Black Box expects rise in India biz share, hire 400 people in 2 yrs

Essar Group's IT arm Black Box expects the share of India business to grow by 1-2 percentage points in its course to become a $2 billion revenue company by 2027-28, a top official of the company said. The company specialises in building IT infrastructure for critical technology applications including hyperscaler data centres and planning to bring its learning to the Indian market as many of the company's global customers are looking to invest in the country, Black Box CEO Sanjeev Verma told PTI. He said that the company plans to increase employee headcount across all levels in India to around 1,000 people from about 600 people at present. "Currently, India is 6 per cent of our business. We do not expect it to become much larger, but if we have to go to $2 billion then it will be significantly important for us to move it to 7- 8 per cent," Verma said. Verma said that Black Box want to bring some value to India based on the expertise it has captured with some of the global clients overseas, "which are very, large, very complex".