Siddharth Purohit (M.S. ’93)

Position: Chief executive architect for IBM, including its Global Business Solution Center and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Solution Center.

Global Impact: Siddharth is a leading member of the start-up team in charge of creating IBM's new Global Business Solution Center and SOA Solution Center in Bangalore, India.

Career Highlights: Information Week dubbed Sid as “the new face of IBM” because of his expertise at developing software built around service-oriented architectures.

Problem Solver: Technicians at the Bangalore center will design new ways in which businesses can combine software components with other technologies as assets to solve some of the most difficult and needed business problems.

What the Future Brings: “My group has the ability to bring all of IBM's technologies and services together on behalf of the customer, creating business solutions and assets based on SOA that can be used around the world.”