Dilip Bhatia

Vice President, Chief Experience Officer, Lenovo

Dilip Bhatia is Chief Experience Officer, who leads all facets of the total experience, including global Customer Experience (CX), User Experience (UX), and Digital Experience for customers, partners, and employees (EX).
By uniting the company’s experience-focused disciplines under a mantra of ‘all voices matter’, he enables employees to prioritize CX, UX, and EX-centric processes generating personalized and more inclusive experiences for all.
Delivering data-driven insights to every business unit, Dilip leads Lenovo from being product-centric to a more customer-centric organization that listens to and learns from all of its employees, partners and customers. He serves as executive sponsor for Lenovo’s disability and neurodivergence advocacy employee resource group, ABLE, A Better Lenovo for Everyone.
His user experience (UX) organization works collaboratively to recommend innovative design approaches for the next-gen and future generations of products and services that celebrate diversity (via our Product Diversity Office) for all consumer, commercial and SMB PCs, AR/VR and smart device offerings, counting the legendary ThinkPad X1 family, premium Yoga PCs, Lenovo Legion gaming devices and more in Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group.
Prior, Dilip was General Manager of the ThinkPad Business Unit and helped launch the iconic ThinkPad X1 family. He also served a four-year stint in Beijing on international assignment as the Executive Director of Product Marketing for ThinkCentre Commercial Desktop line of offerings.

Dilip has over 20 years of experience at both Lenovo and IBM in various roles. Dilip graduated from North Carolina State University with a degree in Computer Engineering and also has an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is based in Morrisville, North Carolina.

Nathan A. Sullivan

Class of 2023

Nate is a passionate Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) transfer student. Originally from a quaint town north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his journey into ECE continued when he joined the university’s ECE department in the fall of 2021. Within the ECE community, Nate assumed the role of Treasurer for the ECE Ambassadors Student Organization, leading a t-shirt design contest and apparel sales that helped boost ECE pride for current students and alumni alike. Nate also actively contributed to the academic environment as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Linear Systems. Off-campus, Nate also donned different hats, from tutoring AP Calculus and even operating a Zamboni.
Nate’s professional journey consists of an internship with Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, co-op rotations at Cisco, and finally an internship with Garmin, where he excelled and secured a full-time Design Engineer role. He also plans to continue his academic studies part-time over the next year to complete his Master’s Degree next fall.