Digital Business Services

Anand is the President of Digital Business Services at HCLTech. In this role, he drives the practice’s overall growth and services strategy including global corporate development, strategic partnerships and next-generation services.

With over 20 years of industry experience across IT Applications, Infrastructure, and Cloud, Anand has driven major acquisitions and investments for HCLTech in the US and Europe. He has played a key role in shaping the company’s organic & inorganic strategies for ITO & Digital services.

Shyam is part of HCLTech’s Digital Business Services leadership team and is responsible for the Digital Applications & Platforms Practice, Data & Analytics Practice, Enterprise Packages – SAP, MSD Practice and Offerings Management and Pre-Sales functions. Since 2010, Shyam has progressively grown from being a Key Solution Architects to becoming one of the Global Leaders for HCLTech’s Digital Business Services. Shyam is extremely passionate about technology and can understand the best way to solve a business problem. Shyam has 20 years of industry experience across Enterprise Application Development, Integration, SOA, API & Web Services Security Product Development, Data & Analytics, and Cloud adoption. Shyam has a Masters of Science degree from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, and a Bachelors of Engineering degree from RVCE, Bangalore University, India. 

With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Ananth Subramanya leads the Global Solutions Team for Digital Business at HCLTech. Ananth was a founding member of the company’s Digital Platforms practice, and in his current role, he heads solution design and implementation for HCLTech’s digital programs globally. Having lived the life of a support engineer, development lead, test manager, product manager, pre-sales consultant and regional field sales director, Ananth brings a well-rounded perspective of the business. He has been instrumental in guiding enterprises in their digital journey to greatness with the right balance of vision and pragmatism. With his breadth of consulting experience, Ananth brings learning from a variety of industries that can add significant value to digital programs.

Lester Lam is the Executive Vice President and Global Leader of Consulting at HCLTech. In his role, he leads HCLTech’s digital consulting business spanning across the Americas, Europe, and APAC. With nearly 30 years in the business transformation and management consulting industries, Lester believes in helping global enterprises adopt the characteristics of digitally native companies to not just “do” digital but to become digital at the core. At HCLTech, Lester is leading the expansion of digital consulting core capabilities across business transformation, strategy and process consulting, experience strategy and design, organizational design and change, and agile transformation.

Sadagopan is the Executive Vice President for Digital Business Services, SaaS and Oracle. A dynamic and visionary leader known for building culturally diverse, high performance team centric units; Sadagopan has an impressive track record of building cutting edge practices, and instituting processes for dynamic growth environments. Over the years, he has led innovation efforts to create new practice areas, and successfully grown revenues and profits.

In his current leadership role, Sadagopan focuses on the niche skills in the area of customer relationship management, supply chain management, human capital management enabling new client experiences, creating new customer markets, & fragmenting markets to reshape existing value chains. He is also a regular contributor/speaker at premier industry, analyst and investor forums.

Ajay heads the Business Operations and Strategy function for HCLTech’s Digital Business Services practice. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic direction and day to day operational decisions for this business. He works closely across different functions to increase bookings, productivity and overall efficiency in meeting and exceeding corporate objectives for this business.

In his prior roles, Ajay was responsible for M&A for the ITO and Digital businesses in US and Europe, including actual business integration as well as driving organic growth for the company’s ITO business in the US.

Nick Sarkisian leads HCLTech’s digital global alliances function, where he is responsible for driving the digital partnership ecosystem strategy and engagement while overseeing solution development and marketing efforts with digital partners. With over 15 years of experience in the technology services industry, Nick is an expert in developing the strategy and solutions roadmaps that enable digital transformation journeys. Nick has spent the last 7 years with HCLTech serving in various roles including leading the go-to-market function for financial services in North America and developing digital services in the financial services domain.