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Lenovo announces key leadership changes across India operations
MUMBAI: Lenovo is pressing refresh on its India leadership playbook, making a series of senior appointments aimed at tightening alignment across its enterprise and consumer businesses and accelerating its AI-led growth ambitions.
In a key move, Amit Luthra has been appointed One Lenovo commercial leader, a role that brings together the company’s enterprise-facing portfolios under a unified strategy. Luthra will assume the position from March 1, 2026, after more than three-and-a-half years of scaling Lenovo India’s Infrastructure Solutions Group.
In his expanded remit, Luthra will work across Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group, Infrastructure Solutions Group and Solutions and Services Group, with a focus on driving integrated growth across hardware, services and solutions.
On the consumer side, Kaman Chawla has been named Director of the Consumer Business. Chawla will lead Lenovo’s PCs and smart devices portfolio in India. She joins from HP Inc., where she most recently headed the Consumer Personal Systems business across India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, bringing more than 25 years of industry experience to the role.
Strengthening its enterprise leadership further, Lenovo has also elevated Srinivas Rao as Managing Director of the Infrastructure Solutions Group in India, signalling the company’s continued focus on data centre, cloud and enterprise infrastructure opportunities.
Commenting on the appointments Lenovo India vice president and managing director Shailendra Katyal said the leadership changes reflect Lenovo’s intent to sharpen execution across both enterprise and consumer segments while helping customers and partners navigate the next phase of AI-driven transformation.
With these moves, Lenovo appears to be stitching its India operations closer together betting that a more integrated leadership structure will help it compete harder across devices, infrastructure and services in a market that is rapidly embracing AI at scale.
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Time brings TIME100 Next franchise to India with Reliance
List to spotlight 100 emerging leaders, gala set for December 2026 in Mumbai.
MUMBAI: It’s about time India’s next wave got a global spotlight and now, it’s on the list. New York-headquartered Time is expanding its TIME100 Next franchise to India, partnering with Reliance Industries Limited to launch TIME100 Next India, its first international extension of the rising leaders platform. The announcement was made at the Time100 Gala in New York by Jessica Sibley and Nita Mukesh Ambani, signalling a strategic push to tap into India’s growing influence across sectors.
The India edition will recognise 100 emerging leaders from the country and the global Indian diaspora, spanning business, science, sports, arts and social impact. The list will be curated by Time’s editorial team and published online, continuing the franchise’s focus on identifying individuals shaping the future.
The initiative will culminate in a gala event scheduled for December 2026 at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, anchoring the platform within India’s cultural and business ecosystem.
TIME’s broader Time100 franchise has steadily expanded its global footprint since 2021 through events and impact-led initiatives. Executives noted that India’s growing pool of influential voices and innovators made it a natural next step for the platform’s international ambitions.
For Reliance, the partnership aligns with its broader push to support emerging talent and ideas on a global stage. For Time, it marks a timely bet on India not just as a market, but as a talent engine shaping the next chapter of global leadership.
