NEC Corporation India, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, recently elevated Aalok Kumar, hitherto Chairman, President and CEO at NEC Corporation India, to Corporate Officer, Senior Vice-President, & Head of Global Smart City Business.
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Aalok will continue to lead the India business and further strengthen India’s strategic positioning for NEC Group as a whole. He will continue to forge partnerships with the Government and private sector, pursuant to the company’s vision of “In India, for India” and “From India, for Global”. Aalok will take over a new global role as a Corporate Officer and Senior Vice President and Head of the Global Smart City Business. As part of NEC’s Corporate Management Team, he will be responsible for building a global business, drawing on his unique learnings from his global experience.
“Having spearheaded some of our biggest marquee projects for both public and private organisations in his time at NEC Corporation India, Aalok has played a pivotal role in cementing NEC Corporation’s position as a trusted digital transformation partner to the Government and enterprises of India,” Takayuki Morita, President and CEO, NEC Corporation, said. “His new position as a Corporate Officer and NEC’s management member leading India shows NEC’s commitment and importance towards India as a market.”
According to him, NEC aims at building a robust Global Smart City vertical, represented by talent from all over the world with deep technological know-how and experience. India will play a major role in shaping this, drawing on Aalok’s expertise in driving digital transformation in India and the learnings from smart city projects implemented in the country.
In a very visible future, he will endeavour to set up a global Smart City Centre of Excellence in India, thereby fast-tracking the company’s realisation of its vision of developing solutions “From India, For Global.”
Says Aalok Kumar: “I am humbled by the opportunity given to me by the global leadership. I have had the privilege of leading an exceptional team in India, and it is with their unmatched talent and support that we have been able to accomplish some crucial milestones for NEC Corporation India thus far. I look forward to fulfilling the responsibilities that come with this new role and will strive to take NEC to greater heights in close collaboration with the entire team.”
An alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi, and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Aalok Kumar brings nearly three decades of experience in senior leadership roles in business transformation, performance improvement, and margin expansion. Prior to taking up the mantle as the President, and CEO at NEC India in 2020, he served as the senior vice-president of McKinsey & Company. He has also worked in companies like GE Healthcare, GE Capital and ABN Amro Bank.
It is to be reckoned that as part of NEC Corporation’s on-going organizational restructuring, various business units within the company, and management structure are being streamlined and consolidated on a global scale. In line with NEC’s “2030VISION”, the company aims at further strengthening its corporate governance, and boosting management speed towards catalyzing the growth of its global business pillars.
This will help NEC Corporation achieve its Mid-term Management Plan 2025 and increase NEC’s medium- to long-term corporate value as a global technology company.
