HCL Technologies announced a strategic collaboration with Red Hat on May 14, 2026, aimed at delivering enterprise-grade AI infrastructure solutions for organizations accelerating their AI adoption journeys. The partnership strengthens HCLTech's AI Factory solution ecosystem, which brings together global technology leaders to provide best-in-class AI infrastructure solutions to its clients.

HCLTech AI Factory with Red Hat

The HCLTech AI Factory with Red Hat is built on Red Hat AI Enterprise and provides an integrated foundation for running AI workloads consistently across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. The solution is engineered to address the growing need for scalable, enterprise-ready AI deployment capabilities.

Key capabilities of the HCLTech AI Factory with Red Hat include:

• Infrastructure Efficiency: Designed to improve infrastructure efficiency and reduce inference costs through model optimization and distributed serving
• Unified Operations: Offers a unified operational framework across diverse deployment environments
• Enterprise-Grade Data Foundation: Incorporates governance and lineage features to support reliable AI operations at scale
• Consistent Workload Management: Enables organizations to deploy and manage critical AI workloads from the core data center to the edge

Leadership Perspectives

Rampal Singh, Senior Vice President and Global Business Head – Hybrid Cloud Business Unit at HCLTech, noted that enterprises are moving beyond experimentation to operationalizing AI across their core businesses. He stated that the HCLTech AI Factory with Red Hat is designed to help organizations industrialize AI, bringing together the right foundational building blocks to translate AI investments into measurable business outcomes.

Ryan King, Vice President, AI and Infrastructure Partners at Red Hat, described the launch as a significant milestone in bringing enterprise-grade AI to customers. He highlighted that by building on the trusted foundation of Red Hat AI Enterprise and Red Hat's full portfolio of enterprise-grade, AI-optimized open source software, HCLTech is providing organizations with a unified, scalable platform to deploy and manage their critical AI workloads consistently.

About HCLTech

HCL Technologies is a global technology company with more than 227,000 people across 60 countries, delivering capabilities centered around AI, digital, engineering, cloud, and software. The company serves clients across major verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, High Tech, Semiconductor, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, Mobility, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending March 2026 totaled $14.7 billion.

HCL Technologies Limited has published newspaper advertisements in compliance with Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, disclosing its ongoing postal ballot process for the appointment of Ms. Kimsuka Narsimhan (DIN: 02102783) as a Non-Executive Independent Director. The advertisements were published on May 12, 2026, in Mint (All Editions) in English and Hindustan (Delhi Edition) in Hindi, and copies have been made available on the Company's website at www.hcltech.com . The disclosure was filed by Company Secretary Manish Anand with both BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited.

The Board of Directors, at its meeting held on April 20-21, 2026, appointed Ms. Narsimhan as an Additional Director (Non-Executive Independent) with effect from April 20, 2026, subject to member approval via Special Resolution through postal ballot. The Postal Ballot Notice, dated May 8, 2026, was dispatched electronically to eligible shareholders on May 11, 2026. The appointment was recommended by the Nomination and Remuneration Committee (NRC), which considered her competencies in financial and risk management, strategic leadership, corporate governance, global and international business, and ESG and sustainability.

Appointment Details

The proposed appointment is for a term of five consecutive years, not liable to retire by rotation. The key parameters of the appointment are summarised below:

Ms. Narsimhan has also been co-opted as a member of the Audit Committee and the Risk Management Committee of HCL Technologies with effect from April 20, 2026. She will be entitled to sitting fees for attending Board and Committee meetings, as approved by the Board, and to profit-related commission within the overall limits of remuneration payable to all Non-Executive Directors under the Act, not exceeding 1% of the net profits of the Company during any financial year.

Profile of Ms. Kimsuka Narsimhan

Ms. Kimsuka Narsimhan is a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Madras. She is a Gold Medalist at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a University ranker. With over 35 years of extensive experience in the consumer goods industry, she has held senior leadership roles across Finance, Risk Management, Strategy, and Business Transformation with leading global organisations. Her career highlights include:

• CFO – Asia Pacific at Kimberly-Clark
• CFO – India Region at PepsiCo
• Global and India leadership roles at Unilever
• Experience across multiple geographies including Europe, the Middle East & Africa, India, and Southeast Asia

On the non-executive front, she has over a decade of experience as a Director on the boards of prominent organisations, including Bharti Airtel, Meesho, Akzo Nobel, and Astra Zeneca. She is also a Board Member of the SIM People Development Fund (SIMPDF).

Current Directorships and Committee Roles

Ms. Narsimhan's existing board and committee positions are detailed below:

Committee Memberships in other Companies:

Remote E-Voting Process

The Company has engaged National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) to facilitate the remote e-voting process. The Cut-off date for determining eligible members is May 6, 2026. The e-voting schedule is as follows:

The Scrutinizer for the postal ballot process is M/s. Nityanand Singh & Co., Company Secretaries (Membership No. FCS 2668; CP No. 2388), appointed by the Board at its meeting held on April 20-21, 2026. If the resolution is passed by the requisite majority, it shall be deemed to have been passed on June 10, 2026. Members are requested to cast their votes exclusively through the remote e-voting facility; physical copies of the Postal Ballot Form are not being sent in compliance with MCA Circulars. The Postal Ballot Notice is available on the Company's website at www.hcltech.com and on NSDL's website at www.evoting.nsdl.com .