In his current role as the President, Shoaib focuses on integrating diverse teams for a positive work environment and optimum output. He’s steered customer management, marketing and communications, partner management, new products—from incubation to launch, strategic alliances, overtures to key market segments including Chartered Accountants, and verticalisation…all as Executive sponsor.
Prior to Tally, Shoaib was Founder-Director of Vedha Automations Pvt Ltd. He was instrumental in Vedha’s merger with Tally, successfully managing the transition of the team and the domain expertise of Tally Solutions. Joining Tally, as Vice President—Sales, he brought fresh impetus to the sales organisation, managed all products and services for India, and captained Tally’s most successful product upgrade programme, setting an unequalled sales record in the process.
An entrepreneur with demonstrated ability to tackle tough business and management challenges, he has an innate ability to inspire people, and lead through confidence, logic and fair play.
Shoaib is an Arts and Law graduate and an alumnus of St. Joseph’s College in Bangalore. He has completed a post-Graduate programme on Strategic Management from IIM –Calcutta. Shoaib plays tennis and is learning the Tabla.
Speaker Bio:
Shoaib Ahmed
President, Tally Solutions
P K Gopalakrishnan
Senior Vice President and Head , MindTree
In this role, Gopalakrishnan holds business responsibility for Indian enterprises, defense and government sectors. He is also involved in building MindTree’s System Integration (SI) capability, which the organization is strongly intent on acquiring along with its existing base of services.
Gopalakrishnan brings with him 23 years of extensive experience in the industry. Prior to joining MindTree he worked with Wipro, where he was responsible for the Government and Defense industry vertical in India, which contributed $75 million in revenues in 2007-08.
Gopalakrishnan is an MBA graduate from IIM-Bangalore, and holds a BTech (Mechanical) degree from Osmania University.
Krishnan Narayana
AVP – Business Development, ASM Technologies Limited
Krishnan has 22 years of experience in Information Technology, Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship.
Business Development, Corporate Strategy, Mentoring & Building Leaders, Operations and Entrepreneurship are the major functions handled as a part of his Senior Management portfolio.
As a Business Head for ASM Technologies, Krishnan plays a strategic role in Business Development, Team/ Organization Motivation, Strategy Planning, People Management, Client Management & Operations Management. He handles customers in India, Asia-Pac, US & EMEA regions.
Krishnan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Production Engineering.
Anuj Vaid
General Manager, Wipro Infotech
Anuj is is responsible for all Wipro products & services sales, presales and delivery engagements in these accounts. Prior to joining Wipro, Anuj spent over a decade focused on Enterprise Software sales across India and US.
Sachit Murthy,
Director , Manthan Systems
In his current role, Sachit heads Global Sales at Manthan Systems. He has over 17 years of experience in various capacities of sales & marketing organisations in IT products and services companies.
Sachit has strong exposure to the retail & distribution domain and is currently responsible for all sales and marketing initiatives at Manthan Systems. He has served the analytical needs of several global retail brands like Woolworths, McDonald&rsquot;s, Carrefour, Louis Vuitton and Etam.
Abhishek Sahay
Director, Business Development APAC & MENA, Talisma Corporation
Abhishek Sahay has over 15 years of industry experience. He has been working for Talisma for more than 6 years now and currently heading the business development activity for APAC and Middle East and North Africa region. Before joining Talisma he was working with Symphony Services as lead consultant. As an ideator, Abhishek’s colleagues always saw him coming up with great out-of-the-box ideas and learning in difficult customer situations that will really help sales people. This IIT Khargpur alumnus is also known to have broken some old moulds to create more efficient and effective processes in Talisma. He also had brief stints with Reliance Industries and Cambridge Technology Partners.
Shajy Koshy
Head Sales - South & East Region, Mphasis, an HP Company
Shajy is a Sales and Marketing professional with a flair for creative sales. He has over 15 years of industry experience in sales as well as marketing of software, hardware, services, with a greater insight into a solutions positioning from a customer&rsquot;s perspective. Shajy joined Mphasis in March this year from Oracle India where he was working as regional sales manager-Services. Before Oracle, Shajy had stints with IBM Global, SCO Group and Tata Infotech (Now TCS). Shajy holds an MBA degree from the University of Pune.
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