Kumaralingam MC (Kumar) is an accomplished leader with more than twenty years of procurement and supply chain experience spread across IT Services, IT Hardware and Automotive industries. He has held various leadership roles across country, geo and global in his career span. In current role as Director for Global Procurement Centres, he is leading procurement professionals across global delivery centres that support services and general procurement for IBM and also for external clients. He also leads Robotics and Automation work stream and has been able to demonstrate multiple automation projects driving compliance and efficiency for IBM and clients. His vision is to drive automation solutions embedded with Cognitive capability for the digital procurement organizations.