Karan Sachdeva
Global Business Development Leader, Strategic Partnerships
As the Global Business Development Leader, Karan works to drive focus and progress across IBM’s largest strategic partners targeting joint growth with IBM Software and Technology offerings. He works to rationalize the portfolio, prioritize key offerings, drive joint development, launch and engage with customers to define new markets for IBM and the partner. Karan joined Global Strategic Partnerships mission in 2022 based in Armonk NY. Before his Global role Karan was leading the Watson and AI business for Asia Pacific based in Singapore where he delivered sustainable growth for the business by helping and enabling teams to win strategic deals. Karan’s passion is grounded in partnering with clients to understand and align corporate strategy imperatives to AI, automation, sustainability and other innovative technologies.