The newly elected Nasscom executive council has got representation from all the major companies, except from the country?s fourth largest IT services exporter HCL Technologies. The 18-member executive council has been elected by members for a period of two years (2013-15) through an online voting process and Anant Gupta, President & CEO, HCL Technologies could not make the cut.

The Nasscom executive council is now reprsented by the CXOs of Alcatel Lucent India, Capgemini, NIIT Technologies, Accenture, Infotech Enterprises, Microsoft, Satyam, Dell, Cisco, Mindtree, L&T Infotech, HP India, Cognizant, Google, Quatrro, Wipro, Infosys and IBM. Gupta was in contention along with 57 others including the likes of Rishad Premji of Wipro, Srinath Batni of Infosys, CP Gurnani of Satyam Computer, Neelam Dhawan of HP etc, who all went on to get elected.

A statement from the industry body said, ??The elections received an overwhelming response with over 582 members voting for the candidates of their choice. Over 70% of the members who voted for the elections were SME members of Nasscom.??

There was considerable interest in these elections as many members had expressed their frustration in the manner in which Nasscom was being functioning as being a representative of the large companies. Though, there was some expectation that more number of smaller companies would get their representation, the latest result actually show the dominance of the large players.

The industry body said that to ensure representation for different industry segments, the executive council will nominate six members in the next few weeks, which will also include the past chairman. Nasscom also has a large number of forums for specific industry sub-sectors that have specific representation of these segments.

Nasscom had formed a seven member panel led by Infosys? chairman NR Narayana Murthy to focus on key new verticals and enablers including internet and mobile, domestic market and software products. Nasscom had also spoken recently about reaching a size of $300 billion by 2020 encompassing newer segments and markets.