Atul Nishar

Atul Nishar is the Founder & Chairman of Hexaware Technologies Limited, a company that he set up in India in 1990. He is the driving force of Hexaware’s strategic direction and marketing focus. Under his leadership, Hexaware Technologies has grown into a multimillion dollar, global software and BPO services corporation, listed on Indian and London Stock Exchanges. An entrepreneur by nature, Atul Nishar had founded Aptech Limited in 1985, a computer training company which he grew into a leading global IT training outfit with over 2400 centers across 52 countries. He was the Chairman of Aptech till early 2003, when the promoters divested their stake in the company. The highly successful China joint venture was set up by Aptech under his headship. He is associated with several government and trade bodies which play an instrumental role in the development of India’s IT Sector. An active and known figure of the Indian IT industry, he was Chairman of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) in 2000 and continues to be on the Executive Council of NASSCOM. He is also a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Member of the Managing Committee and CoChairman of the IT Committee of Indian Merchants Chamber and was Regional President – Western India Council of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, 2007 – 2009. He is a Co-Founder of Infinity Technology Investments Pvt. Ltd. – a Venture Capital fund. He was Member of National Executive Committee (2000) of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and Chairman of the Information Technology Committee (2001-2002) and Member of the Steering Committee of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He has published several articles on Information Technology in leading Indian publications and has been a speaker at conferences organized by Harvard Business School, NASSCOM, TiE, World Congress on Information Technology, US Consulate, FICCI, and CII. Atul Nishar is a FCA (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) and received his Bachelor Degrees in Commerce and Law from University of Bombay.