Hitesh is a CoPromoter, MD and CEO of Info Edge India Limited. Apart from the country's leading job site, Naukri.com, Info Edge also owns 99acres.com, Jeevansathi.com, and Shiksha.com and has investments in various internet startups like Zomato and PolicyBazaar
With over 24 years of experience in the internet industry, he is part of various industry forums. He is a Board member of the TiE, New Delhi and also the past Chairman of IAMAI – The Internet and Mobile Association of India.
He is also one of the Founders and Trustees of Ashoka University and the newly set up Plaksha University. 
An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore, he won the Prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Business Transformation in the year 2008 along with his Partner. He has also been awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award of 2019 by IIM Bangalore and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of 2021 by IIT Delhi.