With over 20 years of IT industry management experience in the Asia Pacific region, Bidhan’s experience spans across areas including business transformation, mergers & acquisitions, strategic planning as well as partner lifecycle management and stakeholder management.

Bidhan is passionate about building high-performance teams and has led regional and global teams to achieve sustainable growth. For the past 14 years, has held strategic & leadership roles at Cisco across the Asia Pacific, Japan & Greater China (APJC) region, leading segments and function teams including Service Provider, Services Sales, Marketing and Commercial across India, ASEAN and APJC.

As Managing Director & Head of Commercial & Small Business Segments for Cisco APJC, he is responsible for driving the regional strategy for these segments and leading diverse teams across the region to drive revenue growth. Prior to this, Bidhan was Regional Director for Commercial, SMB & Distribution for Cisco in Southeast Asia. In this role, he led the team to pilot several innovative and strategic approaches in terms of go-to-market, partner & distribution and marketing.

Bidhan holds a BS in Chemistry, MBA from a premier management institute in India, and an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School. Singapore has been home to Bidhan for the last 10 years, where he resides with his wife and 12-year-old daughter.