Lalit Sawhney spent 18 years with the Unilever Group in India and was head-information systems at Hindustan Lever. He was also awarded the prestigious IS Man of the Year award by Computerworld in 1999, and the Fellowship of the Computer Society of India in 1996. Lalit Sawhney did his graduation in Electronics Engineering from University of Delhi and a P G Diploma in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.