Lula Mohanty

In February 2025, Lula Mohanty has been announced as Managing Partner MEA, IBM Consulting. She previously served as the Global Managing Partner, for Strategic Sales in IBM Consulting.In this role, she was responsible for driving large strategic transformational pursuits with enterprises across multiple industries globally. Organizations today, are looking to apply technology to drive business expansion, create state of the art customer experiences, drive internal efficiencies, reconfigure their operating models and reskill their staff. Lula’s mandate is to help clients create and execute these missions, in collaboration with other partners in the ecosystem. This is a multi-trillion dollar industry and IBM Consulting operates with more than 500 marquee clients globally. 

Lula has been with IBM for 25 years and during this time, has held various leadership positions in different countries. She was responsible for managing the IBM Consulting P&L for all of Asia Pacific during 20018-2023, working out of Singapore. Prior to that , She was responsible for IBM’s consulting business in India and South Asia between 2015 -2018. She returned India and the region to revenue and profit growth, and drove several landmark transformations with her clients during this time. State Bank of India, Indian Oil Corporation, Adani Group of Industries, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea Limited, Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), Defence, Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) Singapore, Singapore Land Authority (SLA), Synapxe-Singapore, Krungthai Bank-Thailand, Indosat-Indonesia, Ministry of Defence-Australia, Energy Australia, HSBC, CTBC-Taiwan, Hongkong Jockey Club - are some of her key associations. 

Lula also led the global delivery centers for IBM Consulting in India and Philippines, where she was responsible for delivery of IT and Process outsourced services. These included setting up the delivery operations, management of SLAs, Skills, utilization of resources and ensuring benefits realization as outlined in the contracts. At the center level, she was measured on Over/under recovery, client satisfaction, employee engagement, delivery excellence and contract GP performance. 

Lula is also the executive sponsor from IBM Consulting on a very strategic enterprise wide IBM process and platform transformation - end to end. The program’s mandate is to review IBM Enterprise operations across all verticals, to standardize process, tools and platforms, to drive productivity and generate savings upwards of a billion dollars. 

Lula is a member of the IBM Chairman’s Performance Team of the top leaders in IBM responsible for a sizeable business portfolio that influence IBM’s performance and also a member of IBM’s Acceleration team. This team is responsible for IBM’s strategy, growth, and transformation, in the industry. She is an Industry Diamond in IBM’s Industry Academy as an eminent spokesperson in the Banking industry. She is a member of CII-confederation of Indian Industries and is actively involved in the sub committee for supply chain transformation. She represents IBM in Nasscom’s D&I program, and is also associated with the Bridge Foundation in supporting women empowerment in Asia. 

Outside of work, Lula is associated with a non-government organization for the empowerment of women. She currently lives in the UK, with home base being Bangalore, India. Lula enjoys reading, writing, art and music.