ANNOUNCEMENT

Hexaware Positioned as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Custom Software Development Services

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Custom Software Development Services, By Jaideep Thyagarajan, Ryan McKinney, Nathan Davie, 7 October 2026. Gartner and Magic Quadrant are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Hexaware.

Lucia Soares

Director

Connect on LinkedIn

Lucia Soares is Managing Director and Chief Information Officer – Global Investment Resources at The Carlyle Group. Ms. Soares provides technology advisory to Carlyle investment teams and works with portfolio company executive teams leveraging technology to transform business operations and outcomes. She is based in Menlo Park, California.

Previously, Ms. Soares was Managing Director at Health2047 leading venture formations that addressed U.S. healthcare challenges. She spent 15 years at Johnson & Johnson, serving a variety of executive roles. As CIO and board member of multiple high-growth medical device businesses, she created technology strategies to grow and optimize businesses with the use of technology. Ms. Soares began her career working for an early internet professional services agency, USWeb / marchFIRST where she partnered with clients to build first-generation web solutions and built the west coast User Experience practice.

Ms. Soares completed her Executive Education coursework at Harvard Business School, and earned an MBA from San Jose State, a Master’s in literature from UC Santa Cruz, and a B.A. in foreign languages from San Jose State where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Connect on LinkedIn