Former IBM Executive Karan Bajwa chaired as Google Cloud India MD

Google has chaired tech industry veteran Karan Bajwa to drive its cloud business in the country, appointing him Managing Director of Google Cloud India.

As Google Cloud MD, Bajwa will be responsible for driving revenue and go-to-market operations for Google Cloud’s extensive solution portfolio that includes Google Cloud Platform and G Suite.

Google Cloud’s field sales, partner and customer engineering organisations in India will also report to him, and he will advise Google Cloud’s continued work with local developer ecosystem and India-based Global System Integrators (GSIs).

 “Karan is a veteran in the industry with a proven track record of building and growing successful enterprise businesses. His experience will be a tremendous asset to Google Cloud’s business, our partners and our customers as we embark on this next phase of growth,” said Rick Harshman, Managing Director Google Cloud in Asia Pacific.

Google Cloud India has been hiring rapidly over the past couple of years to expand its footprint in the country which is a key region for the growth of its cloud business.

In September, then Google Cloud India head Nitin Bawankule had quit the company to join Star India as head of ad sales.

With a vast experience of three decades of leadership experience, Bajwa joins Google Cloud from IBM where he served as India and South Asia managing director. Prior to IBM, he worked with Microsoft for nine years, his last role being managing director for the company’s operations in India. He has also worked with Cisco Systems in India and Singapore.

 “I’m very excited about this new challenge and I look forward to extending Google’s global momentum in India. Leveraging cloud computing technology to modernize and scale for growth is on the agenda of almost every enterprise CEO and CIO and Google Cloud is committed to help every organization accelerate their digital transformation,” Bajwa said.