Last year, Nayar stepped down as CEO and then as vice-chairman of HCL, India’s fourth-largest software services provider, to devote more to philanthropy through his Sampark Foundation even as he advises several companies on their strategies.

Vineet Nayar walks into his new office in a pair of blue jeans and a blue-and-white check shirt. It's a simple ground floor space in a building next to his home in Noida, east of Delhi, most unlike the swanky HCL Technologies office where he served as CEO until January. But Nayar isn't complaining.

New Delhi: Vineet Nayar, 51, is focusing on philanthropy after having stepped down as vice-chairman and joint managing director of HCL Technologies Ltd.

An Interview with Vineet Nayar, Vice Chairman and Joint Managing Director,  HCL Technologies Ltd.

EDITORS’ NOTE

Vineet Nayar is the vice chairman and joint managing director of HCL Technologies Ltd, a $4.3 billion (around Rs 23,220 crore) global IT services company. In 2005, Vineet became president of HCL Technologies and during the next five years he led a remarkable turnaround of the company, which saw its revenues and employee base triple. Excerpts from an interview: