Karan Puri
Consumer and Commercial Services, Americas
HCL
India
Biography
Karan is the Senior Corporate Vice President - Consumer and Commercial Services, Americas, at HCL Technologies. He is responsible for the strategy, execution and business results across applications management services, systems integration, digital design and process transformation. He has been leading businesses across major industries, such as Healthcare, Life Sciences, Telecom, Hi-tech & Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics, Hospitality, Media & Entertainment, Retail & CPG, and Oil, Gas & Utilities. Prior to HCL Technologies Karan's entrepreneurial flair helped found IT&T in 1990, starting up its subsidiaries, and taking it public in the year 2000. Under his leadership, IT&T was amongst India's top 250 wealth creators. In 2003, iGate Corp., a NASDAQ listed IT Services company, bought an arm of IT&T's business. Karan joined iGate as their EVP to manage and lead their global Infrastructure Services and BPO/Contact Center business. He has over two decades of international entrepreneurial and technology management experience. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Natural Sciences and a Postgraduate Degree in Management, specializing in both Marketing and Finance.
Research Interest
Business Administration
