Vanitha Narayanan, 

Narayanan has always focussed IBM’s energies on being fast, even early movers, in nascent but strategic local opportunities like microfinance, health care, and small and medium businesses. In fact, IBM had invested in demonstrating a smart city portfolio before smart cities became buzzwords. The past year was no different. IBM has opened up the API (application programming interface) of IBM Watson to developers, companies, and governments to innovate on its cognitive computing or machine learning platform. Narayanan seeks to drive volumes in cloud environments and harness IBM's industry knowledge, particularly in financial services, health care and retail.