Meet Our Leaders

C Vijayakumar (CVK or Vijay) is the CEO & Managing Director of HCLTech, a $13.3 billion global technology company. Led by 227,000+ professionals working across 60 countries around the globe, HCLTech helps forward looking enterprises re-imagine their businesses through transformative technology solutions, services, and products.

As the company’s CEO & MD, Vijay has spearheaded HCLTech’s strategy to leverage disruptive forces like Digitalization, Cloud, Internet of Things, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence to create a growth blueprint which has made HCLTech one of the fastest growing companies in its chosen markets. He has also played a pivotal role in incubating and building a new products and platforms portfolio for the company, which is a billion-dollar business unit today.

Vijay’s personal leadership on this journey has been lauded across the industry with Business Today, rating him as the ‘Best CEO of the Year’ in IT/ITES Industry. He has also been included in the list of ‘Top 10 Disruptive CEOs’ by industry analyst group, HfS.

Vijay joined HCL nearly three decades back as a member of the core team that designed and implemented India’s first ever fully automated trading network at the National Stock Exchange. Previously, as President of HCLTech’s Infrastructure Services Business, he led its exponential growth and market dominance over the years. As part of the founding team of its wholly owned subsidiary HCL Comnet, he and the team are widely credited with having founded the Remote Infrastructure Management proposition which is today a multi-billion-dollar global industry.

Over the years, Vijay has held several technology, business and operational leadership positions at HCLTech and is widely recognized in the industry for his strategic thinking and impeccable execution. He is currently member of the World Economic Forum’s IT Governor’s Community, a Board Member of the US-India Business Council, a member of WSJ’s CEO Council and a UN Women HeForShe Champion.

Vijay is deeply invested in accelerating the company’s ESG agenda, efforts around which have resulted in HCLTech being recognized as an ESG leader in software and services industry in the MSCI ESG ratings and Sustainalytics’ 2023 Top-Rated ESG companies list. The company has also been designated an ‘Industry Mover’ in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2023.

Known for his hands-on approach, Vijay’s leadership style has been commended in the business bestseller ‘Blueprint to a billion: 7 essentials to achieve exponential growth’ by management guru David G. Thomson.

Vijay is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India and lives in New Jersey in the USA.

Rajiv is the Chief Revenue Officer for HCLSoftware and is responsible for revenue growth across HCLSoftware Business. He is also responsible for marketing, customer advocacy and professional services for HCLSoftware.

Over his 25 years at HCL he has been responsible for developing several transformational and business partnerships for HCL. Including the first gain share program in software, incubating HCL’s businesses in Imaging and Workflow, SAP, Data Analysis and State and Local Government. He has played a pivotal role in establishing HCL’s business in ASEAN and State and local Government.

Prior to this role Rajiv was leading Digital Engineering services for HCL’s Engineering and R&D business. Rajiv was additionally responsible for HCL’s fast growing Software and Internet business segment. He has managed HCL’s Engineering business several industry segments including Aerospace, Medical devices, Industrial, Automotive and Office Automation business.

Rajiv has worked closely with HCL Chairman’s office and CEO in innovating business models to develop large transformational business relationships for HCL.

Rajiv graduated in Electrical Engineering from a prestigious Institute in India. He currently lives in the Boston area in the USA.

Kalyan Kumar (KK) is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) for HCLSoftware.

As Chief Product Officer of HCLSoftware, KK leads product strategy, product specialists / technical advisors, professional services, product management, engineering and operations for the business.

Over the past two decades, KK has played various roles across solutions, business development, alliance management, practice and delivery across IT and digital services in HCL Technologies. Starting with Infrastructure Management Services in 2000, KK lead the entire Digital Foundation Practice for over five years driving peak growth. He has deep product management and product engineering leadership experience including the formation of the Intelligent Operation. AI Software Division which pioneered new ways to deliver outcome based AIOPS and Service Orchestration Products and Platforms as well as leading the world's first BSM SaaS Platform - MTaaS in 2008.

KK is a member of Wall Street Journal (WSJ) CIO Network and the CNBC Technology Executive Council. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the World Economic Forum Global Future Council 2020 and 2021 for Quantum Computing. KK was also named in the Top 100 Technology Leaders of 2021 in Technology Magazine. He serves on the board of two start-ups and a midsize technology company in the hybrid data / analytics domain, and has co-authored eight books spanning the domains of service management, XaaS, CloudNative and process re-engineering.

Outside of work, KK is deeply committed to creating social impact through sports. He is a Trustee of a London-based charity involved in engaging state school students in the game of cricket. He is also Vice Chairman of Tower Hamlets Cricket Club (THCC) and is a Patron of the Cricket Performance Group - CricFitSport. KK is a life member of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club (Lords) and has memberships in eight additional County Cricket Clubs in England.

KK lives in Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, with his wife and son. In his free time he loves watching and playing cricket, reading and playing music.