Anant Gupta

Anant Gupta

Born	(1965-01-08) January 8, 1965 Delhi, India
Nationality	Indian
Citizenship	India
Alma mater	University of Bombay (B.Sc.) University of Liverpool (M.Sc.)
Occupation	President and CEO of HCL Technologies
Known for	Author of The Blackbook on the Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Industry - Demystifying the third 'wave' of Outsourcing
Website	Anant Gupta on LinkedIn

Anant Gupta is President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a US $6.0 billion global Information Technology services company.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Anant Gupta was born in Delhi on 8 January 1965. He schooled across the country including Don Bosco, Chennai, Bal Bharti Air Force School and Modern School in Delhi thanks to his father’s travelling job.

Anant obtained B.Sc. (Hons) Physics with Electronics from St. Xavier's College, University of Bombay in 1985 and M.Sc. (Engg) Microelectronics & Telecommunications, University of Liverpool, UK in 1987. He started his career as a Senior Design Engineer & Manager-R&D at India Telecomp Ltd where he set up the design group at the company.^[3]

Career at HCL

Anant began his career with HCL in 1993. Since then he has held a series of leadership positions in the company, most recently as President of HCL’s Infrastructure Services Division. In this role, he led the company’s brilliant foray into global markets through its pioneering Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Services and was responsible for its business results in all the global markets in which HCL operates. Having been a key architect of the RIM model, he led the Division to become a $1bn business for the company growing its contribution to HCL’s revenues from 10.2% in 2005 to almost 30% today.

Described as focused, passionate and futurist, Anant’s distinctive leadership style was profiled and commended in a business bestseller ‘Blueprint to a billion: 7 essentials to achieve exponential growth’ authored by renowned management guru David G. Thomson.^[4]^[5]

Industry contributions

Anant Gupta has written "The Blackbook on the Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Industry-- Demystifying the third 'wave' of Outsourcing".^[6] He is a founding member of NASSCOM's RIM Forum.^[7]

Anant has played a transformational role in the evolution of the IT Operations Management space, having pioneered three revolutionary delivery models - 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 MTaaS. He is also credited with leading the company’s incubation of a new approach to Application Management called ALT ASM and Digital System Integration for strategic application development.

Anant serves as a Trustee of the HCLT Foundation and is also the Executive Sponsor for the company’s Diversity and Sustainability programs.[ 2] His efforts towards empowering women employees at HCL recently won him the prestigious "2014 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Leadership Award – 7 Principles" from UN Women and UN Compact.^[8]

Anant has also been a Task Force member of the New Energy Architecture project run by the World Economic Forum.^[9]

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