Mandar Kulkarni is Director of the Cloud and Datacenter Program at Microsoft India. He leads Microsoft’s cloud expansion in India through the GoLocal initiative. He is responsible for the roll-out of Microsoft’s cloud services in India, taking them to customers through strategic partners and engaging customers for complex cloud based solutions. He is working with Indian regulators, influencers and policy makers for creating cloud adoption policies in regulated industries like banking and finance, and the public sector.