Google announced the appointment of Karan Bajwa as managing director of Google Cloud in India.
Before joining Google Cloud, Karan Bajwa was the managing director for India and South Asia at IBM. Karan Bajwa has also worked with cloud major Microsoft as its India head. He has also worked with Cisco Systems in India and Singapore.
Karan Bajwa will be responsible for driving all revenue and go-to-market operations for Google Cloud’s solution 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 work with the local developer ecosystem and India-based Global System Integrators (GSIs).
Rick Harshman, managing director of Google Cloud in Asia Pacific said: “Karan is a veteran in the industry with a proven track record of building and growing enterprise businesses. His experience will be a tremendous asset to Google Cloud’s business, partners and customers as we embark on this next phase of growth.”
“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 organisation accelerate their digital transformation,” Karan Bajwa, managing director of Google Cloud in India, said.