HCLTech elevates Sandeep Saxena as Chief Growth Officer for India, MEA

HCLTech has elevated long-serving executive Sandeep Saxena as Chief Growth Officer – Growth Markets 2, tasking him with driving expansion across India and other key regions, including the Middle East and Africa.

The appointment comes as India’s third-largest IT services firm sharpens its focus on high-growth markets, with India positioned as a central pillar of its next phase of expansion. Saxena will be based in Mumbai and report directly to Chief Executive and Managing Director C Vijayakumar.

Announcing the move, Vijayakumar said the company sees India as a strategic growth engine as enterprises accelerate adoption of next-generation technologies. He added that HCLTech intends to deploy its global scale and full-stack capabilities to support both private and public sector digital transformation, while aligning with national priorities such as Digital India and the government’s broader Viksit Bharat vision.

Saxena, who joined HCLTech in 1998, is among the firm’s longest-serving leaders and has held senior roles across multiple geographies. Over the past two decades, he has been closely associated with the expansion of HCLTech’s European business, where he played a key role during a period of rapid growth, the company said in its statement.

Most recently, Saxena led the Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Travel, Transportation and Logistics, and Energy and Natural Resources segments in Europe. He also oversaw all non-financial services verticals across France, Italy and the Iberian region, where he was credited with securing large client wins and deepening the company’s market presence.

In his first comments following the announcement, Saxena said his priority would be to deepen client relevance in strategic markets by delivering “future-ready” solutions with measurable business outcomes.

The elevation underscores HCLTech’s broader effort to rebalance leadership attention towards emerging and high-potential markets at a time when global technology spending remains uneven. With India continuing to outpace many developed economies in growth, the company appears to be positioning senior leadership closer to key demand centres.

HCLTech reported consolidated revenues of $14.5 billion for the 12 months ended December 2025 and employs more than 226,000 people across 60 countries, according to company disclosures. The firm has increasingly highlighted growth opportunities in AI-led services, engineering, cloud and digital transformation as it looks to sustain momentum in a competitive global IT services landscape.