HCLTech restructures the top management with a new COO and CHRO

India’s third largest IT company HCLTech on Wednesday announced a restructuring of its top management by switching its leadership for key roles including the heads for human resources (HR) and corporate functions.

VV Apparao, who has worked as the company’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) since 2017, will now take over as the chief delivery officer for nearshore. The nearshore refers to the strategy wherein the company outsources its processes or services to countries within the same continent and with a similar time zone that of the market it serves.

HCLTech employs over 10,000 people in all its nearshore locations and it plans to double it in the next three to five years.