HCL Technologies CEO, Vineet Nayar, Conferred With the 'Leader in the Digital Age' Award at CeBIT 2011

HANNOVER, Germany, NOIDA, India, and LONDON, March 3, 2011
(ots/PRNewswire) -- HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), one of the leading
global IT services providers, today announced that its Vice Chairman
and CEO, Vineet Nayar, has been conferred with the prestigious
'Leader in the Digital Age Award' (LIDA) at the CeBIT 2011 show in
Hannover, Germany.

The LIDA Award honours outstanding Enterprise 2.0 leaders and
will be conferred for the first time at this world's largest trade
fair showcasing ICT. The award recognises Nayar for pioneering 'the
revolutionary corporate philosophy of Employees First, Customers
Second, which acknowledges employees as the most important capital a
company has.' The result of Nayar's vision is to bring together the
three pillars of the Enterprise 2.0 management strategy:
transparency, openness and networking.

HCL's Employees First, Customers Second (EFCS) philosophy is
centred on the belief that organisational focus and structures should
be inverted to focus on the 'value zone' - the place where frontline
employees interact with customers and create real value for them.

Under Vineet Nayar's leadership and fuelled by the EFCS
philosophy HCL Technologies had embarked on a transformation journey
in 2005 during which the company's revenues increased by over 3.6
times, net income rose by 91 per cent, and Market Cap doubled. Its
most testing validation however happened during the 2008-09 economic
recession when HCL Technologies became the fastest growing IT
Services company in the world. This path-breaking success of the
company has been captured as a case study, which is currently being
taught at the Harvard Business School.

Nayar recently took centre stage globally through the release of
his book 'Employees First, Customers Second - turning conventional
management wisdom upside down' which has been ranked No. 7 on Amazon
UK's listing of 'Best Business Books of 2010' and also been rated
amongst the 'Best Business Books of 2010' by the Library Journal of
America. This Harvard Business Press bestseller has been welcomed
with rave reviews across the globe by business leaders and scholars
alike.

Mr Jorg Bode, Minister for Economy of the German county Lower
Saxony and member of the judging committee said, "In the time of
networking and Web 2.0 it is clear that networking and transparency
are becoming critical issues for Top managers. As a visionary leader
of HCL Technologies the CEO Vineet Nayar was able to use new
technologies with an extremely positive effect for his company. This
is why we awarded him with this prize."

"It is truly wonderful to be recognised and rewarded with this
top industry citation. I would like to thank the jury for the
privilege of being the first leader in the world to receive this
honour," said Vineet Nayar, Vice Chairman and CEO, HCL Technologies.
"The Digital age is powered by human knowledge and HCL's Employees
First, Customers Second philosophy is a testament of this basic
truth. We believe that organizations need to put humans back into
business by unleashing their potential and passion towards value
creation and innovation."

Through his blog (http://www.vineetnayar.com/) and other
dialogues Nayar outlines his hope to take the principles of EFCS to
the next generation in pursuit of 'new leaders' beyond the
traditional corporate hierarchies.

The award will be presented at a ceremony during the CeBIT 2011
conference in Hannover, Germany on 2 March 2011.

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working
with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their
businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its
IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing',
underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated
portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote
infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL
leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of
offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery
in key industry verticals including Financial Services,
Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL
takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our
72,267 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL
Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues
of US$ 3.1 billion (Rs. 14,101 crores), as on 31st December 2010 (on
LTM basis). For more information, please visit http://www.hcltech.com

About HCL

HCL is a $5.5 billion leading global technology and IT enterprise
comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and HCL
Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT
garage start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global
transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes
product engineering, custom & package applications, BPO, IT
infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and
distribution of information and communications technology (ICT)
products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL
team consists of over 77,000 professionals of diverse nationalities,
who operate from 29 countries including over 500 points of presence
in India. HCL has partnerships with several leading Global 1000
firms, including leading IT and technology firms. For more
information, please visit http://www.hcl.com.

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HCL Technologies
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HCL Technologies, Europe
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MOB: +44(0)7921-699137
LEWIS PR
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hcl@lewispr.com

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