Noida, India | July 2026
HCLTech has promoted Chandini Kamal to Vice President, Global Head – People & Culture, placing her in charge of the technology major’s global people agenda at a time when the company is doubling down on culture, engagement, and talent strategy as competitive differentiators.
In her new role, Kamal will steer HCLTech’s global People & Culture function end to end – spanning employee engagement and experience, wellness, rewards and recognition, and diversity and inclusion. The elevation builds directly on her prior mandate as Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, People & Culture, where she already owned engagement, wellness, and R&R across the company’s markets.
A Career Built Entirely Inside HCLTech
What makes Kamal’s rise notable is that it has unfolded almost entirely within one organization. With more than 15 years at HCLTech, she has moved through a steady sequence of progressively senior global HR roles rather than a single lateral jump – the kind of trajectory that tends to produce leaders who understand a company’s culture from the inside out.
She joined HCLTech in January 2011 as Global Head – Employee Engagement, based in Chennai, and led that function for three years. From January 2014, she took on the role of HR Head – Enabling Functions, later adding global employee engagement to that charge as a dual responsibility.
In August 2017, her remit expanded significantly when she was named Global Head – Diversity & Inclusion, Employee Engagement & Experience, Wellness, and Rewards & Recognition – a wide-ranging position she held for nine years. From October 2023, her portfolio was further broadened to Global Head – D&I, People & Culture, continuing to cover engagement, experience, wellness, and R&R. She stepped into her current VP-level role in April 2026.
Life Before HCLTech
Kamal’s HR grounding was built across a mix of industries before she joined HCLTech. She spent close to three years as Senior HR at Motorola, from March 2008 to January 2011. Earlier still, she worked as HR Manager at Office Tiger Database Systems and as Corporate HR Manager at RR Donnelley India Outsource between June 2004 and March 2008. Her career began in June 2002 as a Senior Executive – HR & Admin at Cactus Imaging India, a role she held until 2004.
That cross-industry foundation – spanning telecom, BPO, and outsourcing – gave her early exposure to HR operations at scale before she settled into the IT services sector, where she has now spent the bulk of her career.
What the Expanded Role Signals
As Global Head – People & Culture, Kamal’s charter now covers talent management, leadership development, employee experience, organizational transformation, diversity and inclusion, and workforce strategy on a global scale. It’s a mandate that reflects how large IT services firms are rethinking the HR function – not as a support arm, but as a core lever for retention, engagement, and organizational resilience amid AI-driven shifts in how work gets done.
For HCLTech, promoting a long-tenured internal leader into this role suggests a preference for continuity and institutional knowledge over an external hire – a bet that someone who has already spent over a decade shaping the company’s engagement and D&I strategy is best placed to now own its people agenda in full.
About HCLTech
HCLTech is a global technology company known for its IT services, engineering, and digital transformation offerings, serving clients across financial services, manufacturing, technology, telecom, and other industries worldwide. The company has built its reputation on large-scale delivery capabilities combined with continued investment in innovation, talent, and workplace culture as it competes for both clients and talent in a fast-changing technology landscape.
With Kamal now leading its global People & Culture function, HCLTech signals continued intent to strengthen employee experience and organizational culture as it scales its global operations.
