Ex-Microsoft director Farhana Haque to lead Ingram Micro India's platform business

Ingram Micro India, the Indian arm of the global technology distributor Ingram Micro, has appointed Farhana Haque as Country Lead and Executive Director, Platform Business. The company announced the move on Monday, October 26, 2026, and said the appointment took effect on Wednesday, October 21. Haque, who most recently was a Senior Director at Microsoft, will be based in Mumbai and will report to Flavio Moraes Junior, Vice President and Chief Country Executive of Ingram Micro India.

Ingram Micro is one of the world's largest technology distributors. It sits between the companies that make hardware, software and cloud services and the thousands of resellers and service providers that sell them on to businesses. In India, that means a large network of channel partners, many of them small firms, who buy laptops, servers, software licences and cloud subscriptions through the distributor.

The role Haque takes on is at the centre of a change in how that trade works. According to the company, Xvantage is its digital platform that brings hardware and cloud subscriptions together in one place, with pricing, order tracking, billing automation and personalised recommendations. Moving partners from phone calls, emails and spreadsheets on to such a platform is what the company calls its platform business. Haque has said her focus will be on simplifying the partner journey, accelerating Xvantage adoption and scaling the company's presence across key segments, including SMBs.

Moraes Junior said the company's ambition is to make it easier for partners to discover, purchase and manage technology through a connected digital ecosystem. He said Haque's experience in enterprise transformation, cloud, AI and strategic partnerships would support the platform business and the push into the SMB market.

For readers following women's careers in Indian technology, Haque's path is a useful example of how senior leadership is often built: a technical first degree, an early job in delivery at an IT services company, a business degree, and then a series of roles that move from projects to running whole lines of business. Her career covers four very different kinds of technology company: an Indian IT services firm (Infosys), a global technology and consulting group (IBM), a telecom operator (Vodafone) and a software and cloud company (Microsoft). Each move added a new layer: enterprise software, the distribution trade, connected devices, and then cloud and AI strategy.

The appointment also places a woman in charge of a business that faces many small business owners and channel partners, a part of the Indian technology trade where senior leaders have traditionally been mostly men.

Short-term: Haque's first task, according to the company, is to raise use of the Xvantage platform among Ingram Micro India's partners, especially smaller resellers, and to strengthen customer success, the team that helps partners get value from the platform after they sign up.

Long-term: If more partners buy and manage technology through the platform, small Indian businesses could find it quicker to order hardware and cloud services through their local reseller. The move also adds to a pool of women in senior country roles at global technology companies in India, which can widen the set of role models for women entering the sector.

Who is affected: Ingram Micro India's channel partners and resellers, the small and medium businesses they serve, the company's platform and customer success teams, and women professionals in technology who look to such appointments as markers of how careers in the industry can progress.

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