H2O.ai taps award winning channel leader in APAC

Jamie Lim has been appointed as vice president of Partnerships for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region for H2O.ai

H2O.ai has appointed Jamie Lim as vice president of Partnerships for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region for H2O.ai. An award-winning channel leader with over 15 years of experience in technology partnerships and channel development, Lim will be responsible for managing and building partner ecosystems across the APAC region.

Prior to joining H2O.ai, Lim was senior director of ISG Channels and partner presales for Dell Technologies in the Asia Pacific and Japan region. She also had leadership roles in the channel in APAC for SailPoint and Citrix.

According to a media release by H2O.ai, Lim will focus on driving scale through trust, collaboration, and shared success. This includes strengthening H2O.ai's existing strategic partnerships with industry leaders in the region, including Dell Technologies, Ingram Micro, and TD Synnex, while also expanding the company's partner network across the region to accelerate AI adoption.

The world’s leading agentic AI company recorded 300% revenue surge in Asia Pacific and is expanding its team to meet the soaring enterprise AI demands in the region. In June this year, H2O.ai’s h2oGPTe agent achieved the top ranking on the prestigious General AI Assistant (GAIA) benchmark, with a record-setting 79.7% accuracy, fast approaching human-level performance, measured at 92%, and far surpassing general-purpose models from Google and Microsoft, which scored below 50%.

“Lim is a superstar with a deep understanding of the APJ’s AI and infrastructure partnerships and channel. She has a proven ability to build robust ecosystems that thrive and scale,” commented Sri Ambati, CEO and founder of H2O.ai.

Ambati also mentioned that H2O.ai’s team and partners have executed on phenomenal growth in the banking, telco, and public sectors in Singapore and Sydney over the last few years. He added that H2O.ai is now seeking to deepen that success and continue to support global customers and community.

“We want to raise a forest, not just a tree, and Jamie will amplify that growth with an outsized impact, strengthening our mission to democratize AI and our commitment to scale AI for Good through meaningful partnerships,” said Ambati.

For Lim, joining H2O.ai at a pivotal moment in the AI industry is an honor.

"My approach has always been about working side by side with partners, supporting their success through a deep understanding of customer needs and shared outcomes. I look forward to bringing this perspective to H2O.ai, where we can co-create solutions and unlock new possibilities together with our partner ecosystem,” said Lim.

As the world’s leading agentic AI company, H2O.ai converges generative and predictive AI to help enterprises and public sector agencies develop purpose-built GenAI applications on their private data. Its open-source technology is trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 500.

Customers in APAC include Singtel and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. H2O.ai partners include Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Ernst & Young , NVIDIA, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and VAST.