Sonia Eland Has Been Appointed as the National Manager for HCL Tech’s Operations in Australia and New Zealand

HCL Technologies (HCLTech) announced on Tuesday the hiring of Sonia Eland as executive vice president and country manager for its Australia and New Zealand operations, effective April 1, 2024.

Eland succeeds Michael Horton, who moves into a consultancy position after almost a decade in which he helped grow HCLTech as a digital technology services partner in Australia and New Zealand, according to a corporate announcement.

In her new role, Eland will report to Swapan Johri, President, of Growth Markets at HCLTech. She will be based in Sydney. “Sonia brings with her over three decades of experience across a diverse set of industries such as consulting, technology, banking, retail, and travel,” according to HCLTech.

She was the technology strategy and transformation partner at Deloitte Australia before joining HCLTech. She has previously worked for companies such as DXC Technology, CSC, Fujitsu, Westpac, and HSBC. She attended Macquarie Business School and the University of Sydney.

HCLTech has been working in Australia and New Zealand for over two decades, bringing digital, engineering, cloud, and AI skills across a variety of industries. This year, the company expanded its collaborations with ANZ Bank, Cricket Australia, and the agricultural giant Elders.

HCL Technologies Ltd. is a company that specializes in computer programming, consulting, and other related services. It operates in three segments: software services, information technology (IT), and business process outsourcing services.

Application development and maintenance, enterprise applications, next-generation software as a service application services, engineering, and research and development are all part of the Software Services category. IT Services offers management services for customers’ information technology assets.

The Business Process Outsourcing Services division provides both classic contact center and help desk services as well as next-generation services based on platform business process as a service. Shiv Nadar created the firm on November 12, 1991, and it is based in Noida, India.

According to Comparably, the majority of HCLTech workers say the work environment is pleasant. According to AmbitionBox, 25,200 workers evaluated the work culture 3.5, job security 4.0, and work-life balance 3.7. HCLTech has an aggregate rating of 3.6 out of 5 on Glassdoor, based on 42,578 reviews. 70% of HCLTech workers would recommend the company to a friend.

HCL Technologies has a market capitalization of $41.02 billion as of November 2023. According to our statistics, this places HCL Technologies as the 412nd most valuable business in the world by market capitalization. The market capitalization, often known as market cap, is the total market value of a publicly traded business’s outstanding shares and is widely used to determine the value of a firm.