Ganesh Ramachandran

Ganesh Ramachandran

Executive Director - IT APAC
Ingram Micro

Ganesh is a digital transformation leader, who has helped set-up, grow and turn around businesses. He brings around 30 years of expertise across P & L management, management consulting and technology transformation. He has been a part of the CIO Power List for 2020,2021 and 2022, featured in CDO Magazine’s 2021 Global Pharmaceutical List, been awarded the Best CIO in 2020 and 21 and the CXO Health excellence award in 2021

With an in-depth exposure to best practices across all 3 levers that drive businesses - process,technology & people, he has helped clients evolve technology strategies to drive their business vision and transform their business, evaluate and extract business value from their technology investments. He has worked across the US, the Middle East, South East Asia and India.

In his current role as the APAC CIO for Ingram Micro Limited, Ganesh helps deploy digital technologies to drive sustainable profitable growth and capitalize on new opportunities and needs that have emerged with the changed market situation. Prior to Ingram Micro, Ganesh was the CIO for Alkem Labs, India’s 5th largest pharma company where he led digital transformation and launched a patient engagement platform for doctors Connect2 Clinic. He also lead value advisory services for Consumer Products and Retail verticals for SAP India and was also the Managing Partner for Wipro Consulting services across India and the Middle East, wherein he doubled the business over a 5 year period. He led Wipro’s Healthcare business development for the SouthWest of the US, was the managing consultant for Wipro’s consulting business in Western India, was the sales manager for Bangalore city for Pepsi and the Marketing lead for direct marketing of credit cards for Standard Chartered Bank for India.

Title

Enabling Successful Digital Transformation


Overview

The session is aligned with the conference theme ‘Building Tomorrow’s Organisations’, especially with organizations, be they legacy or new, looking to leverage the power of digital to meet ever evolving customer needs in an agile, effective manner. It will broadly cover the following:

Why Digital transformation

  • ● Digital transformation challenges
  • ● Critical Success factors needed to overcome challenges
  • ● Evolving role of the Technology teams in delivering successful transformation