Vikram Talwar

Vikram Talwar is an Indian businessman who co-founded EXL Service.

After 26 years of service with the bank, Talwar worked as chief executive officer and managing director at Ernst & Young in India from 1998 to 1999. He quit Ernst & Young to start his own firm, Exl Service Holdings, Inc., with Rohit Kapoor, a colleague from Bank of America in April 1999.

Talwar served Exl in various capacities—as a Chief Executive Officer from April 1999; as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of company's board of directors from November 2002 to April 2008; as Executive Chairman from May 2008 to April 2011; and as a Chairman from April 2011 to February 2014. He retired on 5 May 2014.

In an interview to Sudhir Chowdhary, a The Financial Express correspondent, he said "one is never too old to embark on a new adventure in life," and "Life is never perfect. You make plans, they have to be changed. But you keep moving, keep flowing along. I myself am trying to figure out how to reinvent myself from next month onwards".