Name:
Ramkumar Balakrishnan
Company:
Redington Gulf
Designation:
President, Value-Added Distribution Business
Years in the company: 10
Years in the IT channel industry: 16
Biggest achievement till date: Helping channel transform at different times either through skilling or through augmenting investments on their behalf. Constantly helping channel win business on newer technologies
Your mentor in the industry: Raj Shankar, MD, Redington Gulf
Company focus for 2015: Software-defined everything and security
Technologies to drive regional channel growth: Hyper converged infrastructure and software-defined everything
Issues in the regional channel: Investment in training and skills
Key to grow profitably: Differentiation
