Lula Mohanty
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Managing Partner, IBM Consulting Asia Pacific and China
Lula Mohanty is Managing Partner, IBM Consulting Asia Pacific and China (APAC). She is responsible for strategy, execution, delivering client value, and business performance of IBM’s consulting, digital agency, business transformation and cloud transformation business. She also oversees IBM’s ecosystem and partnership agenda.
In her more than 25 years at IBM, Lula has undertaken a number of regional and international assignments, leading cross-cultural teams and working with clients around the globe from India and China to the US and Europe. She has been instrumental in driving digital transformation across large enterprise programs; managed IBM’s markets and delivery centres, including setting up and running the services delivery centre in the Philippines and leading one of the largest delivery centres in IBM, in India. Lula has also been behind the acceleration and development of new services offerings and talent programmes, especially targeting women leadership.
Lula is a member of the IBM Chairman’s acceleration and performance team which is responsible for IBM’s strategy, growth, and transformation. She is also an IBM Industry Diamond for Banking and is the executive champion of the IBM Consulting APAC Diversity Council where she is hands-on in driving initiatives that raise awareness and advocacy of inclusion of all kinds, especially gender diversity.
Outside of work, Lula is associated with a non-government organization for empowerment of women. She is an avid reader and does Indian classical dance.