Ganesan Leads Business Services for Retail, CPG, T&T and Pharma domains in IBM for India & South Asia markets. Ganesan is a Partner & Trusted Advisor to the C-suite in IBM’s clients in addressing their business challenges thru Cognitive, Digital & Cloud solutions . He leads the sector and carries overall accountability for solutions development, delivery, client value addition, and business growth.

Ganesan has over 22 years of experience applying automation, design thinking, data led decisions, cognitive & digital technologies across businesses to deliver transformation in business performance and realization of benefits from transformation programs

Ganesan started his career in Lean Six Sigma With Whirlpool & GE and executed several high impact business performance improvement projects. He then moved into a consulting career leading enterprise level transformation programs integrating various methodologies, tools and technology solutions. His consulting experience included developing target operating Models & implementing business transformation roadmaps which led to superior customer experience, step change in operational efficiency and alignment of operations to strategy. He then went on to set up Analytics & Decision Support Centre of Excellence (CoE) within Tesco’s global hub in Bangalore, enabling data driven decisions across various functions of omnichannel retailing.

Prior to joining IBM, Ganesan led the P&L of Analytics & Insights unit for Retail, CPG, Travel, Transportation & Hospitality verticals in TCS. He holds an Engineering degree from NIT,Trichy and certifications in Lean Six Sigma, Project Management & Advanced Analytics.

He is based out of Bangalore and travels extensively to serve in the advisory capacity to CxOs of marquee clients of IBM.