Our Company and Culture

Our Vision

At Lenovo, our vision is that Lenovo will create personal devices more people are inspired to own, a culture more people aspire to join and an enduring, trusted business that is well respected around the world. This vision guides us in pursuit of our mission to become one of the world's great personal technology companies.

We will accomplish this through:

• Personal Computers: Lead in PCs and be respected for our product innovation and quality.
• Convergence: Lead the industry with an ecosystem of devices, services, applications and content for people to seamlessly connect to people and web content.
• Culture: Become recognised as one of the best, most trusted and most well-respected companies to work for and do business with.

Our Culture

Our culture defines us … it's our DNA. We call it the Lenovo Way and it's the values we share and the business practices we deploy. It's how we address our day-to-day commitments. The Lenovo Way is embodied in the statement: We do what we say and we own what we do.

That culture also drives how we work every day, utilizing what we call the 5 P's:

• We PLAN before we pledge.
• We PERFORM as we promise.
• We PRIORITISE the company first.
• We PRACTICE improving every day.
• We PIONEER new ideas.

Our culture is what has enabled us to consistently raise the bar on delivering break-through innovations, award-winning designs and strong financial performance.

Our People

At Lenovo, our people share a common aspiration to be the very best. Whether serving our customers, working together as a team or contributing to the community, we are working to build a unique company delivering unparalleled products created and supported by people who represent a wealth of cultures and experiences. Our strength lies in this diversity. And every day, on every project, we are creating a new language for inclusion and respect for others. We are dedicated to fostering an environment that encourages entrepreneurism and ownership. A workplace where people's talents can be challenged and their efforts recognised and rewarded.

Amar Babu

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific at Lenovo

My priority is to drive the next phase of growth for Lenovo. I currently holds the title of Chief Operating Officer for Lenovo Asia Pacific and I am also the Chairman of Lenovo India. My focus is on product diversification, especially in smart, connected devices, while still maintaining the company's leadership in PCs. I was previously Managing Director of Lenovo India, during which time the subsidiary saw phenomenal growth in the PC market. Market share grew from 8.3% to 19.8% in less than a decade, and the company became a strong contender in the smartphone and tablet categories.

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Amy Wong

AP Consumer Marketing Director

I have always been fascinated by brands and how they shape our perspectives, change our behaviors, and influence our decisions. I’m a proud Canadian but my passion for building brands has led me to some exciting places including New York, Beijing, and Hong Kong. After 15 years living abroad, I now have experience working in global and regional roles, commercial and consumer sectors, mature and emerging markets, and in-house and creative agencies. My area of expertise is in technology, but I’m an equal opportunity marketer as long as it helps make people’s lives easier.

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Bhaskar Choudhuri

Marketing Director India

I am a passionate marketer who believes in creating an ideal ecosystem of agencies for impact and relies on creativity to overcome constraints and deliver results. I am a firm believer in nurturing teams and creating future leaders and have a proven track record of successfully launching new brands and reinvigorating existing brands and businesses. My specialties are innovation, brand positioning and strategy, brand design, new product launches, culture and P&L ownership. I remain curious about the discipline of marketing and I would love to teach full time, someday!

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Charis Jamieson

AP Commercial Marketing Director

I’m the Commercial Marketing Director at Lenovo for Asia Pacific covering Partner and End User marketing in Global, Relationship and SMB segments. I’m aware that digital disruption is happening in the market with over 21% year-on year growth in Asia Pacific of active social mobile users. I’m passionate to progress Lenovo’s journey of digital first in the Commercial space. I hold a BEng Honours Degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and hail from Scotland, a country I love passionately. I now live with my husband in Sydney and enjoy the slightly better climate! I’m an experienced Marketing Director with a demonstrated history of working in IT industry. Skilled in Advertising, Enterprise Software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Go-to-market Strategy, and Strategic Partnerships.

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Con Terzis

Commercial Inside Sales Manager, ANZ

A Lenovo veteran of 12 years since the PC acquisition from IBM, and there has never been a dull moment. Throughout my time in sales I have seen a lot of change and it is this ever changing market that continues to excite me about working for a leading technology company. In my current role as Commercial Inside Sales Manager for ANZ, my extensive experience with both end user and channel partners allows me to guide my team on the path to delivering innovative products and solutions to our customers.

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Danielle Uskovic

Head of Digital Marketing Asia Pacific

I’m a Digital Marketing aficionado with a passion for all things innovation. I have lots of experience across business-to-business and consumer sectors leading award winning sales and marketing teams for ASX 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Currently, I am head of Digital Marketing for Lenovo Asia Pacific. I’m passionate about innovation and the difference technology can make in our lives. It’s an exciting time to be working in digital and seeing the impact it is having on businesses everywhere.

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Daniel Tan

Executive Director, Global Accounts

Daniel leads Global 500 clientele data centre group business for Asia Pacific Japan and China. His responsibility includes customer satisfaction, development, deployment of end to end and efficient go-to-market model. Daniel is a technology industry veteran who has served two stints each at enterprise IT giants Lenovo and IBM over 20 years, Daniel brings with him vast sales and operations expertise and extensive networks across Asia. He has managed successful relationships with customers and channel partners in diverse industry verticals such as Manufacturing, Retail, Financial Services, Government, Research, Media and Telecommunications. Prior to his current role, Daniel led strategic alliances for Lenovo’s enterprise business in Asia Pacific, and used to manage relationship with key alliance partners like SAP, Nutanix, Red Hat and VMware to maximise joint opportunities with these fellow IT giants. Daniel served as the ASEAN leader for Lenovo’s enterprise business where he was responsible for the overall management of Lenovo’s x86 business in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He joined Lenovo in October 2014 upon Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 business.

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Dilip Bhatia

Chief Customer Officer

As Lenovo’s Chief Customer Officer, I drive the company to achieve its goal of being the leader in the PC, smart device, data center and mobility space. Given the size and complexity of Lenovo, I lead this effort by focusing on five key areas – better understanding our customers through data integration and analysis, a robust voice of the customer program which includes both transactional and relational listening posts, building the customer voice into our design efforts, closing the loop with customers, and driving two-way conversations with our customers across all channels. To support these key areas, I’m pleased to lead a customer-focused transformation effort designed to integrate purposeful leadership, engaged employees and brand alignment into the Lenovo culture. My personal credo: Know thy customer!

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Eric Lai

Executive Director and General Manager of Asia Pacific

I have over two decades of experience with leading technology companies, a decade each with IBM and Lenovo. In my current role, I am the Executive Director and General Manager of Lenovo Asia Pacific. I focus on the global account business for Lenovo. This makes me responsible for Lenovo’s Top Global 500 corporate customers across China, ANZ, ASEAN, HTK (Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea), India and Japan. I drive growth for Lenovo’s global customer segments in this region by ensuring the delivery of a consistent customer experience across Asia Pacific. One of my key initiatives has been to enable Asia Pacific Headquartered customers to implement standardised IT equipment (from PC and smart device to data centre equipment) across the world.

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Hassan Baickdeli

Mobility & Smart Devices Lead Australia & New Zealand

Leading the Strategy for Mobility and Smart across ANZ for Lenovo, it’s pretty safe to say that I LOVE bleeding edge technology, but what I love more than that is leveraging our products and solutions to deliver meaningful outcomes to our customers, alliances and partners. There’s no doubt that compute in all its forms is changing and converging at fast rate and will continue to evolve in only ways we can imagine with the emergence of IoT and AI. I have had the pleasure of delivering key projects such as world firsts in Next-Gen In-flight entertainment, thrilling and immersive experiences connecting brands to broader audiences via VR as well as helping key global organisations change their concept of compute to adapt agility in and out of the office which just a few years ago would have been but a dream.

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Ian Redmile

Regional Sales Manager Enterprise & Public

Over 20 years experience in the ICT industry based in Sydney since 2003. Proven success as a senior strategic individual contributor plus as committed and energised sales leader. Global experience in building & leading sales teams both directly & indirectly. Cross functionally & cross culturally. Results driven and people focused. Strong believer in inspirational leadership to drive & motivate self and team. Passionate in creating an environment people strive to deliver their best results whilst enjoying what they do in an ethical positive manner. Key skills in strategic development of new business leveraging relationships from CxO level down. A strong IT commercial background. Experience in broad range of segments and markets, dealing with, and selling to Global, Large Corporate, SME, in addition to managing key Channel Partners eco systems. A consultative, customer first focused approach delivering the best outcome for stakeholders driven by and based on customer requirements & business outcomes/goals.

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Ivan Cheung

AP COO, CAP Regional General Manager and Vice President

As Executive Director and Regional General Manager of Central Asia Pacific (CAP) at Lenovo, I head up the company’s operations in over 13 markets across the region including ASEAN, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Korea. I've been a part of the team growing Lenovo from a Chinese based company to a truly global player. Based in Hong Kong, I lead business operations, strategy, sales and marketing for Lenovo’s end-to-end solution and services portfolio across PCs, mobile devices, and data centre infrastructure. In CAP, we have coined a phrase, "different collaborates better", and we're always looking to work with the next generation of customers, collaborators and talented people.

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Joe Liu

Director, Acquisition Sales

Hi, I am Joe Liu, head of a Global Acquisition team across AP. I responsible for building global and regional account teams to serve key Global customers. An energetic and engaging sales leader with a highly successful track record and recognized builder of high performing sales teams. I am passionate and believe how relationship business that can create mutual success, able to bring complex teams together to achieve growth and penetrating new markets and providing dynamic solutions to client’s needs.

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Ken Wong

AP Senior Vice President and President

I lead Lenovo’s rapid growth markets in Asia Pacific across PCs, mobile devices, and data centre infrastructure. This includes the diverse markets of Australia, New Zealand, SEA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India and Japan. I have extensive experience over the last two decades managing complex geographies in technology leadership roles at global, regional and country levels across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Latin America, as well as APAC. Responsibilities include strategy and operations, product operations and services, sales and marketing. I enjoy turning data insights and analysis into a powerful strategic direction that has seen Lenovo deliver exceptional innovation. Most recently, in the laptop market.

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Laxman Bhatia

Software Defined Data Center Leader, Asia Pacific, Data Center Group

Laxman is the SDDC solutions lead with a focus on hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud for Lenovo Data Center Group in Asia Pacific. In this capacity, Laxman works with prospects and customers to embrace, plan and transition into the next phase of data center transformation. Laxman has over 20 years industry experience and joins Lenovo from Dell EMC, where he most recently headed up Global Cloud and SDDC Sales for Dell’s enterprise and alliances business. Prior to this, Laxman held data center leadership positions at Microsoft and Cisco Systems. Laxman holds a MBA from University of Chicago and a diploma in Data Science and Big Data from MIT.

Martand Srivastava

Regional Manager - APAC , Global Accounts at Lenovo

Martand is a seasoned business leader with over a decade of leadership experience in driving top and bottom line for leading consulting and technology firms in various sales and strategy roles. Martand has successfully set up new business streams for multiple fortune 500 firms (Dun & Bradstreet, Agilent Technologies, Lenovo) across Asia Pacific and helped them expand with new products. Martand also used to head global growth strategy for a USD 4 Billion technology major. Currently he is based in Hong Kong and leads the financial services vertical across Asia Pacific for the fortune 500 clientele of Lenovo Data Centre group

Matt Codrington

Managing Director of Australia & New Zealand

As Managing Director of Lenovo (Australia & New Zealand) Pty Ltd I am responsible for Lenovo’s business within the ANZ region across all Government, Commercial, Consumer and Emerging PC+ segments. I joined Lenovo in 2006 in Singapore at the AP Centre of Excellence and in 2009 was appointed Director of Operations (COO), Japan where I spent four years before returning to Australia, where I was appointed as Managing Director for Lenovo ANZ in 2013. Prior to joining Lenovo I worked in a number of large global IT vendors in various Product Marketing and Sales roles over 10 years. I am a non-executive Board member of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the International CEO Forum Group.

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Nick Reynolds

Chief Marketing Officer Asia Pacific

As Chief Marketing Officer for Asia-Pacific at Lenovo, I am responsible for marketing PCs, tablets, smartphones, enterprise servers and storage, in a diverse and fast growing region. I’m an energetic and highly driven marketing leader who embraces innovation and has a deep understanding of the customer-led, digital transformation happening in the current market. I joined Lenovo in 2007, bringing with me a wealth of expertise from both sales and marketing roles built at several FORTUNE 500 companies including Dell, Apple, Gateway and SABRE.

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Noriaki Noto

Marketing Director Japan

Experienced Marketing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industry. I’m a strong marketing professional skilled in Advertising, Enterprise Software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Go-to-market Strategy, and Strategic Partnerships. Currently I’m head of marketing for Lenovo Japan.

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Poornima Matthan

Country Manager-Communications,Lenovo India

Poornima Matthan heads Corporate Communications at Lenovo India. She has completed 10 years at Lenovo. Poornima is a seasoned communicator with over twenty years of experience in Marketing & Communications and has worked in major PR consultancies and corporates in the US and in India. Poornima’s first love is music. She sings Jazz and Pop professionally, loves to paint, read the classics, write poems and prose, travel the world and help animals in distress!     

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Rose Siu

Regional Marketing Director, Central Asia Pacific

An innovative, proactive leader with 20 years APJ and global experience covering multiple disciplines in marketing strategy development, sales & marketing program management, branding, PR and communications strategy & program development, training facilitation & partner enablement and continuous process improvement in program operations. Currently, I am working as Regional Marketing Director at Lenovo Central Asia Pacific.

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Sachin Bhatia

AP Data Center Group Marketing Director

I love the landscape of customer advocacy. I am passionate to understand how & why customer segments behave differently, what motivates them and how brand should talk to them as a problem solver rather than a solution seller. Hi, I am Sachin Bhatia and I am Head Marketing for Lenovo’s Data Center Group in AP region. I truly believe technology can unleash customer’s business potential which enables creativity, open new door of opportunity and above all, solve the problem seamlessly.

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Sara Palmieri

Australia and New Zealand Marketing Lead

I’m a high-spirited, hard core marketing DOER. As the Marketing Lead at Lenovo ANZ, I head up a highly qualified team that has won multiple awards including The Internationalist Award for Innovative Digital Solutions in New York. My strengths are in strategic marketing, communications and demand generation. My passion is building strong brands through customer insights, creative positioning and disruptive campaigns. My favourite accomplishment was hosting Ashton Kutcher in Sydney to create bespoke, shareable and entertaining brand awareness campaigns through a #TechMyWay keynote event and “Punk’d” style hidden camera activation. When not achieving greatness in the world of Tech marketing, I can be found singing at the local karaoke.

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Shayne Harris

Head of Technical Sales ANZ

A highly successful sales and business professional with significant expertise in the in the Digital, Online and IT industries over more than 15 years. Extensive experience in Sales Management, Business Development and Account Management roles as well as managing people very focussed on setting and meeting targets, customer & organisational success and ongoing individual and team development. Strong track record in complex consultative, solution based sales, capable of establishing and maintaining strategic relationships at Executive and C level in industries such as Broadcast, Digital & online, Government and Enterprise. Shayne is responsible for the technology sales with the Lenovo Data Centre Group across Australia and New Zealand that comprises the internal technical sales team and also the pre-sales solution architects in the field across both countries. Shayne's primary role is set and manage the strategic intent of the technical sales resources for the enablement and market share growth of our alliance partners and end to end portfolio. Shayne has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry in technical and sales focussed roles and holds a bachelor of Business Management from the University of South Australia.

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Sriram Gopalaswamy

Head - commercial segment marketing at Lenovo India

I’m a marketer, a seller, an end user and a tech news junkie. I believe that being creative is to be a little crazy, and good marketers create a relevant emotional connect with customers. Lately, I’m trying to be a better story-teller now as a way to reach out to audiences and get a reaction.  

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Stephanie Shi

Senior Communications Manager Asia Pacific

My current role leading communications and employee engagement in one of the most innovative, diverse and entrepreneurial companies gives me a front-row seat to how technology is shaping a better and more connected future. Over the last decade, I’ve had the opportunity to manage PR for some of the most respected technology, FMCG and hospitality companies brands in great agencies and in-house – and I am still having a great time. I am passionate about books and the power of reading to educate, inspire and connect. I am also learning to occasionally stop and smell the roses!

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Subhankar Roy Chowdhury

Lead HR for Asia Pacific

I currently lead HR for the Asia Pacific Region at Lenovo. In my previous role, I led global HR Strategy, Analytics and M&A function catering to multiple business and geographies. Prior to that I was the HR leader for Lenovo India and Middle East and Africa sales regions. I have worked extensively in the areas of Strategic HR, HR Transformation, HR Business Partner management, Talent Management , HR Analytics, HR Technology in both HR Consulting and HR Generalist roles both at Corporate and in geographies of Asia, Middle East & Africa. In my career I have worked closely with CHROs and HR leadership teams, helping them build solutions for assessment and development centres, HR Transformation projects, e-Learning solutions, change management, CHRO Survey and insights, Employee Portal solutions and HR Technology deployment (SAP HR and Peoplesoft HRMS).

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Sumir Bhatia

Vice President, Data Centre Group, Asia Pacific at Lenovo.

As the leader for Lenovo’s Data Centre Group (DCG) in Asia Pacific, I’m responsible for driving substantial growth across the company’s computer, storage, networking, and services offerings in this fast-growing region. My role encompasses sales, strategic alliances, product, and go-to-market execution. I have a distinguished leadership track record over the past six years in the Asia Pacific region.

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Takeshi Okuma

Executive Director, Asia Pacific SMB Business

As Executive Director of SMB Business at Lenovo, I am a regional strategic leader and country COO. My primary responsibility to grow SMB and relationship business by providing directions and resources to diversified regions across Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, I have 10 years of experience in strategic consulting and leadership while always focusing on Tech and related industries. My specialties are strategy, business development, international project management, M&A and post-merger management. I have worked in 20+ countries and worked with 50+ nationalities. I enjoy diversity and dynamic environments. Currently, I manage a multi-national team remotely (~20 people in 10+ different locations).

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Vivek Sharma

Managing Director of Lenovo Global Technology India Private Limited

As Managing Director of Lenovo Global Technology India, Vivek is responsible for developing and implementing Company’s vision and strategy to grow the Data Center Business in India. With over 27 years of experience, Vivek’s goal is to help enterprise customers transform their business by deploying modern IT infrastructure and innovative solutions, easily & effortlessly. He has a proven record of achieving success in developing and executing business strategies to drive profitable growth in highly competitive markets. Prior to this role, Vivek led the IDC and ITaaS (Cloud Services) Business of Dimension Data, where he played a key role in transforming and expanding the company’s leadership in ITaaS and data centre business. During this period, in his leadership, order booking saw a phenomenal growth of 600% compared to previous year. Prior to that, he held several leadership positions at Wipro, where he grew the company to become a major force in India’s public sector. During his tenure at Wipro, he Led corporate initiative to establish alliances with Nortel, Avaya and Juniper. He led large transformation deals in Government and Defense segments including the largest DC hosting and DC build, largest IT transformation deal in Defense. He incubated new business in information security & contact center infra and applications space at his stint at Wipro. He played a key role in the acquisition of 3D networks & subsequently ran the business. Vivek is a strong believer of Customer Centricity and his top Priority is to ensures a great Customer experience throughout the customer life cycle.

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