Rakesh Reddy

Regional Director, Middle East and Africa

Rakesh Reddy is a technology business leader with a record of building practices, opening new markets and driving enterprise transformation across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. He combines expertise in strategic alliances, sales, marketing strategy, business development and client relationship management with a proven ability to establish and scale business initiatives in new geographies. His leadership spans mandates from business planning for a Tier IV datacentre to building a cloud practice from the ground up and delivering large-scale transformation programmes. In his current role he helps organisations across the Middle East and Africa harness multicloud, cybersecurity and data and AI to accelerate productivity, resilience and competitive advantage, partnering with CXOs as a technology evangelist and strategic advisor. His work on a Tier IV datacentre gave him command of the full datacentre services landscape covering cloud, colocation, managed services and business analytics, and he has led corporate planning initiatives, contributed to e-governance projects including Aadhaar, rolled out unified communications, and established cloud, managed services, big data and business analytics practices.