Jit Nagpal

Jit Nagpal

Founder and Chief Execution Officer

Jit has played a leading role in information technology industry for more than 28 years by catering to the needs of customers within financial services, insurance, telecommunications & government sectors, governing projects and managing functional & business operations in Asia Pacific & Middle East.

As a leader, Jit is passionate to build Sciente as a truly global ‘hybrid’ organisation with a difference, in which the business sponsors the social innovations to delight the community – an objective which is larger than the business. At the same time, he is committed to build a high-performance culture based on unbiased meritocracy, mutual trust, care, honesty, diversity and flexibility so that we continue to do a little bit more than expected to delight our customers. In brief, the dream is to create opportunities for everyone to live a meaningful life.

Jit has worked in various reputed multinationals and in Asian conglomerates like Hewlett Packard, HCL-an Indian IT conglomerate, Delteq Systems-a member of Wuthelam Group and Perot Systems and he has a rich experience within IT professional services industry and working with diversity. Prior to Sciente, he was the Director and Head of Asia Pacific Operations of Perot Systems, Consulting and Applications Solutions for eight years, based at their regional HQ at Singapore.

Jit has been named as one of 'Singapore's Leading Indian Entrepreneurs for the Year 2010' (Category 3), by Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry & sponsored by DBS Bank.

He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (AMP165) and an electronics and telecommunications engineer. He is a senior member of Singapore Computer Society of Singapore and Harvard Club of Singapore. He is a charter member of TiE Singapore. He loves indoor photography and plays tennis & golf when time permits.