Sandip Patel

Sandip Patel is the Managing Director of IBM India Pvt. Ltd. and General Manager of IBM India/SA. He is responsible for all strategic and operational matters related to IBM's sales, marketing, services and delivery operations in the region, including Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Additionally, he directs and enables India’s capabilities across IBM’s global missions, global centers of excellence, research and innovation labs. Prior to this, he was General Manager for the Insurance industry at IBM. In this role, he had responsibility for IBM's business across all brands in the Insurance industry globally. Sandip has also served as the President of Aetna International where he had full P&L responsibility for the international businesses at Aetna with operations in Americas, Europe, Middle East, China and South East Asia. He organically doubled the business over a three-year period, establishing a sustainable regional model to grow regional businesses with locally relevant solutions, and globally co-sourced shared IT and services capability. He also established a foundation for a Health IT Services business in emerging markets with a focus on population health management. Prior to this role, he served as the General Manager for IBM’s Global Business Services division for India / South Asia. Before that, he served as a partner in various leadership roles at IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Coopers & Lybrand. Early in his professional career, he practiced as a Chartered Accountant in India. Sandip has managed and participated in a variety of multi-disciplinary organization-wide transformation projects, addressing enterprise strategy, global expansion, operations and technology transformation, and culture change, in different regions around the world. He has earned a MBA and a MS in Management Information Systems from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant in India.