HCL Technologies Announces Two Key Additions to HCL America Team

NEW DELHI, INDIA and SUNNYVALE, CA, Jun 13 (MARKET
WIRE) --
HCL Technologies Ltd. ("HCL"), India's leading global IT services company,
today announced the appointments of Debashish Sinha as vice president of
marketing and Kirsten Paragona as director of external communications, HCL
America.

Debashish Sinha will be responsible for driving marketing strategies and
initiatives in the U.S.-geography and comes to HCL with more than 17 years
experience in marketing, strategy consulting and business development in the
Global Services industry. Prior to joining HCL, Sinha was the president of
BNI Service Strategies, based in Palo Alto, Calif., and the founding partner
at Conscient Partners. Through BNI and Conscient Partners, Sinha worked closely
with large global service providers, industry associations and government
agencies
to build thought leadership and execute key marketing and business strategies.
Before launching his own firm, Sinha was the managing director for global
advisory services at neoIT, a global operational consulting firm, as well as
a principal analyst for global IT services at Gartner, a leading industry
analyst
firm.

Kirsten Paragona joins the HCL Technologies team with more than 15 years
ofmarketing communications, project management and public relations experience.
She
will drive external communications strategy, brand visibility and salience
strengthening initiatives in the US geography. Paragona previously served as the
director of corporate media relations for Cognizant Technology Solutions,
where she was responsible for the entire range of corporate media relations
activities, including public relations and corporate social responsibility.
Prior
to Cognizant, Paragona was the director of corporate communications at
Montreal-based CGI, with US headquarters in Andover, Mass., where her
responsibilities included corporate branding, media and analyst relations and
management of internal communications.

"The US represents the largest business region for HCL today. More than
size,
our focus on value centricity enabled by multiservice capability, innovative
business
models and the Employee First philosophy has created Blue Oceans in the global
IT
outsourcing landscape and in the process built unique market positions," stated
Shami Khorana, President, HCL America. "To help us build on the market momentum,
accelerate our growth and gain recognition in the chosen markets with
stakeholders in the ecosystem, we are increasing marketing investments and
localizing marketing focus in the US. With their knowledge and insights,
Debashish and Kirsten are perfectly suited to lead our marketing and
communications
initiatives and we are excited to have them on board."

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is one of India's leading global IT Services companies,
providing
software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management services and BPO.
Having
made a foray into the global IT landscape in 1999 after its IPO, HCL
Technologies focuses on Transformational Outsourcing, working with clients in
areas
that impact and re-define the core of their business. The company leverages an
extensive global offshore infrastructure and its global network of offices in 18
countries to deliver solutions across select verticals including Financial
Services, Retail & Consumer, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Hi-Tech &
Manufacturing,
Telecom and Media & Entertainment (M&E). For the quarter ended 31st March
2008, HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries had last twelve months
(LTM)revenue of US $ 1.8 billion (Rs. 7083 crores) and employed 49,802
professionals.

About HCL Enterprise

HCL Enterprise is a $ 4.8 billion leading Global Technology and IT
Enterprise that comprises two companies listed in India -- HCL
Technologies& HCL Infosystems. The 3-decade-old enterprise, founded in 1976, is
one of
India's original IT garage start-ups. Its range of offerings span Product
Engineering, Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT
Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products. The HCL team
comprises over 55,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from
18
countries including 360 points of presence in India. HCL has global
partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and
Technology firms. For more information, please visit www.hcl.in

Forward-looking Statements

Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements, which
involve a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such
forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of
historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements,
including
but not limited to the statements containing the words 'planned,' 'expects,'
'believes,' 'strategy,' 'opportunity,' 'anticipates,' 'hopes' or other similar
words.
The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not
limited
to, risks and uncertainties regarding impact of pending regulatory
proceedings,fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense
competitionin IT services, Business Process Outsourcing and consulting services
including
those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India,
customer acceptances of our services, products and fee structures, our
ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, our ability to
integrate
acquired assets in a cost effective and timely manner, time and cost overruns on
fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on
immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand
for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication
networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential
acquisitions, the success of our brand development efforts, liability for
damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies / entities in
which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal
incentives,political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or
acquiring companies
outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property, other risks,
uncertainties and general economic conditions affecting our industry. There
can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements made herein will prove
to be
accurate, and issuance of such forward-looking statements should not be regarded
as a
representation by the Company, or any other person, that the objective and
plans of the Company will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made
herein are based on information presently available to the management of the
Company and the Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking
statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.

For details, contact

Meena Vaidyanathan
HCL Technologies
Email Contact
+91 981 866 5523

Sandy George
Citigate Cunningham for HCL
Email Contact
+1 617 374 4210

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