C Vijayakumar (CVK or Vijay) is the

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& Managing Director of

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, a US$ 12.1 billion global technology company. He was appointed the company’s CEO in October, 2016 and its Managing Director in July 2021

Life and education

Vijay was born in Coimbatore in

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and did his schooling from ‘ The Lawrence School’ in Lovedale, Ooty. He is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India and currently resides in

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in the USA.

Career

C Vijayakumar joined

in 1994 in the founding

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team of Comnet as a senior technical engineer. He was appointed the company's

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in July 2016 and in October that same year was promoted to be the CEO, succeeding

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. Prior to becoming COO of the company, CVK was the President of HCL's Infrastructure Services business.

Awards and recognitions

Vijay’s personal leadership on this journey has been lauded across the industry with leading business magazine
Business Today, rating him as the ‘''Best CEO of the Year, 2020’'' in IT/ITES Industry
Previously he has been included in the list of ''�
Top 10 Disruptive CEOs’

by industry analyst group, HfS
Known for his hands-on approach, Vijay’s leadership style has been commended in the business bestselle
‘Blueprint to a billion: 7 essentials to achieve exponential growth’
by management guru David G. Thomson.

References

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Life and education

Career

Awards and recognitions

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