Soumitra Limaye — CEO
Soumitra is the Global Leader for IBM Service Partners & Service Engineering Lab. Leads a global team of managing directors working with Global Systems Integrators, ensuring global responsibility of Sales and Technology teams driving success with our GSIs and winning with our joint clients through the use of IBM AI & Hybrid Cloud Technologies. He architects and operationalizes IBM’s partner ecosystem, ensuring every partner can build, sell, and deliver on technology, accelerating revenue and profit growth. A technologist and business strategist, Soumitra is focused on winning the ‘enterprise’ through high-impact partnerships, and IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI technologies, driving impact at scale. His mission encompasses co-creation, de-risking delivery, and accelerating deals with partners globally. With 22 years of experience, including 20 at IBM, Soumitra has led global roles across Digital Engineering transformation, Developer Advocacy, Professional Services, and Product Support, with P&L responsibilities. His innovative approach has resulted in 16 patents, several first-of-a-kind solutions, and differentiated go-to-market strategies that consistently deliver exceptional client outcomes. A passionate evangelist of DEI, Soumitra was the first IBM Global Executive to be recognized as an IBM Be Equal Champion, and serves on IBM’s Women Executive Council (WEC). A prolific speaker, he leads with a collaborative and deeply people-centric approach.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in SaaS and enterprise technology ecosystems.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 21 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Enterprise Ai
- Sales Leadership
- Business Strategy
- Strategic Partnerships
- Thought Leadership
- Developer Advocacy
- Platform Engineering
- Business Innovation
- Professional Services
Career Highlights
- 22 years of experience with 20 years at IBM.
- Innovative leader with 16 patents and first-of-a-kind solutions.
- Passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion.
Work Experience
IBM
Global Leader, Service Partners & Service Engineering Lab Leader (4 mos)
Director, Worldwide Ecosystem Engineering Leader (1 yr 4 mos)
Director, Global System Integrator (GSI) Lab, Worldwide Ecosystem (2 yrs 8 mos)
Director, Digital Technology Lab, IBM Software Labs (2 yrs 9 mos)
Lab Leader - Digital Technology Labs, Digital Platform Engineering & Developer Advocacy (10 mos)
Program Director, Client Success - AP & GCG Lab Services, AVP & Support (2 yrs 6 mos)
Senior Manager, Client Success (1 yr 8 mos)
Manager - Websphere Portal, IBM WCM and SmartCloud for Social Business, IBM Collaboration Evangelist (3 yrs 2 mos)
Project Manager - Websphere Portal and Lotus Workplace Web Content Management (1 yr 1 mo)
Staff Software Engineer - WCM Lead (3 yrs 2 mos)
Sales Panther
Advisory Board (5 yrs 6 mos)
Tech Mahindra
Technical Associate (2 yrs)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
at Oman - ISG
at RYK Junior College