C Vijayakumar, CEO & MD and Prateek Aggarwal, CFO, HCL Tech in conversation with ET Now after announcement of Q4 results. Vijayakumar says: “ Overall, our deal momentum is good. We have a strong pipeline. We believe the first half of the year will be strong bookings and that will drive good growth momentum in … Read more
Jonathan Hunt, MD & CEO, Syngene International, says the company deployed $55 million last year. Next year, they will be a little bit ahead of that – about $60 million. There are the usual themes within their business – automation, digitisation, improving productivity through an upgrading of technologies. About half of that should go towards … Read more
Anand Athreya, CEO & MD and Arnob Roy, COO & ED, Tejas Networks , in conversation with ET NOW. Though BSNL has given the biggest order, a significant amount of the order book is for other customers and for Tejas’ wireline products. The order book is mainly the business and tenders that they have won … Read more
Sandeep Kalra, CEO, Persistent Systems, says “as we go ahead, as the market conditions stabilise, that will give us the opportunity to have the leverage of all the investments we have done whether they are in the next generation technologies like generative AI or increased sales and marketing investments, etc, and that should help us … Read more
Pratik Oswal, Head – ETFs and Index Funds, Motilal AMC, says when it comes to passive funds, keep it very simple. There are a lot of options out there – , ETFs, index funds. Between ETFs and index funds, keep it very simple, do whatever you think is convenient, do not overthink it. When it … Read more
Gajendra Singh, Member, PNGRB (Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board), says PNGRB has come out with pricing revision because the companies, because of the volume growth, had made more than 12% returns Since this is a regulated entity, PNGRB is only ensuring that whatever the fine print was, if they are making returns of more … Read more
Naveen Mishra, VP, Team Manager, Gartner, says in ‘25 we anticipate CIOs would execute their Gen AI strategy and as a part of it, every service provider especially the large data centre companies are spending into servers, network etc. While you have upgraded your worldwide IT spend guidance with respect to the forecast that you … Read more
Sabyasachi Majumdar, Senior Director, CARE Ratings, the power sector is expected to have ample availability of electricity from thermal, gas, wind, and solar sources. The assurance lies in the willingness of distribution companies to pay for the power they receive. The current season is particularly favorable for wind and solar power generation. Unlike the supply … Read more
Suvankar Sen, MD & CEO, Senco Gold, says the endeavour of the Birla group to enter into the industry is just a signal that the industry is getting more and more organised. The story that we have been hearing over the last 5-10 years, the shift from the unorganised to organised, are the actions and … Read more
Rakesh Rawal, CEO, says “Anand Rathi Wealth has grown in the 30% range for the last several years that we have been in the market. We projected 20-25% and achieved 30%. This year also, we projected 20-25% and hopefully we should meet that and try and better the expectations. Broadly, the industry is very well … Read more
