Vivek
Bharathi Muruganandam
AI Product Management Leader
IBM
Vivek comes across as very GTM- and ecosystem-driven in AI, rather than purely product-definition focused. His role sits at the intersection of product, partnerships, and commercial execution particularly in enterprise AI and agentic systems which is where a lot of the real βscaleβ work in AI is actually happening right now.
What stands out is the emphasis on orchestration across hyperscalers, GSIs, ISVs, and partners. That typically signals someone who is less focused on building models themselves and more focused on how AI products get adopted, distributed, and monetised across complex enterprise environments. In practice, that often means shaping positioning, enabling field teams, and translating technical capability into something that can survive procurement, compliance, and real-world deployment friction.
His broader positioning around agentic AI ecosystems suggests a strong bias toward platform thinking i.e. AI as something embedded into workflows and partner networks, rather than standalone applications.