HCL Technologies appoints Jaco Van Eeden as Global Head of its Beyond Digital Business Unit

HCL Technologies (HCL), a global IT services provider announced the appointment of Jaco Van Eeden as Executive Vice President to lead HCL’s Beyond Digital Business Unit. As the Head of this Business, Jaco will lead the Unit’s Sales, Delivery and Product teams to further strengthen HCL’s Go-To-Market propositions in the Enterprise Digital Transformation and Innovation space.

Jaco is a career Digitalist who brings over two decades of international IT strategy and ERP system implementation experience with demonstrated career success developing and executing technology transformation initiatives for many Fortune 500 companies globally. In his previous role Jaco led the building and delivering of Enterprise Digital solutions focusing on Enterprise Usability, Mobile, User Experience (UX) and eCommerce with Predictive Cloud and Mobile solutions to simplify the day-in-the-life work experience for users and customers. His industry experience spans Consumer Product, Retail, Wholesale Distribution, Industrial Products, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas and Public Sector industries.

“HCL has long held the view that Enterprises need to devise their Digitalization strategy with a combination of sprint and marathon approach which lays equal emphasis on point solutions as well as multi-layered Transformation Programs”, said Anant Gupta, President & CEO, HCL Technologies. “Jaco’s rich experience of having delivered large scale Digital Programs for Global 1000 corporations and his understanding of the enabling technology space give him the unique ability to execute this approach for our clients and position HCL as a Digital Transformation Partner of choice”, he added.

“HCL’s unique DNA of Technology Engineering and Operations provide an excellent platform for it to deliver United Experiences to enterprises looking for a lifecycle partner who can design and execute their Digital Transformation blueprints”, said Jaco Van Eeden, Executive Vice President & Global Head, Beyond Digital Business Unit, HCL Technologies. “Additionally its institutionalized culture of Ideapreneurship and relationship orientation makes it a most compelling candidate to disrupt and empower the 21^st century Enterprise and I am delighted to lead this campaign.”