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IBM Silver Tier Business Partner


Guild Systems, an IBM Silver Tier Business Partner, is strategically aligned with IBM’s vision and innovative solutions, offering a wide array of specialties across multiple industries. Explore our diverse suite of services, each tailored for impactful ​change and innovation.


Services
Integration
Connect your applications, services, APIs and data quickly and securely to automate and unleash business potential with integration platform software
AI & Data
Optimize your data strategy to support data-driven decisions to help you scale and accelerate the impact of AI with trusted data across your business
API Strategy & Governance
Optimize your API visibility, quality, consistency, security and compliance across internal/external integrations to ensure that every API in your portfolio deliver its maximum value
Business Automation
Automate your end-to-end business processes with low-code tooling to orchestrate critical resources including people, applications and systems
Sustainability
Embed sustainability into your business transformation to meet the growing demands of key stakeholders and conscious customers
Custom Consultation
Collaborate with us to build tailored tech strategies and enterprise architectures for your unique business needs

Why Guild?

As a Premier IBM Business Partner, we don't just offer tech solutions. We provide a legacy of IBM integration and pioneering approaches.


Discover the essence of Guild Systems – a confluence of vast experience, IBM alignment, and global impact.

Mastery in Business Automation, Integration, Sustainability, and Data & AI

19+ years shaping the technology landscape

Over 80% of the team has direct IBM heritage

Serving clients across the world, including the U.S., Canada, India, and Europe 

Our Leadership Team

At Guild Systems, our team is our strongest asset. Comprising of IBM veterans, API strategists, and experts in Data & AI and Sustainability, we bring a fusion of experience and innovation to every project. Together, we drive global tech transformations from our bases in the U.S., Canada, India, and Europe.

Om Bachu

MANAGING PARTNER

Om Bachu is a luminary in the tech world, boasting over 25 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Solutions and Business Transformation. As an Executive Consultant for industry giants like IBM and Google, Om has been instrumental in shaping cutting-edge products such as IBM's CloudPaks and RedHat Openshift. His accolades include multiple '100 Percent Club - Sales' awards from IBM, affirming his unparalleled aptitude in marrying technology with business.


Om isn't just a practitioner; he's a thought leader and educator. With a dual Master’s degree—one in Computer Engineering from CEDT of India and another in Statistics from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University—Om's expertise is both deep and broad. From crafting IBM certification exams to steering transformative projects, he has a proven track record of driving innovation and achieving tangible business results. When Om steps into the room, he doesn’t just bring his credentials; he brings a legacy of meaningful impact in technology.

Sid Bhatia

HEAD OF INTEGRATION 

PRACTICE

Sid Bhatia leads the Integration practice for Guild Systems and has a wealth of knowledge from over 25 years in the technology industry growing existing products and launching new products into the market while building high-performing teams. Sid has worked at IBM, Meta/Facebook, Charles Schwab & Accenture across financial services, consumer healthcare, defense and social media/internet industry sectors.

At Meta/Facebook, Sid led a product team for building a platform for business customers worldwide. While at IBM for over 13 years, he was the Program Director leading the worldwide product management organization for IBM's Integration products including IBM API Connect, DataPower, App Connect, Service Registry & Repository and MQ. Prior to joining IBM, he was the Managing Director of Enterprise Architecture for 11 years at Charles Schwab, where Sid led key enterprise transformation initiatives for integration & security, including rolling out an enterprise service bus platform, edge gateway, identity & access management & service registry. He also helped transform the Schwab technology organization towards a service-oriented mindset & scalable architecture by creating an Integration Center of Excellence to transform how applications/services were designed, implemented & governed to help drive business value.

Sid has a Master of Science in Software Engineering from the University of St. Thomas & an MBA from Saint Mary's College of California. 

Nicole Poole

TECHNICAL ANALYST & SALES LEAD

Boasting an impressive two-decade career in technology sales, Nicole Poole stands as a beacon of professionalism and dedication in the industry. Having successfully grown revenue, expanded the customer base, and consistently delivered on company revenue objectives, her record is nothing short of stellar. Her expertise goes beyond mere sales numbers. At the heart of her success is an intense customer focus, blending a deep comprehension of business with an unwavering passion for customer success. With a Master's in Business Administration from Golden Gate University, Nicole excels at establishing and nurturing strong customer relationships, a trait consistently echoed in her roles from Guild Systems Inc as a Technical Analyst to her pivotal time as an Account Director at Broadcom Inc. During her tenure at Broadcom, she was instrumental in promoting CA Software & Symantec's Enterprise Software Security solutions to Silicon Valley's top companies, solving wide-ranging customer problems using innovative technology solutions.


Nicole's journey has spanned several key industry players, including IBM, where she specialized in Digital Business Automation and Cloud Solutions, SAP as a Senior Account Executive, and Oracle where she showcased her knack for solutions selling, even exceeding quotas and earning accolades for her exceptional performance. A tech geek at heart, she seamlessly marries her love for technology with her adeptness at sales, making her a formidable force in the tech sales realm.

Debasish
Banerjee

HEAD OF IT AUTOMATION & FINOPS PRACTICE

Debasish is a seasoned thought leader, hands-on architect, and practitioner of cutting-edge technologies. His IT career spans over 3 decades, covering the entire landscape from product development to services, technical sales and customer success. Debasish has a proven track record spanning more than a decade of advising and closely working with Fortune 500 and other customers in the USA, Europe and Asia. Debasish's work has resulted in the establishment of several advanced IBM technologies in the field  and the generation of significant business 
revenues of several hundred million USD for IBM. 

Debasish architected and led the collaborative development effort with IBM Research for Mono2Micro, IBM’s first AI-based utility for automatically transforming JEE monoliths to microservices. Debasish worked with product development and 
IBM Research to enhance and enrich IBM's Observability & Automatic Application Resource 
Management (AARM) platforms. Debasish's present areas of interest are Superior Observability to reduce MTTR, AARM, FinOps, and the use of AI to enhance these technologies. 

Debasish has patents and publications in prestigious academic journals and conferences, as well as industry publications and conferences. He has received many awards from IBM, including the 
prestigious ‘IBM Research Accomplishment,’ ‘Corporate Technical Recognition,’ and several 
'Outstanding Technical Achievement' awards. Debasish did his Ph.D. in combinator-based 
Functional Programming. 

Debasish is the father of Cheenar and Neehar, his software engineer daughters, who are his pride and joy. 

Global Reach

Guild's commitment to excellence knows no boundaries. 

With operations spanning continents, experience a global tech partnership like no other.

Connect With Us

Let’s craft your technology success story together. Connect with Guild's IBM experts to get started.