Lokesh Kannan

Co-Founder

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India10 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Closed deals over $1.2 Million USD.
  • Founded AI Brains, fostering AI talent.
  • Expert in negotiation and deal-making.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales expert with a strong focus on AI and technology-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyBusiness DevelopmentSolution SellingTechnical PresalesNegotiationSales Management

Other Skills

Account ManagementAutoCADB2B MarketingCRMChallenger SalesCold CallingCommunity OutreachContent WritingContract NegotiationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Digital MarketingE-commerceEngineeringEngineering DesignEngineering Drawings

About

Spent the last 10 years [2015-2025] selling Enterprise grade SaaS software across geographies and teams. I've worked in US, EU, APAC & India markets extensively and closed deals ranging from 2.5K to over 1.2 Million USD. What I am good at : Negotiation, storytelling, Business Strategy & Dealmaking. What I love : Technology, rationality, Mental Models, Deep tech, Sovereign AI, Hardware, Reality. Founded AI Brains, a thriving AI community in Chennai where I organise quarterly meets with professionals using AI for their day to day work. I write on "The AI Brains Newsletter" sporadically about AI companies, technology, business and my understanding of this world.

Experience

Voxyhealth

Sales Advisor

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

  • Voice agents in Healthcare - Global Markets
  • GTM consultant
  • On demand - Account Executive

Navana.ai

Technical Sales Consultant

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

  • Voice Agents in BFSI - India Focused
  • GTM consultant
  • Deal Architect
  • Technical sales

Elevenlabs

GTM - APAC

Mar 2025Aug 2025 · 5 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Pipeline generation for APAC market.
  • Technical Voice AI consultation.
  • Planning and organising Events for Voice agent developers.
  • Contributed to $120K in revenue.
Business DevelopmentCold CallingSolution SellingStrategic ProspectingAccount Management

Rocketlane

2 roles

Account Executive - Mid Market, Enterprise (APAC, India, UK & EMEA)

Promoted

Jan 2024Feb 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

  • Territory : EMEA, APAC and India
  • Work with BDRs in creating account specific outbound playbook.
  • MEDDPIC + LinkedIn + Prospecting tools for qualifying leads
  • Challenger sale [ 4 Box approach] for deals involving competition.
  • Rapid Execution Playbook : Involving multi threading, investor connects, customer reference and case studies.
  • Prepare Business case and measure ROI to justify software spend.
  • Working with channel and technology Partners where needed.
  • Representing Rocketlane in global tech conferences
  • Negotiation and closing.
  • Contributions:
  • 1. Built ROI calculator for PSA teams
  • 2. Closed the second largest deal in Rocketlane history as of Dec 2024, [ Also the most profitable account till date in terms of per user revenue]
  • 3. Closed the largest deal our competitor had after 2 years of follow up and solutioning.
Technical PresalesStrategic ProspectingMEDDIC Sales MethodologyContract NegotiationMultithreaded DevelopmentPresales+3

Sales Manager - SMB

Sep 2021Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · On-site

Sales ProcessesTeam ManagementTechnical PresalesMEDDIC Sales MethodologyNegotiationSales+7

Ai brains

Founder

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

  • At AI Brains, we are creating a seamless ecosystem that supports everything related to AI.
  • We are building separate tracks for AI Startups, Platforms, AI Leaders, professionals and various activities to help foster AI Talent. We conduct online/ offline meetup across cities with a single goal - to enable AI Transformation and bring together people & technology.
  • Host for "The AI Spotlight show" an interview series with Founders, Leaders and professionals.
  • Strategy
  • Partnerships
  • Business Operations
EntrepreneurshipCommunity OutreachBusiness Strategy

Zoho corporation

2 roles

Regional Sales Manager | Europe

Jun 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Closed the largest Enterprise account for Non CRM tools [ Zoho Projects], Total TCV over $1.2 Million USD.
  • Managed an Enterprise account and helped increase the NRR from 3000 USD to over 28K USD in less than 3 years.
  • Enterprise & Mid Market accounts. (Global)
  • Team Management (SDR inbound)
  • Partners management.
  • Driving overall sales for Zoho Projects.
  • Go to Market strategies & product promotions.
  • Monitoring & forecasting revenue, Customer behavior, regression analysis.
  • Product positioning & brand management.

Account Executive - Strategic accounts | US & Canada

Apr 2017Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Enterprise sales and contract negotiations, strategic closure, customer implementation and account management.
  • Cross selling and channel sales.
  • Pacifier, Team-bee, Target chaser and problem solver.
  • Region wise market analysis, monitoring revenue growth and providing sales analytics to the marketing and product teams.
  • Responsible for Non- CRM products, Zoho Workplace, Zoho Projects, Orchestly and Zoho Sprints
  • Driving in business through high level prospecting and co-ordinate with pre-sales, marketing and support teams for further engagement.

Ziffity

Business Development Executive

Jun 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Key Responsibilities :
  • Sales and operations.
  • Cold calling, outbound sales and contract negotiations.
  • Service delivery liaison, pre sales engagement and customer relationship management.
  • High level prospecting, lead validation, proposal preparation/ presentation.
  • Target industry based accounts, source key contact information, hunt for RFI's & RFQ's.
  • Market research and account management.

Education

Anna University

B.E — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

St.Sebastians

Higher Secondary School

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Amrita Vidyalayam

Secondary School Examination (10th Std CBSE) — 10 th std

Jan 1998Jan 2009

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