Amar Babu is the new MD for Lenovo India

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DQChannels Bureau
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Bangalore

November 28th, 2007

Lenovo has announced the appointment of R K Amar Babu as MD, Lenovo India.
Amar will be responsible for the overall business and growth for Lenovo in
India.

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Amar Babu has more than 17 years of multi-functional experience of which over
10 years have been in leadership roles. He was most recently the Chief Service
Delivery Officer of Idea Cellular Ltd., and a member of Idea Cellular's
Executive Committee.

Prior to this, Babu served as MD (South Asia), Sales & Marketing Group,
Intel Technology (I), and was in charge of Intel's business in South Asia
(India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh), as well as all sales and marketing
operations. Before that, he was VP (Operations) for HCL Information Systems,
where he was involved in all key strategic decisions and responsible for
consumer, channel and retail business.

"We welcome Amar Babu into Lenovo Asia Pacific's senior management team.
I am confident that Amar's ability to lead and manage high performance teams,
his track record for developing internal talent and his understanding of the
role of culture in a company's success will aid our growth in India," said
David Miller, President of Asia Pacific and Senior VP, Lenovo Group.

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"Lenovo is a growing force in the global PC market and has achieved
impressive traction in India, in a short span of time. I'm delighted to be part
of an organization that takes pride in its multicultural heritage and
customer-centric innovation," said Amar Babu.

Babu has also worked at Citibank NA and HCL Hewlett Packard and is a
Management Post Graduate from XLRI, Jamshedpur and has an Engineering degree in
Electrical and Electronics from PSG Tech, Coimbatore.