TECH trailblazers -India’s Partner Marketing Powerlist 2026

• Bhaskar Basu  Chief Partner Officer – India & South Asia

Bhaskar Basu is driving Microsoft’s partner-first growth strategy across India and South Asia by strengthening the partner ecosystem, accelerating cloud and AI adoption, enabling co-sell opportunities, and helping partners build industry-focused solutions that deliver measurable customer outcomes and digital transformation at scale.

• Gaurav Saxena – Director, Channels & Alliances, Veeam

With more than two decades of experience across channel development, distribution, and strategic alliances, Gaurav Saxena brings deep expertise in building and scaling partner-led businesses. At Veeam, he will lead the company’s channel and alliance strategy, strengthen partner collaboration, and accelerate growth across the

SMB segment in India and SAARC.

•Amit Murarka,Senior Director – Alliances & Partnerships Databricks India

Amit Murarka is driving Databricks’ partner ecosystem across India by strengthening strategic alliances, accelerating co-sell initiatives, enabling consulting partners, and expanding Data & AI adoption through a collaborative, partner-first go-to-market strategy.

• Nikhil Sharma – AWS

Driving partner success in the world’s largest hyperscaler, Nikhil has become synonymous with enabling India’s cloud ecosystem through scalable co-marketing and enablement.

• Jason Albert – Akamai

Leading partner marketing at Akamai India, Jason crafts narratives around content delivery and security powered by a robust partner base.

• Vivek Duvedi – Snowflake

A strong advocate of the modern data stack, Vivek is shaping Snowflake’s India ecosystem through compelling joint GTM initiatives with partners.

• Nishith Sampat – NTT

Known for his deep expertise in revenue marketing and partner co-innovation, Nishith is a standout in the partner marketing leadership community.

• Kamia Wahi – Apple India

As Partner Marketing Lead, Kamia drives Apple’s India strategy across notebooks and PCs, ensuring partners are central to Apple’s growth narrative.

• Samson Issac – NetApp

Leading NetApp’s alliances and partner marketing in India, Samson is recognized for spotlighting partner success in hybrid cloud and storage.

Tamanna Tasneem – Lenovo India

A force in partner and channel marketing, Tamanna ensures Lenovo’s expansive partner base translates into market leadership.

• Ashish Shah – Google Cloud

At the helm of partner marketing for Google Cloud in India, Ashish is known for curating campaigns that highlight joint innovation stories with customers across industries.

• Kuldeep Sehrawat – IBM

Driving IBM’s partner marketing play, Kuldeep ensures the tech giant’s alliance ecosystem stays front and center in conversations on hybrid cloud and AI.

• Tarun Goyal – Dell Technologies

A veteran in channel and partner storytelling, Tarun ensures Dell’s extensive partner base stays engaged, competitive, and aligned to the hybrid cloud future.

• Swarnim Damani – Commvault

Championing data protection and backup as a business enabler, Swarnim leads Commvault’s partner ecosystem with an eye for storytelling and co-created customer wins.

• Chitiz Gupta – Nutanix

At Nutanix, Chitiz is a driver of the “cloud operating model” narrative in India, working closely with partners to amplify hybrid cloud transformation.

• Mohammed Wasif – SAP

SAP’s Partner Marketing Director, Wasif anchors partner-led growth by aligning the SAP ecosystem with digital transformation priorities in India Inc.

• Abhishek Shukla – Salesforce

As Salesforce scales in India, Abhishek leads partner marketing with a focus on ecosystem enablement and joint customer wins.

• Sujay Shetty – HPE Networking

Sujay spearheads HPE’s Global SIs Partner Marketing strategy, keeping the company’s alliance ecosystem at the forefront of conversations around HPE Networking – Aruba and Juniper. His focus on strategic engagement with system integrators, co-creation initiatives, and ecosystem positioning has been instrumental in establishing HPE Networking as a powerful growth engine for enterprises.

• Satish Nair – Cisco

At Cisco India, Satish is known for building narratives that highlight how partner collaboration accelerates digital infrastructure growth.

• B. C. Nachiketh – Palo Alto Networks

As Enterprise & Value Partner Marketing Manager for India & SAARC, Nachiketh has made partner-led campaigns a core pillar of Palo Alto’s growth story.

• Krishita Motwani – ServiceNow India

Krishita accelerates GTM synergy by empowering the partner ecosystem and leading co-marketing programs with global system integrators. Her emphasis on strategic collaboration, co-creation initiatives, and ecosystem positioning has been pivotal in strengthening ServiceNow’s role as a transformative growth engine for enterprises.

What unites this diverse set of leaders is a shared ability to turn marketing into an engine of trust, scale, and revenue. They don’t just amplify brand messages; they enable ecosystems, empower partners, and energize markets. In a country where ecosystems determine success, these rainmakers prove that partner marketing is no longer the “back office of demand gen” but the frontline of digital growth.

India’s partner marketing leaders are not just keeping pace with change — they are defining it.