Anant Gupta

Anant Gupta is President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a US$5.5 billion global information technology services company.

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.>

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