Sanjay Agarwal, is details oriented, analytically minded, problem solving & always curious Global Program Director at IBM. In this role, he sets the strategy for IT Transformation and Business Resilience for IBM Systems Business Unit. In this role, he is accountable to Vice President, Strategy and Development Technical Operations. He holds Electronics Engineering Bachelor’s degree from Pune University, India.Prior to his current assignment, Sanjay in various positions with IBM Labs for ~17 years, rapidly progressed in management / leadership responsibilities. He has tenaciously built & ramped up Lab teams from ground-up to enhance & sustain best in class IT infrastructure and provided continually improving Operations service delivery by relentlessly pursing transformation, efficiency improvement & optimization through automation. His strong integrity, avid learning capabilities, high energy drive & passion for cultivating leaders, had him being rated Top Contributor & has been nominated as Top Talent for many years.His nearly 31 years career provided him a rich industry experience across diverse industries such as IT Software, Telecom, New Product Development & Manufacturing at companies such as IBM, Ericsson, Sasken, HCL Hewlett Packard (now HCL Technologies) & East India (Oberoi) Hotels. His career has experience in multiple domains of the business, including IT Management (Infra. & Services), Business Operations & Compliance, Supply chain and Program Management.With his visionary, strategic & outcome driven approach, he has demonstrated success by envisioning & implementing world’s first Solar powered Green Data Center @ Bangalore, in 2010 with extensive Virtualization & On Prem Cloud pay per use services & also evangelized it by showcasing it to ~450 clients.He is also Yoga enthusiast and contributes immensely towards social cause as Rotary, Charter President.