Biswanath Bhattacharya appointed Chief Executive of HCL Services

NEW DELHI: HCL Services, a unit of HCL Infosystems Ltd, said on Monday it has appointed Biswanath Bhattacharya as its chief executive, and also announced two new appointments.

Bhattacharya joins HCL Services from Hewlett-Packard Co India, where he was the vice president and general manager for technology services, and has over 25 years of industry experience. “His rich experience in leading organizations across IT sales and services functions, including 15 years of experience in strategic leadership positions would be a big catalyst in the journey of HCL Services,” said S. Premkumar, executive vice chairman, HCL Infosystems Ltd.

HCL Infosystems also said Ravi Venkatraman was appointed chief sales officer for the enterprise services business, and Madhavan P would take over as chief of channel services business.

Prior to joining HCL, Venkatraman has worked with Xerox, Reliance Communications and Kodak Services. Madhavan headed sales and enterprise business at Tata Teleservices before joining HCL, and has also worked at Virgin Mobile.