Romil Bahl is an innovative, entrepreneurial, growth and results-driven executive with extensive experience building top performing information, product and professional services companies across a range of industries including IoT, Healthcare & Connected Car/Auto/Fleet Management. He is a high impact leader adept at understanding diverse market opportunities, translating business challenges into compelling strategies that change the trajectory of a company and its team to achieve consistent breakthrough results. A Quality Communicator with a reputation and long legacy of building trust-based relationships with diverse constituencies; a Global Citizen who has led global companies and business units in many countries across four continents; a Pioneer and Leader in the high secular growth platforms of Analytics and Healthcare having been a thought-leader for over a decade in the field of ‘making money from information’.
As a third time CEO, Romil has had both public company and private equity experience, and is an excellent coach for CEOs, as he is for his executive teams, many of whom have worked with him at multiple companies. His Board of Directors experience includes several small companies, the IoT M2M Council (IMC), the Institute of Financial Operations and the Advisory Council of the MS/MBA program at the University of Texas at Austin.
In his role as CEO of KORE, Romil has furthered his visionary IoT and analytics-centric career and has crafted a strategy to position the business as a one-of-a-kind solutions provider and global independent connectivity provider with a leadership position in delivering IoT solutions. Furthering the company’s legacy in advanced connectivity, KORE is now positioned to provide core networking services and importantly, is one of the world’s first providers of both multi-IMSI and eSIM-based intelligent switching.
Before KORE, Romil was CEO of Lochbridge, a company which he pivoted to a Connected Car focus and successfully exited to a strategic buyer in the summer of 2017. Prior roles include CEO of PRGX, a procurement and health care analytics company, and leadership of a $9 Billion unit of CSC. Before that, he ran the global Systems Integration unit of Infosys and was President of EDS’ Global Consulting unit.
Romil has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Engineering from DMET, India (admitted via the IIT joint entrance examination). Prior to coming to the US for his graduate studies, Romil worked in both India and France and speaks Hindi, French and Punjabi.