Vineet Nayar

Vineet Nayar, a “people’s magician” is considered one of the world’s foremost voices on human potential management, workplace transformation and high speed business growth. He is an accomplished business leader, author of the critically acclaimed bestseller book ‘Employees First, Customer Second’, founder of Sampark Foundation, which has imparted education to 7 million children in rural India, an avid mentor to start-ups, and the former CEO of HCL Technologies Ltd, which is one of the largest and fastest growing IT services business companies in India.

Vineet’s ground-breaking “Employees First, Customers Second (EFCS)” philosophy which puts ‘humans’ at the centre of businesses, became a phenomenon in the business world. He implemented the EFCS philosophy at HCL Technologies for a successful turnaround. Fortune magazine has described the company as having the “world’s most modern management”. Innovative management practices at HCL Technologies are taught as case studies at both the Harvard Business School as well as London Business School.

Vineet has been chosen by Fortune magazine for its first-ever global Executive Dream Team and featured on the elite Thinkers 50 list, a global community of business leaders. He was also selected as a ‘Global Thinker 2016’ by Foreign Policy magazine for ‘unplugging technology so kids can learn’.

Sampark Foundation, the organization he co-founded with his wife Anupama, is transforming learning outcomes for 7 million children at less than $1 per child per annum. The scale and impact of this transformation is now a case study at Harvard Business School.