Executive Profile

GH Rao (or “GH” as he is popularly known) is a corporate officer and heads the Engineering and R&D Services (ERS) business at HCL Technologies.  With the help of a large and diverse team, ERS provides services to leading product engineering companies globally across multiple industries such as Aerospace, Automotive, Medical devices, Consumer Hi-tech and Telecom.

An engineer by education, GH joined HCL as a R&D engineer in 1980. During this time, he was part of HCL’s R&D team that developed hardware subsystems for a range of micro/mini computers. He was also the chief architect of multi-processor systems that employed contemporary architectures for a range of high-end minicomputers launched by HCL during the late 1980s. In the early 90’s when HCL and Hewlett Packard formed a joint venture (HCL-HP), GH was responsible for leading technology adaptation and the engineering teams. He had several years of R&D experience and held positions like General Manager-R&D, at HCL.

During the formation of HCL Technologies in 1996, GH took over the responsibility of building business lines around core engineering services like system and VLSI design services. Since then he has added several services including embedded systems and also repositioned the ERS group to align with industry verticals. Over the years, GH has been responsible for transforming the ERS business to its current scale and expanding the size of its offerings through comprehensive engineering services spanning several   industry verticals. GH is a strong believer in focusing on infrastructure and has been instrumental in building test/compliance labs at HCL, a unique in Indian private Industry. GH is also advocates institutionalizing engineering processes and has spearheaded several domain specific process certifications in ERS.

GH holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering.