Karan Bajwa to spearhead Google Cloud in Asia Pacific region

Google Cloud has elevated Karan Bajwa to lead the Asia Pacific market. At present, he is spearheading Google Cloud in India. He will head all regional revenue and go-to-market operations for Google Cloud, including on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Workspace from today, the company announced in a statement.

Bajwa has replaced Rick Harshman. As per the company, Harshman left the organisation for a new opportunity.

He will be reporting to Rob Enslin, President of Sales at Google Cloud.

Enslin said, “Since Karan joined us in March 2020, Google Cloud in India has grown from strength to strength. He’s advanced the digital transformation journeys of many large Indian organizations across industries and successfully expanded our partner community. He brings tremendous management and sales experience with him to this regional role, and we’re thrilled to have him at the helm of our APAC business.”

At present, Bajwa is based in Gurgaon but will relocate to Singapore in 2021. He will continue to lead Google Cloud in India until a new senior leader for the business is appointed, the company said.

Reacting to his new role, Bajwa said, “With the disruptions of 2020 behind us, a true test of 2021 will be how companies replatform and build on the cloud not only for resilience but agility and innovation, and I’m excited for the opportunity to lead Google Cloud’s business in APAC to maximize this next phase of growth.”