Gunawan Susanto (Gun) is the President Director of PT IBM Indonesia. Gun, 35, is responsible for the strategic direction of the US based company with more than 430,000 employees across the world and in operations in more than 170 countries. He oversees the company’s operations in hardware, software and services in the Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Medan offices, including sales and distribution, procurement, global delivery and support functions. Being part of the local IT industry for over a decade, Gun was recently appointed as President Director of PT IBM Indonesia in 1 April, 2014. Gun began his career with PT IBM Indonesia in 2000 as part of the IBM Team Blue management trainee. In his over 14 years career with PT IBM Indonesia, Gun has taken on numerous leadership roles. He previously served as the Country Manager, Systems & Technology Group (STG) from early 2012. In 2010, he was named Country Manager, Business Partner Organization (BPO) and was responsible for the sizeable growth of PT IBM Indonesia’s business partner’s ecosystem. Prior to that, from 2008 until 2010 he served as System Sales Manager for Enterprise/STG Sector In 2000 Gun started his career with PT IBM Indonesia as Field Sales Specialist for System i in SMB banking, manufacturing, distribution and insurance sector and stepped into the Regional Product Manager for System i in ASEAN role in 2007. Gun earned a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from University of Indonesia in year 2000.