28+ years’ experience, holding leadership roles managing P&L, large teams for cloud services, cloud automation platforms, software solutions & services, data center offerings to Enterprises, Telco’s, service providers, ISV’s across Middle East & Africa, South-East Asia, Korea and India. Performed in multi-cultural environments with teams working across time zones for both direct as well as channel sales.Consistently exhibited success in leading strong performing teams, building & transforming new businesses while targeting channels & direct sales at Microsoft, Ingram micro, Parallels (Odin), Acronis & Net4India. Awarded with the “Microsoft Compete Strategy Initiative” awards for two consecutive years besides being awarded "Microsoft Circle of Excellence" for exceeding performance and the CEO’s prestigious “Pinnacle Club Award” at Parallels (Odin).
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Regional Director (Emea And Apac)CorestackDubai, Ae -
Regional Director (Emea & Apac)Corestack Jan 2022 - PresentBellevue, Wa, UsCoreStack is a next-gen Cloud Business Accelerator that empowers enterprises to predictably increase top-line revenues, improve bottom-line efficiencies, and gain a competitive edge through AI-powered real-time cloud governance on autopilot.• Established the CoreStack operations for (Middle East, Africa, India & APAC). Instrumental in setting up the operations, office, onboarding new team members, evangelizing the brand, its value proposition to the partners, enterprises and alliances (Microsoft, AWS, GCP, Oracle) across the region. Participation in large industry events like GITEX, IDC Banking and Public sector congress, partner end-customer round tables and more.• Managing services partners like Deloitte, EY, Tata Communications, NTT, Hitachi, TechM, ZainTech (Zain Telecom) and large enterprise customers LTTS (L&T Technology Services), EMAAR, DAMAC, Network International. Established close relationships with the alliances to become a part of their GTM strategy for some of the largest enterprises, government, and public sector. -
Director, Cloud (Middle East & Africa)Ingram Micro Jan 2019 - Dec 2021Irvine, Ca, UsAs the Director, Cloud for META (Middle East, Turkey & Africa) region lead a team of 40+ cloud professionals managing the business end to end, from a P&L perspective as well as strategy and leadership. Help 800+ cloud partners across the region grow their cloud business profitably and guide traditional partners on their digital transformation journey.Strategic initiatives grew the business 100% YoY establishing a $75M business. Systematic accelerated approach to take the market share to over 33% across the region regardless of the tough competition in the market with a significant profitable monthly/annual run rate business. Handling a large portfolio of cloud products from vendors like Microsoft, IBM, VMware, Kaspersky, Symantec, Veeam, Acronis, DocuSign -
Director (Middle East & Africa)Acronis May 2014 - Dec 2018Schaffhausen, Switzerland, ChExpanding the Acronis (Backup & Disaster Recovery Software) footprint and market share in Middle East & Arica region working directly with SMB, Large Enterprises as well as a 2 Tier distribution model for both cloud as well as the traditional business. Growing the business by @60% YoY, signing large contracts like Dubai Metro (RTA), Sasol (Africa), Saudi Aramco. Signed distribution agreements with Aptec-Ingram (Middle-East & North Africa), First Distribution(Africa) & GTI (North Africa), BPS-ME (Middle-East) -
Director (South East Asia,India & Korea)Odin Apr 2009 - Apr 2014Irvine, Ca, UsEngaging with leading Telecom Companies, Service providers in the region to promote the Odin (Parallels) Cloud Service Delivery Platform, container virtualization and automation solutions by proposing the TCO & RoI models. Guiding service providers on how they can increase their revenues, ARPU’s , create an annuity business & reduce the customer attrition. Create and leverage alliances with Microsoft, IBM, Cisco for joint GTM’s ( Go To Market) campaigns with service providers across the South-East Asia, Korea and India regionSigned large multi-year contracts and established successful Cloud business relationships with leading Telco’s in the region like Korea Telecom, Vodafone (India) ,Telekom Malaysia , Telkom Indonesia (Intl) -Telin , Starhub (Singapore). Established a partner’s ecosystem generating a 40% YoY growing business across the region in Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand & Korea -
Country Manager ( Hosting / Cloud )Microsoft Corporation Sep 2006 - Mar 2009Redmond, Washington, UsResponsible for revenues by launching and leading Microsoft's Cloud Initiatives in India, Lead Web Services & Hosting Solutions Sales, fostering Web Services adoption, and developing the .NET ecosystem in the hosting space, successful GTM's & managing relationships with leading Service Providers/ Telco’s in the region. Having seeded Microsoft hosting, cloud business in India, created a complete eco-system of resellers/partners, 2 Distributors & $12Mn+ annual run rate business in less than 2.5 years. Received “The Circle of Excellence Award”(2007) for over achieving the targets and YoY growth and “Compete Strategy Initiative” awards for two consecutive years (FY’08 and FY’09) for driving adoption of Microsoft Platform to leading services providers and creating large compete wins. -
Gm (Data Center Services / Web Presence) & Marketing HeadNet4 India Ltd. Jan 2002 - Aug 2006Noida, U.P., InRestructured as well as aligned the major functions across Sales, marketing, support, product, engineering, development and data center operations for ensuring delivery of state-of-the-art services and a satisfied ecosystem of 800+ partners and 75,000 end customers across the country establishing Net4 as the largest web-hosting and data center services company having 7 data centers across the country. Contributed an average 35-40%+ YoY growth in revenue figuresConceptualization, production & launch of a state-of-the-art enterprise grade mailing solution called “Bizmail+” based on open source which catapulted the customer satisfaction and revenues. -
Country Manager (Malaysia)Niit Dec 1999 - Nov 2001Gurgaon, Haryana, InSoftware solutions sales to Malaysian Enterprises -
Manager SalesPertech Computers Ltd. Mar 1994 - Nov 1999Hardware and networking solution project sales to the Ministry of Defense.
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Gurpreet Singh Education Details
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Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityElectronics -
The Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi
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