Background
Nayar was born and spent most of his childhood in Pantnagar, a town in the foothill of Himalayas in state of Uttarakhand.
Nayar was born and spent most of his childhood in Pantnagar, a town in the foothill of Himalayas in state of Uttarakhand.
He completed his schooling from Campus School Pantnagar. He studied for a B.Tech in mechanical engineering from College of Technology of G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology and a Masters in Business Management at the XLRIXavier School of Management, Jamshedpur in India. He joined HCL in 1985 after earning his Master of Business Administration from XLRI.
Currently Nayar serves as a Senior Advisor to HCL Corporation. In 1993, he founded Comnet, which grew into a $1 billion dominant leader in Technology Management business. In 2005, Vineet became President of HCL Technologies and served as the company"s Chief Executive Officer from 2007 until January 2013.
During these years he helped it grow revenues and market cap by six times and awards for the Most Democratic workplace in the world, force Management Optimas Award for Human Resources Innovation in United States, Britain"s Top Employers, Best Employer in Asia, and many more.
Nayar was also recently chosen by Fortune Magazine for its first ever global "Executive Dream Team" 2012, which has been described as an "all star leadership" that "could coalesce and dominate in any industry." This is in addition to his inclusion in the elite "Thinkers 50 List‟ which is a list of the world"s top 50 business thinkers. Vineet has also recently served as a "Mentor‟ (Company-Chair) of WEF"s 2011 Annual Meeting of New Champions conference.
Selected to the "Thinkers 50 List", 2011/2012 Conferred with the "Leader in the Digital Age" Award at CeBIT, 2011 Conferred with the "Business Human Resources Champion Award" at the European HCM Excellence Awards, 2011 Selected in Fortune Magazine"s "Executive Dream Team" List, 2011 Ranked Number. 2 Human Resources Influencer in India by Society for Human Resource Management India, 2011 Adjudged as the "Chief Executive Officer of the Year" in Bloomberg UTVi CXO Awards, 2011 Conferred the "Indian Institutes of Management Lucknow-Vijaypat Singhania Award for Leadership", 2012 Conferred with Manpower Higher Education Commission Prize Felicitated with France"s prestigious Oliver Lecerf Prize Cited among Fortune magazine "48 Heroes of Philanthropy 2013".
He has served as Governor of Information and communications technology , member of the Global Advisory Board of Women Leader"s and Gender Parity Program as well as a Community Partner of the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum.
