C Vijayakumar
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C Vijayakumar

Indian business executive (born 1967)

C Vijayakumar is an Indian business executive who is the CEO and Managing Director of multinational technology company HCLTech. He was appointed the company’s CEO in October 2016 and its Managing Director in July 2021.2

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Born Oct 13, 1967.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedPSG College of Technology Bachelor of Engineering3 4
  • Date not recordedLawrence School, Lovedale3

Vijayakumar was born in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India and did his schooling from ‘The Lawrence School’ in Lovedale, Ooty and Thambu Higher Secondary School, Government Press Colony, Coimbatore. He is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India and currently resides in New Jersey in the USA.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.6

C Vijayakumar joined HCLTech in 1994 in the founding startup team of Comnet as a senior technical engineer. He was appointed the company's chief operating officer in July 2016 and in October that same year was promoted to be the CEO, succeeding Anant Gupta.

Prior to becoming COO of the company, he was the President of HCL's infrastructure services business.

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Personal life

  • BornOct 13, 1967, Tamil Nadu4 7
  • CitizenshipIndia, United States8
  • ResidenceNew York City9