Hexaware CEO R Srikrishna Honored as Most Promising Business Leader for Third Consecutive Year at Times Now Asian Business Leaders Conclave 2025

R Srikrishna, CEO and Executive Director, Hexaware Technologies—a global leader in IT services and solutions—was recognized as the Most Promising Business Leader at the prestigious Times Now Asian Business Leaders Conclave 2025 for the third year in a row. This accolade celebrates Srikrishna’s contributions to reshaping the IT industry, driving Hexaware’s meteoric growth, and solidifying its position as a global AI-first powerhouse.  

Under Srikrishna’s stewardship, Hexaware achieved 124.5% brand value growth over the last four years, soaring to USD 824 million in 2025, as per the Brand Finance IT Services report. This remarkable achievement also earned Hexaware a spot among the Top 25 Global IT Services Brands for the first time in 2025. His bold pivot to an AI-first strategy positioned Hexaware as an industry frontrunner, with 99% of its IT workforce, including leadership, now GenAI-trained to deliver scalable enterprise solutions. This strategic foresight unlocked substantial savings for clients through initiatives like Brainbox, which harnessed 5,906 employee-driven innovations.  

“This recognition is a testament to our collective vision of redefining the future of IT through innovation, inclusivity, and integrity,” said Srikrishna. “Our focus remains on delivering transformative value to clients, empowering our talent, and leading the charge toward a sustainable digital economy.”  

Srikrishna’s leadership has propelled Hexaware beyond traditional IT services into a technology-led solutions pioneer. Key milestones include:  

• AI Dominance: Spearheading one of the industry’s largest AI readiness programs, enabling end-to-end enterprise AI deployment.  
• Global Footprint: Expanding into high-growth markets, including the Middle East, alongside talent hub expansions in cities like Bhopal, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, and Dehradun.  
• ESG Leadership: Achieving 59% renewable energy adoption, a Silver Medal from EcoVadis in 2024, with women now comprising 33.5% of our workforce, progressing toward the goal of 40% by 2030.  
• Brand Resilience: A 14% YoY brand value surge in 2024, with an AA+ rating and 76.4 Brand Strength Index, outperforming peers amid geopolitical headwinds.  
• Return to the Bourses: The company returned to the public markets with a total issue size of ₹8,750 crores, marking the largest-ever IPO by an IT services firm in India.

An IIT Madras and IIM Calcutta alumnus, Srikrishna combines 25+ years of IT expertise with a visionary approach to leadership. His early recognition as the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader of the Year (2010) foreshadowed a career defined by breaking barriers and setting benchmarks.  Under his leadership, Hexaware continues to redefine industry standards while championing inclusive growth.

About Hexaware

Hexaware is a global technology and business process services company. Every day, Hexawarians wake up with a singular purpose; to create smiles through great people and technology. With offices across the world, we empower enterprises worldwide to realize digital transformation at scale and speed by partnering with them to build, transform, run, and optimize their technology and business processes.

Learn more about Hexaware at https://hexaware.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

Certain statements in this press release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking, which involve numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases globally, our ability to attract and retain highly-skilled professionals, 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, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Hexaware has 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 and general economic conditions affecting our industry.

For more information, contact:

Reena Kamble
Hexaware Technologies Limited
reenak3@hexaware.com

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