Som Mittal to join EXL’s Board of Directors

EXL has announced that it has elected Som Mittal to its Board of Directors which will be effective from December 1, 2013. Som Mittal has served as President of NASSCOM, the premier trade body of the IT and business process management industries in India from 2008 and will conclude his tenure in January 2014. As the President of NASSCOM, Mittal has worked with stakeholders around the world, including governments, leading multinational corporations, think tanks, analysts and other associations to further the industry.

Vikram Talwar, Chairman, EXL’s Board of Directors, said, Som is a leader in advancing and evolving the IT and business process management industries, and we are thrilled to welcome him to our Board of Directors. EXL will greatly benefit from his guidance, experience and knowledge as we further integrate technology and analytics into our operations management services to deliver differentiated value to our clients.

Mittal has held various corporate leadership roles in the IT industry since 1989, including at companies such as Wipro, Digital India, Compaq and HP.

Mittal also serves as an Independent Director and Chairman of the IT Strategy Committee of Axis Bank and is a member of Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. He and has been a committee member with the Indian Prime Minister’s National e-Governance Programme, a board member at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Indore, a member of the Governing Council at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Hyderabad, and a member of the Governing Body of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Bangalore.