Vishal Dhawan

Managing Director & President, Asia Pacific & Middle East Planview

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Vishal Dhawan runs Planview’s business across Asia Pacific and the Middle East as Managing Director and President. Planview sells portfolio and work management software — the layer that is supposed to connect what an organisation says its strategy is to what its teams are actually doing week to week — to more than 4,500 customers and over 2.6 million users worldwide. It was taken private in December 2020 by TPG Capital and TA Associates in a $1.6 billion transaction. Dhawan was appointed in July 2022 when Planview stood up a dedicated Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, which makes his a build role rather than an inherited one: the region was being given its own centre of gravity at the moment he took it. His remit has since broadened to include the Middle East. An Indian national and Singapore permanent resident, he was described on appointment as one of two Asian technology veterans brought in to lead the new regional operation.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Managing Director and President for Asia Pacific in July 2022, at the point Planview opened a dedicated regional headquarters in Singapore rather than running Asia from the United States.
• Now carries the wider Asia Pacific and Middle East remit, the title Planview uses for him in its own 2026 event and partnership materials.
• Opened Planview PartnerView APAC-ME 2026 in Bengaluru on 25 February 2026 with the leadership strategy keynote — the company’s own agenda credits him with the strategy update from Planview leadership.
• Named as Planview’s voice in a January 2026 partnership with AG MGATE targeting the strategy-execution gap across South East Asia, describing it as strengthening the company’s mission to build the digital future of connected work.
• Took the region on at a point when Planview had roughly 1,300 employees globally, more than 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users, and had just been named a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrants for both Enterprise Agile Planning Tools and Strategic Portfolio Management.
• Was appointed alongside Harsh Vardhan, who became Head of Strategy, Marketing and Alliances for Asia Pacific — the two forming the founding leadership of the Singapore operation.

Professional Journey

The documented part of Dhawan’s career begins with his appointment at Planview, and the sources are thin on what came before. Secondary aggregation reports around twenty years serving customers and accelerating growth for technology companies, including senior sales positions at JDA Software and at Oracle on Demand, and management roles at Satyam Computer Services in Malaysia. None of that is confirmed by a company-published or press source, and no titles or dates are given for any of it, so it is set down here as reported rather than established.

In July 2022 Planview announced that it was opening an Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore and appointing two regional leaders to run it out of that office. Dhawan became Managing Director and President for Asia Pacific; Harsh Vardhan, a naturalised Singaporean, became Head of Strategy, Marketing and Alliances for the region. The announcement was framed by then-chief executive Razat Gaurav around Planview’s central argument — that employees across a business need to see how their work connects to strategic outcomes, and to be able to make fast front-line decisions without drifting off strategy. Planview at that stage was two years past its $1.6 billion take-private by TPG Capital and TA Associates and was investing in regional presence.

By 2026 the region he leads had grown to include the Middle East. Planview’s own materials for PartnerView APAC-ME 2026, held in Bengaluru in February of that year, list him as Managing Director and President, Asia Pacific and Middle East, opening the event with the leadership strategy keynote. The same month-range saw him front a channel partnership with AG MGATE covering South East Asia. The pattern across both is partner-led regional expansion rather than direct enterprise selling alone, which is consistent with how software vendors typically scale across the diversity of markets that Asia Pacific and the Middle East represent.

He is an Indian national and a permanent resident of Singapore, and the regional business he leads is headquartered there.

Education

No education details were found. Planview’s 2022 appointment release, the trade coverage of it, the company’s 2026 event materials and the partnership announcement all omit any degree, institution or field of study, and a targeted search returned nothing.