Leadership Team
ANANT GUPTA
President, HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division
Anant Gupta is the President of HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division (HCLT ISD). A subsidiary of HCL Technologies Ltd (HCLT), HCLT ISD is a global IT Services provider of IT Operations and Transformation services. In addition to this, Anant is also HCLT’s Corporate Sponsor for the Public Services vertical which covers Government, Energy & Utilities and Travel Transport & Logistics sectors. He has also been mandated with leading and mentoring the company’s Ecosystem & Business Incubation group as well as strengthening HCL’s presence in Continental Europe.
Under Anant’s able leadership, HCLT ISD has earned a dominant market and thought leadership position in its chosen areas of operations, having been adjudged as No.1 in Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing Services by Datamonitor’s Blackbook of Outsourcing Survey and cited as a ‘Leader’ in this space by Forrester.
Over the years Anant has played a transformational role as a member of HCL’s core think-tank, having globally pioneered three revolutionary IT operations management models - Remote Infrastructure Management (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 MTaaSTM. Under his able leadership all these three models have been successfully delivered to Global 1000 corporations and have won many accolades for the company.
During his illustrious career Anant has also made unparalleled contributions to the RIM Industry at large. He has authored the world’s first ever book on RIM called ‘The Blackbook on RIM’, which has ever since earned much critical acclaim and emerged as a beacon of knowledge for this blue ocean Industry. Anant was also instrumental in sponsoring the NASSCOM-McKinsey report titled ‘Rising RIM Opportunity: Establishing India’s Leadership’, which explores the ground-breaking potential of this industry. He is also a founding member of NASSCOM’s RIM Forum.
Described as focused, passionate and futurist, Anant’s distinctive leadership style has led HCLT to be known as ‘torch-bearer’ of the RIM industry. His management style was profiled and commended in a business bestseller ‘Blueprint to a billion: 7 essentials to achieve exponential growth’ as part of a case-study on HCLT, authored by renowned management guru David G. Thomson.
