Ketan Patel — CEO

Accomplished management professional with 29 years of extensive experience and proven track record in driving growth and accelerating transformation by managing large scale business units and consistently meeting and exceeding sales revenue with improved profitability. An inspirational & collaborative leader with a strong track record of building high performance teams not only in direct line of reporting but also extended teams. Strong demonstration of diversity, inclusion and social impact through sustainability initiatives. Exhibited Leadership in Strategic planning and operational excellence through expert management of cross functions, multi-disciplinary teams in a matrix organization. Held various leadership positions in category, product management, sales & marketing for customers across various segments from Home to Small & Medium Business to large enterprises, public sector & education in field of Computing, Printing & Services across Asia Pacific & Japan. Network & Relationships with key industry associations, opinion makers, analysts, alliances, channel partners and customers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned executive in the B2B technology sector, specializing in personal systems and business transformation.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 29 yrs 9 mos

Career Highlights

29 years of experience in management and transformation.
Proven track record in driving growth and profitability.
Expert in leading high-performance teams across diverse sectors.

Work Experience

HP

President, Personal Systems (4 mos)

SVP & Chief Operating Officer Global Personal Systems Category (2 yrs 11 mos)

SVP & Managing Director - India Market (India, Bangladesh, Srilanka) (2 yrs 3 mos)

Vice President & Head of Greater Asia Personal Systems Category (9 mos)

Vice President & Head : Business Personal Systems, Asia Pacific & Japan (2 yrs 1 mo)

Head & Senior Director - Personal Systems Business Unit, India (3 yrs 9 mos)

Director-Consumer Personal Systems (1 yr 11 mos)

Country Category Head - Commercial & Consumer Notebook & Mobility Business Unit (1 yr 5 mos)

Country Category Manager - Consumer Desktops (11 mos)

Head of SMB, Channel Strategy & Marketing (2 yrs 11 mos)

Regional Channel Sales Manager (1 yr)

Wipro Ltd. - India

Regional Business Manager (7 yrs)

TVS Electronics

Sr. Sales Executiv (1 yr)

Masibus Automation and Instrumentation Pvt Ltd

Marketing Engineer (2 yrs 3 mos)

Education

Diploma in General Management at Helsinki Graduate School of Economics

Executive Management at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

B.E. Industrial Electronics at Bharati Vidyapeeth

Ketan Patel

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States29 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

29 years of experience in management and transformation.
Proven track record in driving growth and profitability.
Expert in leading high-performance teams across diverse sectors.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned executive in the B2B technology sector, specializing in personal systems and business transformation.

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Key Account ManagementBusiness AlliancesTeam ManagementChannel SalesPartner ManagementSales ManagementBusiness DevelopmentProduct ManagementComplete P&L ResponsibilityMarketingBusiness StrategyCross-functional Team LeadershipPStrategyChannel Partners

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Experience

Hp

11 roles

President, Personal Systems

Promoted

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos

SVP & Chief Operating Officer Global Personal Systems Category

Nov 2022 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

SVP & Managing Director - India Market (India, Bangladesh, Srilanka)

Promoted

Aug 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Vice President & Head of Greater Asia Personal Systems Category

Nov 2019 – Aug 2020 · 9 mos

Vice President & Head : Business Personal Systems, Asia Pacific & Japan

Promoted

Sep 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

VP & Head of Business Personal Systems : Asia Pacific & Japan. Business Personal Systems Business Unit includes products & services for Commercial Desktops, Commercial Notebooks, Workstations, Thin Clients, Point of Sales, VR & Immersive Computing products to be sold to various customer segments from Enterprise, SMB, Public Sector, Education & Healthcare

Head & Senior Director - Personal Systems Business Unit, India

Promoted

Nov 2013 – Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Heading Computing Products Category for Hewlett Packard India, spanning across Consumer & Commercial Segments. Covering all Computing Products - Notebooks, Tablets, Phablets, Desktops, Workstations, Desktop Virtualization, Retail Point of Sales Solutions, Accessories & Services.

Director-Consumer Personal Systems

Nov 2011 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

Responsible for managing P&L for Consumer Personal Systems Business Category. Driving Revenue, Margin & Market Share goals by working with cross functional teams and managing team of category & product managers.

Country Category Head - Commercial & Consumer Notebook & Mobility Business Unit

May 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for managing P&L for Mobility Business Unit within Personal Systems Category. Driving Revenue, Margin & Market Share goals by working with cross functional teams and managing team of category & product managers.

Country Category Manager - Consumer Desktops

Promoted

May 2009 – Apr 2010 · 11 mos

Responsible for managing P&L for Consumer Desktops. Driving Revenue, Margin & Market Share goals by working with cross functional teams and managing team of product managers.

Head of SMB, Channel Strategy & Marketing

May 2006 – Apr 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Develop and manage strategy to drive Mid Market Sales & Upcountry Sales for Personal Systems Group (PSG) Products in India.
Responsible for driving Sales and Sales Team in Mid Market & Upcountry space.
Develop and Execute End Customer Activities in Mid Market & Upcounty to drive growth in segment
Channel Strategy :
Develop and manage channel strategy and marketing for Commercial and Enterprise Channel in India across product categories and business units of HP (PSG, IPG & TSG).
Managing Business Partner Programs, Incentive Strategies, Certification & Education Programs, Partner Communications & Events, Partner Motivation Programs
Improving Total Customer Experience through Partners (TCE) and Total Partner Experience (TPE)

Regional Channel Sales Manager

Apr 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr

Managing Commercial Channel Business for Solution Partner Organisation (SPO) within HP. SPO was responsible for delivering sales of PCs, Printers, Servers, Storage & Networking Products through partner network.
Managing team of Regional & Area Managers.

Wipro ltd. - india

Regional Business Manager

Jan 1998 – Jan 2005 · 7 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

For Peripherals Division of Wipro Ltd and later for WeP Peripherals Ltd., Manage Revenue, Profits for North Branch. To drive business across segments of Enterprise, Corporates, Government, SMBs, Consumers through Direct and Partner Network. Managing team and developing talent.