He is the former chief executive officer of HCL Technologies (2007–13), Founder Chairman & CEO of Sampark Foundation and author of a critically acclaimed management book "Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down” (Harvard Business Press, June 2010).

During these years he helped it grow revenues and market cap by six times which led HCL to win awards for the WorldBlu certified Most Democratic Workplace in the world, Workforce Management Optimas Award for HR Innovation in US, Britain's Top Employers, Best Employer in Asia, and many more.

As a mentor to multiple technology start-ups, he continues to follow his passion of turning conventional management wisdom, upside down.

[3] Nayar narrated the story of his company in the book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010),[1] and also outlined the intellectual basis for transformation and lessons learned.

[5] In 2005, Vineet co-founded Sampark Foundation with his wife Anupama Nayar with “innovation-led large scale social change” as the central idea.