India Executive Team

Ipsita Dasgupta

Managing Director, HP India Market

Gurpreet Singh Brar

VP-Innovation and Growth

Vickram Bedi

Senior Director – Personal Systems, HP India Market

Sunish Raghavan

Senior Director, Printing Systems, HP India Market

Kavit Gupta

Director, End User & Services

Shailesh Tripathi

Director - Commercial Channel

Vineet Gehani

Sr. Director, Consumer Business

Arun Kumar Isac

Director - Commercial Enterprise and Public Sector (CEP)

Ankur Goel

Senior Director, Hybrid Work Solutions, HP India

Dinesan Kochiparambath

Head Sales – Bangladesh & Sri Lanka

Parikshet Singh Tomar

Head of large Format Graphics Business, Greater Asia & IBSL

Sumita Bhatia

Director - HP Store, India

Ananda Raghuveer Naik

Director – Sales Operations, HP India Market

Prashant Jain

Senior Director, Marketing, HP India

Binu Mathew

Head - Human Resources, HP India Market

Rajeev Nair

Head- Legal, HP India

Sameer Zutshi

Sr. Finance Director, HP India Market

Kee Jen Wong

India and GA Market CSS

Vinod Bhatt

Senior Director – Supply Chain Operations, Greater Asia and India Market

Dinesh Joshi

Head- Corporate Communications, HP India Market

Sukanta Mukhopadhyay

Head - India Distribution, HP Inc. India

Ipsita Dasgupta

Managing Director, HP India Market

Ipsita Dasgupta serves as the Managing Director of HP’s India Market, comprising India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. In this role, Ipsita is responsible for all aspects of the go-to-market strategy and P&L for HP’s fastest growing market, spanning the company’s broad portfolio of products and services across commercial, consumer, and public sector.

 

Ipsita is a seasoned leader who brings a wealth of strategic business expertise to her new role at HP, with 24 years of international operating experience across various industries. She has invested more than half of her career leading P&Ls across multiple industries and the other half leading Marketing, Strategy and Growth functions for global multinationals (both B2B and B2C), with regional and global responsibilities.

 

Prior to joining HP, Ipsita served as the Senior Director of Marketing for Apple Services HQ. In this role, she led Global Synergy Marketing, External Partnership Marketing, Consumer Insights, and Market and Competitive Intelligence for Apple's subscription services.

 

Prior to Apple, Ipsita held a variety of executive positions including President of Corporate Strategy and Incubated Business at Star India, A Walt Disney Company; Chief Commercial Officer for South Asia and Greater China at General Electric Company and Managing Director of Smart Connected Communities — Emerging Markets at Cisco.

 

Ipsita holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from Columbia University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

 

She resides in Mumbai, with her husband and two children.

Ketan Patel

Managing Director, HP India Market

Ketan Patel is the Managing Director of HP’s India Market, comprising India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. As head of India market, Ketan will be responsible for HP Inc’s all business including computing, printing, 3D printing and associated services.

 

Prior to this, Ketan was based in Singapore as the Vice President & Head, Personal Systems Category. He was responsible for Greater Asia’s computing business including hardware, services and solutions. Ketan also led HP’s Commercial PC business between 2017 and 2019 for HP’s Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) region.

 

During his 15 years with HP Inc., Ketan has held several leadership positions across Category, Sales and Marketing. Ketan was the General Manager and Senior Director of Personal Systems at HP India from 2013 to 2017. Ketan holds an Electronics Engineering Degree from the University of Pune, holds a Special Management Program from IIM-Kolkata and a Graduate Diploma in International Business from Helsinki School of Economics.

Sukanta Mukhopadhyay

Head - India Distribution, HP Inc. India

Sukanta Mukhopadhyay is Head – India Distribution, HP Inc India. In this capacity he is responsible to manage HPI India indirect business across all BU between PC & Print.

 

With a rich work experience of 29+ years, he has carved a niche in channel & end customer sales. After his association with HP starting 2006, he has worked as a National sales manager taking care of Consumer PC , Print & Print Consumables.

 

After having completed his BE (Electronics) & PGDBM, Sukanta has worked in various companies, going down to the grassroot level, working with people hence understanding the actual market needs and condition, has gather a rich experience of understanding the Indian market.

 

Wanderlust has intrigued Sukanta to explore different places, has a quality to develop good relationship with people and has a hunger to learn every moment.

Prashant Jain

Senior Director, Marketing, HP India

Prashant Jain is the Senior Director for Marketing for HP’s India Market. He is responsible for all marketing initiatives across channels for HP in these markets. Prashant is leading digital marketing transformation for HP across the consumer and commercial businesses.

 

Prashant is a customer centric and innovative marketer with nearly 2 decades of experience in category management, e-commerce, digital marketing, brand management, innovation management and business development across emerging and developed markets. Prior to joining HP, he has held leadership positions in Unilever and Flipkart.

 

Prashant holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Delhi and an Electrical Engineering Degree from Dayalbagh Educational Institute.

Kavit Gupta

Director & Head for Print End User Sales and Print Services & Solutions

Kavit Gupta is responsible for GTM strategy and Sales operations execution for India region across large Enterprises, Government sector and Mid-market customers for entire Print hardware, Services & solutions portfolio. In capacity of business head for Print services & Solutions he is additionally responsible for Content Managed Services Solutions TCV and P&L across customer segments delivered both Partner led and Direct GTM motion.

 

Previous to the current role, he used to run Print Services Sales & Solutions GTM for APJ region. The role involved driving the overall MPS TCV, Solutions connect, New Services introduction across countries in APJ.

 

Have joined HP 7+ years ago from Xerox, where he managed various functions across Xerox Tech & Channels and Global Document Outsourcing business – including Enterprise Sales & Marketing roles, XPPS & Channel Programs. Also had a stint with Gartner running APJ FSI business vertical supporting CXOs execute their IT strategy.

 

Key focus for End User Print is in the areas of Government turkey projects, document security, mobility, Cloud solutions and Managed Infra Services, as well as enterprise content management and workflow solutions.

 

Graduated from Indian Institute of Foreign trade with specialization in business management and from IIPM with Executive MBA degree

Dinesan Kochiparambath

Head Sales – Bangladesh & Sri Lanka

Dinesan heads Print & Personal systems sales for Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. During his 26 years of IT industry experience, he has done various roles in corporate sales, channel sales, distribution, product management and large Business unit management. Since joining HP in 2011, he has held pivotal positions in distribution sales & channel sales in India & driven key initiatives before taking up the current role in 2019.

 

Dinesan is a B-Tech Electronics Engineering graduate from R.E.C (NIT) Calicut with a PGPX in General Management from UCLA Anderson School of Management. A big follower of kaizen, he loves to find simple solutions to complex challenges and enjoys mentoring and coaching teams.

Gurpreet Singh Brar

Senior Director, Head - Channel Sales, HP India Market

Gurpreet Brar is the Senior Director, SMB and Commercial Channel at the Printing & Personal Systems Group (PPS), HP Inc. He has the country wide responsibility for strategizing, planning and expanding the SMB business in the company and managing the commercial channel.

 

Gurpreet assumed this responsibility in December 2010 when he re-joined the company. He has been associated with HP India since 2000. In his prior role, as Country Manager – Volume Direct Business, he managed the commercial part of the business across business units – Personal Systems Group and the Technology Solutions Group. He was also responsible for the revenue generation from the key segments of IT/ITES and BFSI. He has played a significant role in driving channel expansion and marketing programs to increase market reach.

 

As a seasoned sales and marketing professional, he has worked in different domains including retail management, corporate account management as well as overall product distribution. Having started his career with Spice Telecom, Gurpreet has held senior positions at Samsung and Pertech Computers.

 

An electronics engineer, Gurpreet has had a successful career spanning over two decades in the IT and telecom industry.

Binu Mathew

Head - Human Resources, HP India Market

Binu is an extremely diligent and people centric executive with 18+ years of experience impacting the performance and profitability of many companies. She has been instrumental in providing strategic advisory support, to world class organizations in various areas of HR such as Talent management ,Total Rewards, Career development, Talent acquisition, Project management and employee engagement. She has built and led high-performing teams capable of delivering best-in-class operational performance while also driving change at a rapid pace.

 

Binu joined HP in December 2010 and has served as the Regional HR Leader for Customer support operations across APJ, she has also lead the India R&D team along with many other roles in HR projects and transformation.

 

Prior to joining HP, she has worked with GE & Accenture and was responsible for Talent Engagement, Talent Retention, Executive Capability Development, Performance Management, Culture and Diversity.

 

Binu has completed her Master’s in Business Administration specializing in Human Resources from the M.P Birla Institute of Management.

Vickram Bedi

Senior Director – Personal Systems, HP India Market

Vickram Bedi is the Senior Director of HP Inc.’s Personal Systems Business in India. This group focuses on PCs, Laptops, Tablet, Accessories and other related services for all customer segments across Home & Business.

 

Over the past 22 years, Vickram has worked in Sales and Product Management in country, regional and global roles across locations in India, Singapore, Australia, and the USA. He has exposure to various domains, including Consumer, Education, SMB, Mid Market, Corporate, Brand Stores and Distribution.

 

Vickram holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computers and a Program Certificate from Berkeley Executive Education. His major pursuits, apart from work, are racket sports, travel, historical fiction and self realisation.

 

His fundamental purpose is to help people grow and progress, in their own unique and fulfilling way.

Sameer Zutshi

Sr. Finance Director, HP India Market

Sameer Zutshi is the Sr. Finance Director at HP India. He has responsibility for the finance function which includes accounting and reporting, analysis, business insights and partnership and compliance. His team works with business to drive profitable growth across the entire portfolio of the group – computing, imaging and printing products and solutions. Sameer has been with HP since December 2010.

 

Prior to Joining HP, Sameer worked for companies such as Microsoft and Nokia in Controller positions supporting the business and in geographies such as India, China and Australia.

 

He has helped to drive revenue growth, market share and profitability, align business performance to balanced metrics like profitability and cash flow, partnered on various efficiency initiatives like reducing inventory days, negotiating lower costs with suppliers, driving profitable growth and providing decision support analysis to business by leading high performance teams. He has also presented to customers, been a speaker at the CFO Summit of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and a panelist at CII’s National Seminar on Office Automation and Imaging Industry.

 

Sameer holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi, is an ACA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a CPA from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Rajeev Nair

Associate General Counsel, India & APJ Personal Systems

Rajeev Nair is the Associate General Counsel, India and APJ Personal Systems. His dual role involves legal support to HP India’s business as Country Counsel, and Personal Systems Asia Pacific & Japan as BU Counsel. Rajeev joined HP in January 2012 as Country Counsel – India, and assumed the current role effective November 1, 2015. Prior to joining HP, Rajeev was the head of Legal and Compliance in HSBC’s insurance venture in India as Vice President – Legal & Compliance. He was previously Legal Counsel at Unilever and also worked with ING. Rajeev practiced law as an Advocate before the High Court of Kerala during the initial 6 years of his career.

Vikas Singh

Senior Director – Customer Support & Services, Greater Asia & India Market

Vikas is leading the Customer Support for Greater Asia & India Markets. The main purpose of this organization is to deliver world class in country service to customers on time, with high quality and low customer effort.

 

Prior to this role, Vikas was managing the product quality for APJ markets to define and operationalize strategic quality programs to enhance the customer experience, reduce product failures and optimize warranty cost. He has also led the APJ Contact centers and drove various transformation initiative around digitization, social media support, customer experience and cost optimization projects.

 

Vikas and his team has won various awards and prizes from various External & Internal organization like Stevie, CX Asia etc and he has also been awarded as 50 Most Impactful Customer Experience Professional.

 

Vikas is a Civil Engineer and holds a master’s degree in physics. He completed his MBA in Marketing from Delhi and is a certified Six Sigma Master / Black Belt.

Ananda Raghuveer Naik

Director – Sales Operations, HP India Market

Ananda Raghuveer Naik (Anand) is the Director Sales Operations for India. Anand, in his role is responsible for Customer, Sales & Partner Experience, along with improving Sales Productivity across India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh markets.

 

Anand is an engineer with ~ 20 years of work experience in various areas of Delivery and operations across IT, ITES industry. He has spent over 16 years in HP working across Country/region roles and held various roles in Contact Centre operations, Service Delivery Management, ODM Management, APJ Warranty Management. His most recent role was in Singapore, where he had the opportunity to setup and manage the DaaS Service Delivery organization for APJ.

Vinod Bhatt

Senior Director – Supply Chain Operations, Greater Asia and India Market

Vinod Bhatt is the Senior Director responsible for Supply Chain management at the Greater Asia and India markets with 25+ years of Industry experience managing Supply Chain operations across FMCG, Consumer Electronics, Telecommunication and Hi-Tech industry assuming supply chain leadership roles at Unilever, LG Electronics, Nortel Networks and HP. In his current role, Vinod leads the Supply Chain organization at HP assuming ownership for tactical and strategic accountabilities of overall Order-to-Cash cycle managing end-to-end operational execution, demand and supply planning, designing and implementation of supply chain solutions, service delivery excellence, logistics network optimization, Customs and Trade compliance and cost optimization.

 

Vinod has a strong passion for Operational Excellence, Customer Centricity and Sustainability with the aspiration for transforming the Supply Chain function into a competitive advantage for sustainable business growth whilst delivering best-in-class customer experience through continuous innovation, process improvements and challenging status quo. 

 

Vinod holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with MBA in Supply Chain Management from Mumbai University.

Arun Kumar Isac

Director - Commercial Enterprise and Public Sector (CEP)

As the head of Commercial Enterprise and Public sector (CEP) organization, Arun leads HP India’s go to market team for named accounts and public sector. The CEP team for India market focuses on the large and medium enterprise accounts and public sector for the unified portfolio of personal systems, print and services offered by HP.

 

Arun is an accomplished leader with more than twenty-two years of industry experience out of which more than ten years is in various leadership roles. He has to his credit a multifaceted career with an excellent track record of delivering growth for organizations and being a transformation leader. Arun has led sales teams in different segments such as personal systems, data center products, infrastructure & application services and channel organizations.  

 

Prior to the current responsibility, Arun was a zonal leader for end user personal systems team. He has also managed the notebook portfolio as the country product manager earlier in his career with HP. Outside HP, Arun was the country head for channel and zonal business head for Fujitsu India. He also had a brief stint in the consumer electronics industry while working with Philips India Ltd. 

 

Arun is an alumnus of Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship and a graduate in business management from Christ College, Bangalore University. He is passionate about lawn tennis, agriculture and mentoring students and upcoming business leaders.

Shailesh Tripathi

Director - Commercial Channel

Shailesh Tripathi leads the Commercial Channel business for Printing & Personal Systems Group (PPS), HP Inc. for India.

 

He has the responsibility for strategizing, planning & expanding not only SMB but over all commercial channel business and managing the commercial channel growth.  In his leadership HP India has become clear #1 SMB Brand in India market share.  His One HP approach and vast channel experience is well appreciated among HP team members & channel partners.

 

He has been associated with HP India since 2007. In his prior role, as National Manager, managed the commercial channel and has played a significant role in driving channel expansion and SMB coverage.

As a seasoned sales professional, he has worked in different domains including retail management, Consumer and commercial channel Management, Product category , as well as Distribution business. Shailesh has held senior positions at HCL Infosystem , Reliance Infocom and Lenovo in the past.

An electronics engineer and Management professional in Marketing, Shailesh has had a successful career spanning over two plus decades in the IT and telecom industry.

Vineet Gehani

Sr. Director, Consumer Business

Vineet Gehani leads the Consumer sales team responsible for developing and executing sales strategies for HP’s business growth from the retail and e-commerce channels – across Personal Systems and Print product portfolio. HP’ clear market leadership across the consumer products portfolio in the India market is a strong testimony of the passion for customer experience, retail excellence and the commitment to deliver the best products and solutions to consumers, working in strong collaboration with the consumer channel partners across the length and breadth of the country.  Vineet has a proven track record of developing high performance teams, that maximize the existing opportunities as well as develop future growth frameworks and innovate new business models.

 

In a career spanning over two and a half decades , Vineet has worked in various business and P&L leadership roles in companies like Castrol, Madura Coats, Samsung and Xerox India – other than his 10 years at HP – delivering consistent revenue growths profitably and growing market shares. Vineet holds an Engineering degree from M.S University, Vadodara and a Masters degree in Business Administration from IISWBM, Kolkata University.

Sunish Raghvan

Senior Director, Printing Systems, HP India Market

Sunish Raghavan is the Senior Director of HP’s Printing Systems for India Market. As head of India market, he is responsible for HP Inc’s overall print business and leads HP in providing the best-in-class Home and Office printing solutions for their users. 

 

Sunish joined HP Inc. in 2007 and started off as the India PSG Bud Desk Manager and soon advanced to the position of Country Head, Commercial PC Category.  During his 20 years with HP Inc., Sunish has held several leadership positions at HP including Director-End user Sales Print for HP India. Prior to this, he was the Director – Distribution Sales, Strategy & Business Planning.  

 

During his career at HP, he has driven various campaigns in print such as the launch of HP LaserJet Tank in March 2022 and has helped in securing profitable growth while playing a crucial role in helping the brand retain their market leadership position in the print category across the country. 

 

He is deeply committed to the work around sustainability and help Indian SMBs and in assisting them to make investments in digital and to further revive their businesses in the coming few years.  

Parikshet Singh Tomar

Head of large Format Graphics Business, Greater Asia & IBSL

Parikshet Singh Tomar is responsible for the Large Format Graphics Business for HP Inc for the Greater Asia and India region.  In this role, he provides leadership and directions for growth for the Large Format Graphics  Business which addresses the Design, Signage and Display segments, understanding the needs of the customers at each country level and then putting the strategy in place to address those needs. He is also responsible for meeting all key financial metrics for the business – Revenue, GM and Market share.   

 

Parikshet has been in HP for over 24+ years now and has had various assignments in Sales and Category management for the PC, Printer and Supplies businesses giving a very strong understanding and well-rounded experience across all HPI businesses. He has done Country, Region and Worldwide roles and managed and has deep understanding of all Go To Market as well as understanding of customer segments across Consumer, Mid Market as well as Enterprise space. His last assignment was the Global Head of Distribution Strategy and International Partner Business where he was responsible for managing in terms of Strategic account management for the Global Top 4 International Commercial partners as well as International Business partners addressing the needs of our large enterprise customers.

 

Parikshet prior joining to HP has spent 6 years in organizations like TATA, Carrier Aircon (United Technologies Group Subsidiary, USA) , and 3M India( Subsidiary of 3M,USA) with job experience spanning Direct/Indirect Sales, Channel management and Key Account management across all customer segments (Enterprise, SMB and Consumer).

 

Parikshet holds a  MBA degree with specialisation in marketing from a premier university.

Ankur Goel

Senior Director, Hybrid Work Solutions, HP India

In his current role at HP, Ankur is responsible for leading the company’s growth and revenue share in India. 

 

With 21+ years of experience in general management, sales and channel development in the UC industry, Ankur has a proven track record in transforming business and leading teams to new levels of growth and profitability. 

 

In the past, Ankur has held Executive and Sales positions with several major organizations including Qlik and Cisco. He has been instrumental in building Poly India team and business over the past nine years.