Company overview
- Sector
- Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Sub-sector
- Hospital & Health Care
- Mandate (derived)
- Technology & Engineering
- Parent headquarters
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $21,000,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 38,229
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Bengaluru
- Pune
- Chennai
GCC notes
Medical imaging AI, health informatics and connected care engineering
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .GIS
- .NET
- 24-7 Media
- ABB Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
- ABB Robotics
- AC500 PLC
- ACL
- ADAPT
- ADP
- ADP GlobalView Payroll
- ADTRAN
- AI
- ANGEL LMS
- ANSYS
- API Gateway
Public leadership
Shivakumar Kr
Vice President and Head of Enterprise & Data Architecture
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
Philips (Royal Philips) is a Dutch multinational health technology company headquartered in Amsterdam, founded in Eindhoven in 1891; after divesting consumer electronics and lighting over the 2010s, it now focuses on diagnostic imaging, connected/patient-monitoring care, and personal health devices.
- India launch
- 1996
- Maturity
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
The India technology center traces to 1996 (Philips Software Centre → Philips Innovation Campus), giving it roughly three decades of continuous operation; spans multiple cities (Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai), carries an engineering-critical mandate (medical imaging AI, health informatics, connected care), and is led by a VP-level executive - consistent with a mature, strategically embedded GCC.
Timeline
- 1930
Philips begins business in India, establishing Philips Electrical Co. (India) Pvt Ltd in Calcutta as a sales outlet for imported Philips lamps.
- 1996
Philips Software Centre established in Bangalore - later renamed Philips Innovation Campus - becoming the technology/engineering hub referenced in this GCC profile.
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.