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At Ample, our team is dedicated to establishing the company as India's leading B2B technology provider while diversifying our product solutions &offerings and pioneering Managed Services. With 27 years of building and growing businesses, my strategic leadership has been pivotal in conceptualising the Ample 3.0 Vision, with an aim to achieve $1B revenue by 2029.This journey has been marked by substantial success, including a 350% increase in B2B revenue over the past three years, thanks to our collaborative efforts and the implementation of innovative go-to-market strategies, revamping our product & solution offerings, SaaS, Managed Services and Enterprise Solutions being the key focus areas.Our accomplishments at Ample reflect a steadfast commitment to customer delight & experience, niche solutions, sales leadership and operational excellence, leveraging my extensive experience in transforming & growing enterprise businesses across multiple sectors.

Entered world of Samsung India Electronics as Head - South, Enterprise Mobility in 2013 and in the next 6 years experienced exponential career growth which helped me learn, build & grow new Verticals nationally; Education, BFSI, Large Accounts and Defence & CSD . My last role as Head - North and East was to revive and grow a declining region.( Grew the business by 127% Y-o-Y.Head- North & East: The mandate was to grow and build the Samsung Enterprise business share In the region , which was declining

Mandated to consolidate all large/key accounts under one umbrella with focus on solution sales & higher profitability. Revamped the operations for CPC & CSD business, created a new Go To Market strategy & hired a team of experts in the vertical

The vision was to build and gain major market share in the private Education & BFSI sectors in India. Leverage from Samsung's Mobility portfolio and offer customised and customer centric solutions.

Strategized & implemented a world-class Go To Market for the fastest growing sector in India. Built partnerships & alliances with digital content providers, LMS integrators & publication houses. Built the customer base & increased market coverage through direct sales team and an education partner eco system.

Lead the B2B- enterprise solutions business for South of India, as Enterprise head for IM B2B.My role entailed me to devise and execute an enterprise go to market strategy in the B2B space for Samsung mobility devices across south.

Joined HP India in 2007 to grow the PSG portfolio in the IT/iTES segment in Karnataka. Quickly grew to manage the Key Accounts vertical for Karnataka and was elevated as Peoples Manager in 2010 and moved to lead the Govt. & Defence Vertical for Karnataka and Kerala. Lead the Govt./ PSU / Defence Vertical for South1. Revamped the GTM and designed an aggressive Strategy to win back HP mindshare and market share in the vertical.

Lead & grow Corporate/Global/PSU/Govt. segments in the region. Build and mentor the team of 7 Key Account Managers / Account Managers who in turn will manage and nurture the top 250 accounts. Responsible to achieve top line revenues / direct mode business & substantial Gross Margins from the targeted enterprise accounts. Mandated to grow HP market share in the segment / region

As a National Manager-Business Development, I was responsible to develop the market and ensure the growth in CMS & RMS in the Operator Bundling segment and later on in the corporate segment post the brand launch.

Led a direct team of 8 SMB Managers, 4 CRM’s &, 10 DSAs & indirect Field Sales Executives of over 80 with a mandate to establish, develop & streamline the SME ‘Go to Market’ strategy in Karnataka & re-establishing the process for sales and revenue growth and retention.

Established the new vertical to focus on the booming BPO sector in Bengaluru.  Streamlined the BPO Go to Market strategy & pioneered the concept of “Employee owned & Employee Paid”

Was hired to developed the Airtel post paid Enterprise business in a virgin territory(Whitefield/ITPL) of Bangalore.

Awarded The best Account Manager for the Q2 & Q3