Vineet Nayar

Former CEO, HCL Technologies | Founder, Sampark Foundation | Author, Sampark Foundation

Innovation, AI/ML & Technology | Leadership, Technology, Entrepreneurship

Vineet Nayar

Biography

Vineet Nayar is the former CEO of HCL Technologies and Founder of the Sampark Foundation. He is also the author of the acclaimed book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down.

A globally recognized management thinker, he led HCL’s transformation from a $0.7B company in 2005 to a $4.7B global enterprise by 2013, with over 85,000 employees across 32 countries. His “Employees First” philosophy reshaped organizational leadership, earning HCL recognition from Fortune as “the world’s most modern management” and from BusinessWeek as “one of the world’s most influential companies.”

He has been featured in Fortune’s “Executive Dream Team” (2012) and the Thinkers50 list. Through the Sampark Foundation, he drives large-scale innovation in education and was named in Forbes’ “48 Heroes of Philanthropy” (2016).

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