree from G.B. Pant University in 1983. Nayar received his business management degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur in 1985 and joined HCL as Senior Management Trainee (SMT) from campus.

Early career-:

Vineet started his journey with HCL in 1985 after completing his engineering and management degree. After spending seven years of his career as engineer, product manager, sales & marketing head at HCL, Vineet founded HCL Comnet in 1994 . [1]

It was one of HCL’s most innovative and successful businesses to provide IT infrastructure and networking services.

He became the President in April 2005 and later CEO in October 2007 of HCL Technologies. Under his leadership, HCL Technologies has made it to the fastest growing “Business Week Top 100 Tech companies” (2007). IDC recognizes Vineet as having “the most cohesive and articulate vision” in the IT services sector.

Fortune Magazine has articulated his leadership style as “The World’s Most Modern Management” and the London Business School calls him “the leader of organizational Innovation”.


"American graduates are unemployable"

In June 2009, Vineet Nayar created quite an uproar by commenting that American tech graduates are unemployable. He made this comment while talking to some technology enthusiasts and officials in New York city. When an official wanted to know why HCL, a $2.5 billion (revenue) company with more than 3,000 people across 21 offices in 15 states, wasn't hiring more people in his state, Vineet Nayar's short answer was: because most American college grads are "unemployable." Mr. Nayar's comment was met with some angry remarks in newspapers[2] and blogs.[3] Mr Nayar clarified his stand on the remarks in his blog[4]