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Amit Luthra joins Lenovo as MD for Infrastructure Solutions Group India
Mumbai: Lenovo has appointed Amit Luthra as MD for Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) India. In his new role, Luthra will be responsible for leading and building Lenovo ISG’s business in India.
Based in Bengaluru, he will also play a key role in advocating Lenovo’s end-to-end offerings from the pocket to the data center to the cloud and in driving customer confidence in the data center business across the market.
Luthra will also be responsible for growing the edge, hybrid cloud, High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), and storage solutions portfolio and strengthening ISG’s relationships with the partner ecosystem.
Prior to joining Lenovo, Luthra was director and GM for Dell’s storage platform solutions. He is an expert in planning and leading strategic enterprise IT businesses and building efficient teams. With over 15 years of experience, he has held various positions at some really prominent companies including Sun Microsystems, and HCL.
On joining Lenovo, Amit Luthra said, “I am thrilled to be joining Lenovo and taking charge of the ISG business in India. The industry is experiencing an exciting phase as businesses increasingly invest in long term infrastructure solutions to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. As I take the reins in this dynamic region, I hope to build on our successes and help deliver world-class cutting-edge solutions.”
“Amit joins us at the right time as we expand the ISG portfolio and commence another powerful year to help organisations and businesses transform to transcend,” shared Lenovo ISG Asia Pacific president Sumir Bhatia. “India is a critical market for us; Amit’s expertise and intelligence will help us accelerate intelligent transformation for the data-centered.”
“Amit’s appointment is an impetus to our data center and infrastructure solutions portfolio, as we continue to invest in India. Together, Lenovo is poised to become the leading everything-as-a-service partner for businesses of all sizes,” added Lenovo Group India managing director Shailendra Katyal.
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Faber-Castell India appoints Sunaina Haldar as director – marketing
With stints at Tata, SleepyCat and ADF Foods under her belt, Haldar is primed to redraw Faber-Castell’s brand story
MUMBAI: Faber-Castell India has poached Sunaina Haldar from ADF Foods, appointing her director – marketing as the German stationery brand looks to muscle up in a category that is rapidly reinventing itself around creativity and self-expression.
Haldar hit the ground running. “My first couple of weeks have been incredibly energising, understanding consumers, visiting markets, engaging with retailers and immersing myself into the world of Faber-Castell Group,” she said.
She arrives with considerable firepower. At ADF Foods, Haldar ran marketing across India and international markets for a portfolio spanning Ashoka, Aeroplane, Camel and ADF Soul. Before that, she was vice-president – marketing at direct-to-consumer mattress brand SleepyCat, where she helmed brand, content and performance marketing. Her résumé also includes a stint leading marketing, new product development and CRM for Tata SmartFoodz at Tata Consumer Products, no small proving ground.
Between corporate roles, Haldar also operated as a fractional CMO for early-stage startups, building marketing strategy and operational structures from scratch, a signal that she knows how to move fast with limited resources.
With 18 years straddling FMCG, D2C and the startup world, Haldar now takes the reins at a brand that has long owned the classroom but is clearly hungry for the living room. In a stationery market where the pencil has become a lifestyle statement, Faber-Castell has picked someone who knows exactly how to sell that story.
