Director of The Friends School, Trivandrum's favourite experiential learning school. The Friends School with a legacy of 39 years believe in Child centric, Child driven, and choice based learning. With experiential learning at its core, our children learn through Hands-on activities, Projects and game based learning methodology.Our vision is to grow into a full blown alternate learning school from Kindergarten to 12th grade. Currently we have Std 2 starting in June 2023 and hope to have our first batch of 12th grade graduate in the year 2034.

I am a sales guy by profession and a personal trainer by passion with over 7 years of experience in sales and 10 year experience in training. I have spend my initial days of my career selling applications for Oracle India and later joined Cloud Lending Solutions to sell Loan Origination and Management solutions. I have experience working for global markets including Europe, Africa, Australia apart from India market.I am also an entrepreneur. I am the CEO, Founder and Chief Trainer at Life Chefs- A Leadership Training and Development organization working with Schools, Colleges and Corporate companies.My objective in life is to help develop in people Leadership qualities and also mold them into better personalities and socially committed human beings. To achieve this objective is Why I quit my sales job and became a full time entrepreneur in the field of HR training and development.I have conducted over 500 training programs on various topics like Leadership Development, Career Guidance, Life and Social skills, Team Dynamics, Sales Strategy, Skills and Processes, etc. The biggest happiness in life is that I have mentored over 100 students who are currently well placed with leading corporate companies across the globe.

Responsible for Revenue generation for the core banking and Loan Management applications from strategic markets of ANZ and India, from net new customers as well as existing accounts.Working closely with the marketing team to generate quality leads from the Banking and Non Banking sector mainly Micro finance, Peer to Peer lending, Auto Loans, Leasing Businesses, Home Loan companies etc.Control and manage complex sales deals- C level executives through face to face meetings travelling to Australia, New Zealand, as well locally across India.Work closely with sales team members, pre-sales, product teams and implementation partners to finalize requirements, deliver PoC, scope of implementation and execute Statement of work.Respond to RFPs and work closely with pre-sales team to lead the bid process.Develop new markets & channel partners.Advice marketing teams to design high ROI campaigns. Playing the lead role of strategic adviser to the management in terms of market inputs from ANZ and India for product development, pricing and Go To Market strategies.Monitoring the sales team, training new recruits on sales processes and solution, to get them market ready.Achievements: Continuously delivered 100% + yearly sales targetsLed the team to contribute 40% + to the global top line.Laid solid foundation in the India and ANZ markets by closing 10+ strategic enterprise deals, acknowledged at investor levels.Instrumental in closing Fujitsu Japan as Led Partner for ASEAN market. Re-engineered and implemented sales processes and practices.      Attended conferences in 10+ countries- Presentations, Demos, Networking.Strategic advisor role to SMT in terms of market inputs for product development, pricing and Go To Market strategies.

Responsible for Revenue generation for the core banking and Loan Management applications from EMEA from net new customers as well as existing accounts.

Responsible for business development and driving revenue for applications, from the Enterprise and Strategic accounts, focusing majorly on Customer Experience applications and also ERP, for Oracle.Conduct research on various industries and market, perform analysis, and to closely work with the marketing team to design focused industry- market campaigns. To engage with C Level executives from companies to understand various challenges in their operational areas and also the current IT Background, to explore opportunities, and to position the best fit applications suiting their business requirements.Position, explain and present to the customer the value proposition and work closely with the other team members to drive the opportunity from the Lead generation stage to closure.Generate new leads from Newspapers, Magazines and through events, build relationships with the C level executives of the organizations, and meet them to nurture the cases.Study various industries in detail, their processes, challenges, latest trends and happenings in order to equip with enough knowledge to generate business from varied industries.Also working on the actionable objectives of various marketing campaigns designed to generate more business from the Enterprise business space. Plan and execute events which are industry specific and product specific to generate healthy pipeline and also drive the same along with the other teams to closure.

Life Chefs is a leadership development training company focusing on transforming people's thought processes, behaviour and attitude by inculcating life and social skills. We inspire people to dream and help them become the best version of themselves.We have conducted over 500 training programs on topics such as Leadership and Personality Development, Team Dynamics, Career Orientation, Motivation and Confidence Building across schools, colleges and corporate in South India. We have trained more than 25000 resources and have personally mentored over 100 students, helping them to achieve their dreams.

I was working as the Regional Program Coordinator for Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi.I was in charge of Publicity, Marketing, Press coverage, organizing and management of the seminars for the youth in Kerala. As part of the program, I had to interact, and give presentations to the College managements and students across Kerala. Made around 30 minute presentations across the colleges in Kerala as part of the promotion of the program and also interacted with students and the press.Have been able to organize and conduct many training programs and seminars for Management of colleges and schools as well for students across Kerala and in Bangalore.