Dec 2025 – Present · 3 mos

• Independent Director on Board, Chairman IT Strategy Committee, Member Audit & NRC committees.
• A Non-Banking Financial Company formed with an objective to provide easy financing services to various sections of the community.

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos

• Advisng leadership on building ecosytstems and go to market for BluSpaphire's innovative cybersecurity products and services.

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

• Independent Director on Board. Also Chairperson for IT Strategy Committee. Member NRC, CSR and Risk Management Committees.
• SK Finance Limited is a Non-Banking Financial Company that caters to the financial requirements for individuals, businesses and enterprises.

Sep 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As Consultant – Corporate Engagement with IIT Bombay Corporate Development Relations Foundations team, I facilitated engagements and connects for building industry and academia partnerships for joint research and social impact projects.

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · India

• Tanmatra Foundation, a non-profit organization that plans to address the capability and employability gap for early professional positions in enterprise sales and business development.

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · India

• ZeroT Plus Technologies is a limited liability partnership organisation founded by deep skilled, global Information technology professionals in the domains of Cybersecurity and Digital transformation.
• ZeroT Plus helps business' assess security postures and strengthen their cyber security posture through their digital transformation journey.

Feb 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Inflection Point Ventures (IPV) is an angel investing platform which supports new-age entrepreneurs, providing them monetary & experiential capital by connecting them with a diverse group of investors. As an Angel investor with IPV I invest in startups across diverse domains and engage with the teams to help them in their growth journeys.

Aug 2012 – Jul 2022 · 9 yrs 11 mos

• As Vice President, I had the opportunity to lead assignments spanning geographies like India & South Asia, Asia Pacific & China and growth markets in CEE, MEA, Latin America. The roles and experiences ranged from
• Building teams and business partnership programs to take IBM enterprise technology offerings to clients through the BP route to market. Based out of Shanghai, this role required skills to lead teams across diverse cultures, design and implementing a scalable model of business partnerships, and operating the same to deliver incremental growth.
• Creating and developing a new organization of Ecosystem sales & distribution with Global System Integrators & Consultants, Managed Service Providers, ISVs, and Value Added Distributors for the new world of cloud & cognitive computing. This required redesigning the business models, enablement models, developing partner programs & incentives and amplifying the digital engines.
• Turning around the IBM Cyber Security Software and Services business for IBM Asia Pacific and China geos. This required attracting and retaining top talent, infusing new energy & motivation in execution, building overall organisation capacity and capability to sustain growth, and disciplined operations to transform the business.
• Enabling and advising C-Suite executives on business and cyber risk management, and regulatory compliance requirements. Leading teams that help clients define policies, process and mitigation actions against threats and disruptions to business operations.

Jun 2007 – Jul 2012 · 5 yrs 1 mo

• As Director in IBM India/SA I led multiple business units viz. Business Partners, Global System Integrators & Consultants, Systems Technology Group, and the Integrated Digital, Marketing & Channels unit.
• As Director Business Partners, I transformed and rebuilt the IBM Channels organisation and the Business partner Route. Set up and built traction with India based Global System Integrators for all IBM portfolio. I was recognised as the most influential Channel Chief by CRN (July 2011).
• As Director Systems Technology Group, I led the team to drive P&L outcomes for Systems brands. Role required turning around the IBM Systems business to profitable growth in the then prevalent global economic meltdown business environment. Systems installed base & GP grew YTY in a declining market and had best of class market leading results in key product categories.
• As Director for Integrated Marketing, Channels & Tele/Web Sales, I led the integration of digital and marketing demand generation engines, with the Business Partners channel to grow Mid-Market share. Implemented process, policies, management system, and business controls for efficiency in sales operations. I was also the executive lead for setting up Centre of Excellence to help sellers in Q2C [Quote to Cash] operations.

May 1993 – Jun 2007 · 14 yrs 1 mo

• Early formative years, I started as a client relationship manager and developed over time to territory sales management, product management, and leading business units as executive. I managed sales teams for delivering business results for key clients, Small & Medium Business’, Brand Management and Business partners across India/South Asia.

Jun 1988 – Mar 1991 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• As Software engineer, I developed customized solutions combining IT and Data communication technologies like High Resilience infrastructure solutions for UNIX servers, Prototypes for Telephone based interactive applications, TCP/IP based Terminal Server and Real time OS based communication applications. I also developed and provided support to key customers on RDBMS based development in High Availability configurations.