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'''Vineet Nayar''' (born 1962) is an Indian business executive, author and philanthropist. He is the former [[Chief Executive Officer]] of [[HCL Technologies]] (2007–13), Founder Chairman & CEO of [[Sampark Foundation]] and author of critically acclaimed management book "Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down” (Harvard Business Press, June 2010).<ref name=110K>{{cite web|url=http://hbr.org/product/employees-first-customers-second-turning-conventio/an/12330-HBK-ENG|title=Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down|publisher=Harvard Business Review}}</ref> which has sold 100,000+ copies.

== Biography ==
Nayar was born and spent most of his childhood in [[Pantnagar]], a town in the foothill of Himalayas in the state of [[Uttarakhand]]. He completed his schooling from Campus School Pantnagar. He studied for a [[Bachelor of Technology|B. Tech]] in [[mechanical engineering]] from the College of Technology of [[G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology]] and a Masters in Business Management at the [[XLRI- Xavier School of Management]], [[Jamshedpur]] in India.<ref name=1K>{{cite web|url=http://hcltech.com/about-us/leadership/vineet|title=Vineet Nayar Profile|publisher=hcltech.com}}</ref>

Currently, Nayar serves as a Senior Advisor to HCL Corporation. He joined HCL in 1985 after earning his MBA from [[XLRI]]. In 1993, he founded Comnet, which grew into a $1 billion dominant leader in Technology Management business.{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} In 2005, Vineet became President of HCL Technologies and served as the company's CEO from 2007 until January 2013. During these years he helped it grow revenues and market cap by six times which led HCL to win awards for the ''WorldBlu certified Most Democratic Workplace in the world,'' ''Workforce Management Optimas Award for HR Innovation in US'', ''Britain's Top Employers'', ''Best Employer in Asia'', and many more.<ref name="1K" />

Nayar was chosen by Fortune Magazine for its first-ever global "Executive Dream Team" 2012, which has been described as an "all star leadership" that "could coalesce and dominate in any industry."{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} This is in addition to his inclusion in the elite "Thinkers 50 List‟ which is a list of the world's top 50 business thinkers.{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}

He has served as Governor of ICT, member of the Global Advisory Board of Women Leader's and Gender Parity Program as well as a Community Partner of the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum. Vineet has also served as a "Mentor‟ (Co-Chair) of WEF's 2011 Annual Meeting of New Champions conference.

== Work ==
Nayar narrated the story of his company's success in the book ''Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down'' (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010),<ref name=110K/> and also outlined the intellectual basis for transformation and lessons learned. The book has been praised by some of the world’s leading business leaders including the late [[C.K. Prahalad]], [[Tom Peters]], [[Gary Hamel]], [[Ram Charan]], and [[Victor Fung]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}

Nayar continues to share knowledge through two blogs—his own scrapbook<ref name=30K>{{cite web|url=http://vineetnayar.com|title=Vineet Nayar's Blog|publisher=vineetnayar.com}}</ref> and a blog at [[Harvard Business Review]] website.<ref name=40K>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/nayar/|title=Vineet Nayar's Harvard Business Blog|publisher=Harvard Business Review|access-date=7 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730172143/http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/nayar/|archive-date=30 July 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===Social change advocate===
In 2005, Vineet co-founded Sampark Foundation with his wife Anupama Nayar with “innovation-led large scale social change” as the central idea. Today, Sampark Foundation is transforming learning outcomes of 7 million children studying in 76,000 schools in Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh; making it one of the world’s largest primary school transformation initiatives by a Foundation.

For his social philanthropy, Vineet has been cited by Forbes Magazine in its “48 Heroes of Philanthropy List 2016” and by Fortune, for the pedagogical innovations, the Foundation has brought into classrooms. He has also been honored with the “Beacon of Hope” award by the 2009 Asha for education, NYC/NJ Chapter.

===Awards and honours===
* Included amongst Foreign Policy Magazine's Global Thinkers List, 2016
* Selected to the 'Thinkers 50 List', 2011/2012<ref name=60K>{{cite web|url=http://www.thinkers50.com/biographies/118|title=Vineet Nayar Thinkers50 Profile|publisher=Thinkers50}}</ref>
* Conferred with the 'Leader in the Digital Age' Award at CeBIT, 2011<ref name=70K>{{cite web|url=http://news.ciol.com/News/Newsmakers/News-Reports/HCL-CEO-Vineet-Nayar-wins-Digital-Age-Award/147335/0/|title=HCL CEO Vineet Nayar wins Digital Age Award|publisher=ciol.com}}</ref>
* Conferred with the 'Business HR Champion Award' at the European HCM Excellence Awards, 2011<ref name=80K>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-S0-9fyFz8|title=Vineet Nayar – Recipient of Business HR Champion – HCM Excellence Awards 2011|publisher=Youtube}}</ref>
* Selected in Fortune Magazine's 'Executive Dream Team' List, 2011<ref name=50K>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/news/companies/1109/gallery.dream_team_readers_picks.fortune/8.html|title=Fortune Dream Team|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
* Ranked No. 2 HR Influencer in India by SHRM India, 2011<ref name=90K>{{cite web|url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/shrm-india-releases-first-ever-reporttop-20-indian-hr-influencerssocial-media/467838/|title=SHRM India releases first ever report on top-20 Indian HR influencers on social media|publisher=Business Standard}}</ref>
* Adjudged as the 'CEO of the Year' in Bloomberg UTVi CXO Awards, 2011<ref name=100K>{{cite web|url=http://www.cxotoday.com/story/bloombergutv-concludes-the-cxo-awards-2011/|title=BloombergUTV Concludes The CXO AWARDS 2011|publisher=cxotoday.com}}</ref>
* Conferred the 'IIM Lucknow-Vijaypat Singhania Award for Leadership', 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jklakshmi.com/pdf/press-release_IIML-national-leadership-awards-nov-30-2012.pdf|title=Pranab Mukherjee confers the Lakshmipat Singhania - IIM Lucknow National Leadership awards|publisher=jklakshmi.com|access-date=3 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107133750/http://www.jklakshmi.com/pdf/press-release_IIML-national-leadership-awards-nov-30-2012.pdf|archive-date=7 January 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* Conferred with Manpower HEC Prize{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}
*Felicitated with France's prestigious Oliver Lecerf Prize{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}
* Cited among Forbes magazine '48 Heroes of Philanthropy 2013'<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoppisch/2013/05/29/48-heroes-of-philanthropy-2/|title=48 Heroes Of Philanthropy|publisher=www.forbes.com}}</ref>
* Forbes 48 Heroes of Philanthropy, 2016
* SHRM annual conference speaker, 2019

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.vineetnayar.com Vineet Nayar's Scrapbook]

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