Kumara Raghavan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India29 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 25 years of leadership experience in technology.
Expert in creating and nurturing high-performance teams.
Proven track record in channel network and partner profitability growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in technology and cloud solutions across multiple global markets.

Contact

tnkrag@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Business AlliancesBusiness DevelopmentChannelChannel PartnersGo-to-market StrategyIT StrategyLeadershipManagementMarketingMarketing CommunicationsOutsourcingP&L ManagementPre-salesProduct ManagementProduct Marketing

About

Working with India's most promising enterprises for their technology requirements. Over 25 years of experience in leadership roles in the technology industry, across Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. My strengths lie in creating teams and leading them to success. My experience covers: -- Creation and nurturing of high-performance teams -- Cloud Technologies -- Channel network and partner profitability growth -- Territory Sales Management -- Profit & Loss Management -- Product Management

Experience

Microsoft india

Senior Director, SMEC

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Lead the account teams to cover Small Medium Enterprises and Channel business in India

Amazon web services (aws)

India Head, Startup Sales Segment

Mar 2021 – Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Lenovo

4 roles

Director, Software Defined Infrastructure, High Performance Computing & AI, Asia Pacific at Lenovo

Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 · 11 mos

Director, Software Defined Infrastructure, Data Center Group, Asia Pacific

Oct 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

Strategy and sales execution of Lenovo's Software Defined Infrastructure Solutions across Asia Pacific Markets (ANZ, ASEAN, India, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong & Taiwan)

Director of Product Management, Data Center Group, Asia Pacific

Promoted

May 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Product Management of Servers, Networking and Software for Asia Pacific Markets (ASEAN, Australia, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea & Taiwan, New Zealand)

Channels Director, Enterprise Business Group, Asia Pacific Emerging Markets

Oct 2014 – May 2015 · 7 mos

Strategy and execution of channel sales, partner network growth, channel profitability for Lenovo enterprise products and services across Asia Pacific Emerging Markets (ASEAN, India, Korea, Hong Kong & Taiwan)

Ibm

5 roles

Head, Run Rate Sales, IBM Growth Markets, Business Partner Organisation

Jan 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Lead Volume Server and Storage Channel Sales for IBM's Growth Markets; a territory spanning across Asia, Latin America, Middle East & Africa and Central Europe including Russia.

Sales Manager, Growth Markets

Promoted

Jan 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

Responsible for Sales of x86 Volume Servers across Growth Markets - Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Product Offerings Manager

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs

Responsible for Strategy and Execution of the autonomous sales of x86 Servers and entry Storage products in the Growth markets (Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and Latin America)