Deepali Naair has been appointed as the Director Digital Sales, India & ASEANZK Digital Sales Centre. Prior to this, she was the Director Marketing for India & South Asia region. In a social media post, Naair stated, "Leaving marketing will not be easy. I absolutely love the marketing team and the partnership we built with the business team".

The Bangalore Digital Centre would enable key brand missions at IBM, including systems ­ storage, power, cloud and cognitive software, public cloud, TSS digital sales and red hat. The Bangalore Centre will focus on digital sales across India, ASEAN, Korea and Australia.

Naair began her career as a senior officer at Tata Motors.From there she moved to BPL Mobile Communications as a manager and looked after the marketing operations. Then, she held the position of a

Leaving marketing will not be easy, as i absolutely love the marketing team and the partnership we built with the business team

group head account planning at FCB Ulka Advertising. She was a marketing manager at Marico and a consultant at EMM Group. She moved to HSBC AssetManagement India as the Vice President & Head of Marketing. She served as the Country Head Brand, Customer Service & e-Commerce at L& T General Insurance Company. At Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India, she was the Chief Marketing Officer. She has also been a visiting faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research.