Hexaware’s Board of Directors has in its fold individuals who have rich experience and expertise in various industries. They take care of the interests of the shareholders and manage relevant activities.

Atul Nishar has rich experience in setting up and managing information technology companies and his expertise spans Strategic Planning, Information Management, Financial Resource Management, Product Development and Marketing. He is the driving force of the group’s strategic direction and marketing focus and under his leadership, Hexaware Technologies (which he founded in 1989), has grown into a multi-million dollar global software services and solutions corporation.

As an active and known figure of the Indian IT industry, Atul Nishar is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), and an Expert Member on the Information Technology Committee of Indian Merchants Chamber (2002-2003). He was the Chairman in Year 2000 of National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), the apex body of Software and Service Companies in India and continues to be on the Executive Council of Nasscom. He was a Member of the National Executive Committee (2000) of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Chairman of the Information Technology Committee and member of the Steering Committee of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and also a member of the Governing Board of National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) from 1999-2002.

He is a Co-Founder of Infinity Technology Investments Pvt. Ltd. – a leading Venture Capital Fund. He has published several articles on Information Technology in “Business India” and “The Economic Times”. He has been a speaker at several national and international forums including conference of NASSCOM, TiE, The World Congress on Information technology, Egypt’s International Economic Forum Annual Conference, US Consulate Mumbai, IIT Mumbai, FICCI and at the India Leadership Summit.

Atul Nishar received his Bachelors in Commerce and Degree in Law from Mumbai University and is also an FCA (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India)

P.R.Chandrasekar has a successful track record of driving revenue growth for a company including experience in mergers and acquisitions, business development, channel development and strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Hexaware, he was President Americas and Europe at Wipro and was responsible for the strategic development of these geographies. Chandrasekar joined Wipro in May 2000 from GE India where he was Director, Business Development. He has a degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) and has done his MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai University. Chandrasekar will be based out of Hexaware’s office in New Jersey.

Ramanan heads the global delivery organisation at Hexaware. All service lines and horizontals report into him.

Ramanan has been with Hexaware for over seven years now. He has been instrumental in establishing new service offerings and growing the Testing (QATS) and Business Intelligence & Analytics horizontal practices at Hexaware. He continues in his technical role as the Chief Software Architect to provide architecture solutions to customers. He has been actively involved in helping some of Hexaware’s large customers in re-shaping their IT eco-system and modernising them.

He has over 20 years of experience in managing large delivery operations across multiple geographies. He has extensive experience in providing technology solutions for various organisations in India, Europe and USA. In his last assignment before joining Hexaware, he was the Chief Architect for Citibank implementing Banking Software solutions in the European sector.

R V Ramanan holds a Post Graduate degree in Technology from I.I.T. Delhi.

Ashish is the founder of ChrysCapital, a private equity firm that manages $2.25 billion in assets. The firm has made 50 investments across a variety of sectors in India since 1999.

Ashish previously worked in the Risk Arbitrage Group at Goldman Sachs in New York. Prior to that, he also worked for the largest private equity fund in Brazil, GP Investments, and a mid-market US buyout fund, MDC Partners.

Ashish has an MBA with distinction from Harvard University and a dual bachelors degree (BS/BA) in applied mathematics and economics from Yale University.

In 2004, Ashish received the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award (Startup Category). He later received the Young Super performer Award from Business Today in 2005.

Mr. Sarma has been on the Hexaware board of directors since March, 2000. He has had a distinguished career in the banking and finance industry and has worked for Punjab National Bank, Reserve Bank of India and IDBI ( a premier financial institution) . IDBI was a pioneer in Project finance in India and Mr. Sarma was a member of various committees on Export Finance and Construction Contracts. He represented IDBI on the committee for setting up the Export Import Bank of India

Mr. Sarma also has had a long international career and carried out various assignments on Export finance in Africa and South East Asia. He is the co-author of the publication ‘Financing Exports in Developing Countries’ published by the International Trade Center, Geneva.

After his retirement from IDBI he has been a director and consultant for various Banks and Export bodies. Since April 1999 he has been a representative of Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority. From March 1990 to March 1999, he served as the Representative Consultant of the Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority.

Mr. Shailesh V. Haribhakti, a leading Chartered Accountant and a fellow member of the ICAI, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Financial Planner, Graduate Cost Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner. Mr. Haribhakti contributed to the shaping of India’s economic policy through his association as the President of Indian Merchants’ Chamber and as the Chairman of Corporate Governance Committee of ASSOCHAM. He was the chairman of WIRC of ICAI, President of BMA and President of IIA, Bombay. Presently, Mr. Shailesh V. Haribhakti is Director on the Board of several companies including Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL), ACC, Blue Star Ltd, Gujarat Ambuja Cement Eastern Limited and Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited.

Mr. S. Doreswamy, a fellow of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance and a post graduate in law has completed his graduation in Science.

He has over 35 years of productive and rewarding experience in commercial banking preceded by practice as an Advocate in the High Court for about 3 years after completing University graduation.

Mr. S. Doreswamy was Chairman and Managing Director of Central Bank of India, Mumbai, one of the largest public sector banks. This was an eventful tenure of about 4 years when he successfully steered the loss making bank towards greater growth and profitability signifying a marked turnaround in its operations. The bank, under his stewardship, became financially stronger and registered the highest level of profit in its history.

Prior to the above assignment, he was the Chairman and Managing Director of Dena Bank, a public sector bank, after having been its Executive Director. He held different administrative and operational assignments during his tenure with the bank.

He is also a director in many other companies viz. Caliber Point Business Solutions Limited, Ceat Limited, Pantaloon Retail India Limited, Shakti Sugars Limited, DSP Merill Lynch Trustee Co. Ltd and Rama Newsprint and Paper Limited. ,

Mr. Bharat Shah has joined Hexaware Board on 29th July, 2008.

Mr. Bharat D. Shah is the Chairman of HDFC Securities Limited. He has been one of the founder members of HDFC bank and joined HDFC Bank in December 1994 as an Executive Director on its Board. He is occupying the position of Head -Custody & Depository, Retail, HR, Private Banking, Infrastructure and Merchant Services in HDFC Bank Limited from December 1994 till date. He is on the Board of various companies like, Computer Age Management Services Private Limited, ADFC Limited, and Hill Properties Private Limited.

Mr. Shah with his rich knowledge & experience also acts as an Advisor for Yatra Art Fund, Vanita Vishram Trust, RBK International Academy and Foundation for Liberal & Management Education.

Mr. Shah has received his Bachelors in Science (B. Sc.) degree from the University of Mumbai in the year 1967. He also holds a Degree in Applied Chemistry with special reference to Metal Finishing from Borough Polytechnic, London. (1967-1969)

He started his career as a R&D Chemist in Pyrene Company Ltd.He worked there for a year (1969-1970). He worked for Bradma India Limited during 1971-1974 as Sales Executive & then worked at Technova for three years (1975-1978). He was Marketing Head of Travellers Checks and the Rupees Travellers Check Operation during 1979-1983 with Thomas Cook. He worked with Citibank as Payment Product Division Head & then Real Estate Division Head from 1983 to 1993. Mr. Shah was an Investment Advisor for Union Bank of Switzerland, Singapore for a Year i.e. 1993-94.

Belonging to one of the early batches of investment bankers in India, Mr. Mitra was instrumental in setting up the Merchant Banking Divisions of two banks – Bank of India and Standard Chartered Bank. He has also headed Corporate Banking and Investment Banking at American Express Bank. At a stage when asset management was in the early stage of development in the country, he set up the GIC Mutual Fund in India. He has also been active in several important Committees and Chambers in India.

In June 1994, when he joined the Aditya Birla Group as Director, Financial Services he was responsible for establishing the highly respected and successful financial services activities for the Group. Setting up and overseeing the highly successful stock broking company dealing in both equity and fixed income securities, managing the financial services businesses as CEO, being a member of Board, Executive Committee, Investment Committee, Audit Committee of each of the companies in financial services are some of the accolades he has credited to his name at the Aditya Birla Group. With effect from August 1, 2007 he has stepped down from active role for an advisory role. He has been associated with several reputed companies as an independent Director and Advisor.

Preeti Mehta is a Partner of Messrs Kanga & Co., a leading firm of Advocates and Solicitors in Bombay established in 1890. She qualified as a solicitor from both Bombay and England. Preeti has been practicing for over 17 years and has vast experience in matters relating to foreign collaborations, corporate laws and banking. As an offshoot of her main field of specialisation, Foreign Investment in India, Preeti has also covered the area of Franchising and has advised on setting up franchises in the Hotel and Restaurant, recreation, amusement and education sectors.

Abhay Havaldar is a Managing Director at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, where he has worked since 2002. Abhay established General Atlantic’s India office in 2002. He currently serves as a Director on the board of Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd., IBS Software Services (P) Ltd. and Infotech Enterprises Ltd.

Prior to this, Abhay started his career with TATA and has held operating management responsibilities at TATA Infotech and HCL Infosystems.

Abhay has been an investor in Indian businesses since 1996, as a partner at Draper International and Connect Capital. He is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and a Board member of Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE). He is a trustee of United Way of Mumbai.

Abhay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bombay and Masters in Management degree from the Sloan Fellow Program at the London Business School.