Karan Bajwa succeeds Vanitha Narayanan as new IBM India MD

BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM today announced the appointment of Karan Bajwa as Managing Director of IBM India, succeeding Vanitha Narayanan who has moved to the Chairman's role of IBM India now.

Karan will be responsible for all strategic and operational matters related to IBM's sales, marketing, services and delivery operations in the India/SA region, including Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

He will lead IBM’s partnership with clients for a cloud and cognitive led digital transformation of their businesses.

Prior to joining IBM in 2016 as Executive for Strategy and Transformation in the Asia Pacific region, Karan was the Managing Director, Microsoft India where, besides leading the India business for the company, he also the led the Cloud Transition and the Ecosystem engagement. Karan is not new to IBM also, as he worked for five years in Singapore from 2001 - 2005, leading IBM’s networking business.

While Chairman, Vanitha will play a critical role in enabling capabilities across IBM’s global missions in India, global centers of excellence, research and innovation labs. IBM will rely on her leadership to engage and further strengthen the Government and Regulatory affairs initiatives.

Both, Karan and Vanitha will report to Randy Walker, Chairman, IBM Asia Pacific.