Hitachi Digital Hires Amit Handoo As VP, Strategic Sales For Energy

Amit Handoo has joined Hitachi Digital as vice president, strategic sales, energy and utilities, Americas, with a focus on AI, digital grid and data centres. He is based in Dallas, Texas, and started in October 2026.
- Company: Hitachi Digital
- Role: Vice president, strategic sales, energy and utilities, Americas
- Location: Dallas, Texas
- Previously: Vice president, global markets, GlobalLogic
What Amit Handoo Will Lead
Handoo's remit covers strategic client engagement, growth and digital transformation for energy and utility companies. The areas named include grid planning and market optimisation, generation interconnection, transmission planning, data centre infrastructure, and digital grid and asset intelligence. He will also build relationships with senior client executives and ecosystem partners.
GlobalLogic And HCL
Handoo joins from GlobalLogic, where he was vice president, global markets and business unit head from November 2021, running the unit for industrial manufacturing, energy and utilities across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific with profit and loss responsibility.
Before that he spent 21 years at HCL Technologies. He was global client partner and sales director for energy and utilities in Dallas from 2018 to 2021, client partner and senior regional sales director for retail, consumer goods and utilities from 2013 to 2018, and business unit head in New Delhi from 2010 to 2013. He joined HCL in 2000 as a project leader and later became an engagement manager for retail, media, publishing and entertainment.
Early Career
He began in 1998 as a product engineer and then worked as a project leader at Global Tech Solution and Go4i.com in Delhi.
Why It Matters
Utilities and grid operators are spending on AI, grid modernisation and data centre capacity, the areas Hitachi Digital has built this role around. Handoo brings more than 28 years of selling technology services, most of them to energy and utility clients.
Hitachi Digital has not issued a statement, and no reporting line has been disclosed.
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