Awards and Recognitions
Lifetime Achievement Award to Shiv Nadar

Lifetime Achievement Award to Shiv Nadar, Chairman Emeritus and Strategic Advisor to the Board of HCLTech, at the 11th FICCI Higher Education Excellence Awards 2025. Roshni Nadar Malhotra received the award on his behalf.

Executive Recognitions

Chairperson, HCLTech conferred the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur France’s highest civilian award.

Roshni Nadar Malhotra

Chairperson, HCLTech

Recognized as the Business Leader of the Year by the Indo–American Chamber of Commerce (IACC)

Roshni Nadar Malhotra was also featured in:

  • Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2025
  • Fortune Most Powerful Women in Asia 2025
  • Business Today India’s Most Powerful Women in Business 2025
Chairperson, HCLTech conferred the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur France’s highest civilian award.

C Vijayakumar

CEO & Managing Director, HCLTech

Recognized among one of India's Best CEOs (IT Services — Large Cap) by Fortune India

C Vijayakumar was also recognized as:

  • CEO of the Year at the People Matters Infini-T Awards India 2025
  • Best CEO (ranked #1 in Sell-Side and #2 Overall) in Extel’s 2025 Executive Team rankings

Corporate Recognitions

  • Named to Fortune magazine’s 2026 World’s Most Admired Companies list, recognizing its consistent performance, technology-led innovation and commitment to long-term value creation for clients, employees and stakeholders.
  • Recognized by TIME magazine in two of its flagship global rankings: the World’s Best Companies 2025 and the World’s Most Sustainable Companies 2025. It is the highest-ranked India-headquartered technology company on the lists for the second consecutive year.
  • Named fastest-growing tech services brand among India’s top 10 most valuable brands by Kantar BrandZ 2025
  • Ranked 8th most valuable IT services brand globally by Brand Finance
  • Among Asia’s Most Honored in Extel’s 2025 Executive Team rankings, including Best CEO, Best CFO and Best IR Team awards. Achieved 17 Top 3 rankings (across Overall, Buy-Side and Sell-Side categories) in the Technology IT Services and Software sector, out of which 9 were #1 rankings.

Employer Recognitions

  • Featured in Forbes lists of
    • World’s Best Employers for the sixth year in a row
    • America’s Best Employers for New Grads 2025 for the second consecutive year
    • Canada’s Best Employers 2026, ranking among the top 15 global IT software and services companies
  • Winner in the category of Leading Practices in Employee Engagement at the PeopleFirst HR Excellence Awards — for the second year in a row
  • Won 4 Golds, 3 Silvers and 1 Bronze at Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards, 2025
  • Supercharged Ambassadors, HCLTech’s global employee advocacy program, recognized as the best marketing program in the user-generated content category at the Financial Express Brandwagon Ace Awards 2025
  • Recognized as an “Exemplar of Inclusion” in the Most Inclusive Companies Index 2025 by Avtar & Seramount

Business Recognitions

  • ISG Star of Excellence Award for Universal BPO for the second year in a row
  • Winner (ANZ) for Exceptional Digital Sustainability Strategies and Initiatives at the 2025 ISG Paragon Awards
  • Jury’s Choice Award for Excellence in Data Center Transformation and Modernization at the Express Computer Powering the Future Awards 2025
  • Innovation Award at the 2025 Ericsson Supplier Awards
  • 2025 Product of the Year award at the NAB Show
  • 2025 Supplier Excellence Award by Caterpillar Inc.
  • FSTech Awards 2026 in two categories:
    • Digital Transformation Project of the Year – Enterprise (with NatWest)
    • Risk Management Solution of the Year (with Deutsche Bank)
2025 ISG Paragon Award for North America in recognition of HCLTech and PepsiCo’s decade-long partnership

2025 ISG Paragon Award for North America in recognition of HCLTech and PepsiCo’s decade-long partnership

ESG Recognitions

  • Ranked among the top 15 in Professional Services in the World’s Most Sustainable Companies 2025 list by TIME magazine
  • EcoVadis Gold rating for the second consecutive year, at 96th percentile
  • Ranked No. 2 in the Perpetual Capital–Hurun India Impact 50 2026 list for creating sustainability impact from business operations
  • Included in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook for the fourth year in a row
  • MSCI AA (Leader) ESG rating for strong ethics and human capital practices for two years in a row
  • Ranked 6th out of 209 ‘IT consulting’ companies in ESG risk rating by Sustainalytics
  • Zero Waste to Landfill Platinum certification for 100% campuses, with the highest level of waste diverted at 99%
  • Two recognitions at the first CII–SR Industrial Climate Action Competition:
    • Employee and Community Engagement in Climate Action
    • Carbon Reduction/Net Zero Initiatives
  • HCLFoundation received
    • “Institutional Honor – Foundational Contribution to Nation-Building” from Times Foundation at the TOI National CSR Summit 2026
    • Best Water Conservation Award from the Government of Tamil Nadu
    • Excellence in Water Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation Award at ASSOCHAM CSR & Sustainability Awards 2025
    • “Best CSR Film for Artisan Empowerment” for the short film “An Ode to Indian Artisans” at the 3rd Socio CSR Film Award
2025 ISG Paragon Award for North America in recognition of HCLTech and PepsiCo’s decade-long partnership

Recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere for the third consecutive year

Ecosystem Partner Recognitions

Analyst Recognitions

  • 390+ leadership recognitions across technology capabilities and Industries
  • Only service provider to be recognized as a Customers’ Choice in all four Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer (VoC) reports across IT services markets in FY26
  • Secured six CX Star Performer Awards at the ISG Star of Excellence™ in FY26, the highest among all participants
  • Rated as a CX Star Performer in ISG Star of Excellence™ for GenAI, achieving the highest CX score of 95, significantly surpassing the industry average of 81.9.
  • Positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Security Service Edge and SASE services 2025 vendor assessments
  • HCLSoftware is the only software vendor globally with three Magic Quadrant leadership positions in Gartner’s IOCS markets segment across three different products
HCLTech positioned as a Leader in
AI Recognitions
  • The Forrester Wave™: AI Technical Services, Q4 2025
  • IDC MarketScape: Canadian AI Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc# CA51802124, Sep 2025)
  • Everest Group’s Application Development Services for AI Applications PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025
  • Avasant’s Generative AI Services 2025 RadarView™
Digital Business Services
  • Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services (Tobi Bet et al., August 4, 2025)*
  • Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Custom Software Development Services (Jaideep Thyagarajan et al., Dec 1, 2025)*
  • IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience Build Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc# US52973125, Oct 2025)
  • IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Manufacturing Intelligence Transformation Strategic Consulting 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc# US52988325, Nov 2025)
Digital Foundation Services
  • Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing Services (Biswajit Maity et al., Nov 3, 2025)*
  • Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Outsourced Digital Workplace Services (Karl Rosander et al., Nov 10, 2025)*
  • Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Service Integration and Management Services (Andrea Lanzavecchia et al., Oct 29, 2025)*
  • IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Security Service Edge Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc# US52992425, Sep 2025)
Business Process Operations
  • Everest Group’s Financial Crime and Compliance (FCC) Operations Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025
  • Everest Group’s Capital Markets Operations Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025
  • Everest Group’s Banking Operations – Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025
  • Everest Group’s Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026
Engineering and R&D Services
  • IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Industrial IoT End-to End Engineering and Life-Cycle Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc # US51812924, Jun 2025)
  • IDC MarketScape: Worldwide IT and Engineering Services for Software-Defined Vehicles 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc# US51813124, Sep 2025)
  • Everest Group’s Software Product Engineering Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026 – Global, EMEA
  • Everest Group’s Software-defined Vehicle (SDV) Engineering Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025
HCLSoftware positioned as
  • A Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools (Tom Cipolla et al., Jan 5, 2026)*
  • A Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (Hassan Ennaciri et al., Aug 26, 2025)
  • A Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing (Jason Gross et al., Oct 6, 2025)*
  • A Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Voice of the Customer for Application Security Testing (Peer Community Contributor, Mar 31 2026)
  • A Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Unified Endpoint Management Software 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US53003125, December 2025)
  • Value Leader in 2025 EMA™ Radar for Workload Automation and Orchestration. Additionally, awarded for “Excellence in Broadest Orchestration Vision and Strategy” in this report.
  • A Leader in Low-code Application Development Platforms PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 by Everest Group

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