Feb 2019 – Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos

• Passionately leading Mercer Mettl to make it the most credible voice in the Talent measurement space.

Apr 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• My big leap into the world of Entrepreneurship!
• I join the dynamic founder duo, Ketan and Tonmoy at Mettl.
• Mettl is a cloud based platform for Talent measurement. More than 1600 + organizations spread across 88 countries trust Mettl to hire and develop talent.
• As the Chief Revenue Officer, my vision is to make Mettl the SalesForce.com of the assessment world. With Customer success at the heart of every step ahead, my focus will be to build a Winning Culture by investing in building Winning teams.
• Beyond working with Enterprise's, under my watch we will strive to work harder with Government of India on "Skill India" as well at spreading Digital Literacy by being part of Digital India.
• Everyone who believes has the "Mettl" is welcome to ping and be part of the journey.
• Cheers
• Sid

Oct 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• SAP
• October 2014–Present (9 months)
• New Delhi, India
• Vice President Strategic Industries-
• I took over as VP of Strategic Industries for SAP in India in October. SI has a team of most experienced and talented Sales Professionals supported by a passionate Technical and Industry experts. Our focus is on addressing Automation needs of Public Services, Public Sector Undertaking and Public Utilities.
• Geographically aligned, have a team of 3 Managers and 17 Sales Directors. This Line of Business is chosen as one of the growth Pillars for SAP in India and I have been tasked to revive SAP’s efforts in the same.
• I inherit an excellent legacy of Customers, Partners and People.
• Success Mantra - Less but better (Extreme focus)
• Key KPI - People (Team, Customer and Partners) should have fun

Jan 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

• In 2013, SAP India felt a dire need to revive and turn around our performance in core sectors like Oil & Gas (Upstream, Mid-Stream, and Downstream), Petrochemicals, Power Generation, Heavy Engineering and Metals & Mining.
• A new Sales Sub vertical called “Key -PSU’s within Strategic Industries was created which represented the largest License installed base of SAP India in core Industries.
• As a leader of this Vertical, I was asked to evangelize SAP’s innovations for these industries, recruit, train and retain a team of five Senior Account Directors for:
• Rebuilding SAP’s position as a trusted advisor to the Boards of these Companies.
• Introducing SAP’s innovations to the customers, partners and the influencers.
• Created capabilities with in SAP and with the external stakeholders to address the needs of these customers better.
• Built high growth and sustainable business for SAP in this sector.
• Over the course of my tenure, SAP has regained its presence in this Strategic Sub-Vertical, we achieved a performance which is more than double of SAP’s average performance from this sector in the last 5 years.
• I have also created a team (Account Directors and Virtual Account Team) which is passionate about making a difference every single day.

Jan 2008 – Dec 2012 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• SAP India formed a new Line of Business (LOB) called Public Services in 2008. Our objective was to scale up SAP's share of wallet in the automation spends of Central Government, State Government and Utilities.
• I moved from SAP's regional office in Bangalore to lead a part of this team. As a team, over 5 years we made SAP a dominant player in many industries namely Ports, Airports, Defence, Utility (Generation, transmission & Distribution), Chemical & Fertilizer, Railways etc.
• In 2012, the team strength was three Managers for North, East and Central Government and 8 Account Managers reporting to them. The experience of driving some of the most complex sales cycles and managing a very talented team of professionals has been inspiring.
• Some noteworthy achievements are - Our empanelment at DGS&D and NICSI, Indian Navy's automation, our foray into Indian Railways, Airports, Indian Airlines, automation of Department of Post, Significant wins in Utility Sector namely Power Grid and more than 10 State Distribution entities under the APDRP program.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs · Bangalore and Delhi

• Post Compaq's acquisition by HP, I decided to move into the Southern Regional Sales team of HP Operating out of their Bangalore office.
• Managed every part of HP's businesses starting from PC's and Entry Level Servers to Complex Enterprise Solutions and Services offerings to Large Companies like Unilever, Wipro etc.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• This was the most coveted post created in Compaq Computers; every Business School intern had to compete for this role.
• Designed as one year tenure, EA to the MD literally got a ring side view to running a Multinational company in India. This stint gave me the privilege to work with one of the most admirable Business leaders of India.
• Compaq’s Top Management included Neelam Dhawan, current MD of HP India, Rajeev Srivastava, Som Satsangi, Kapil Jain, Zarir Batliwala and other illustrious members who are at the helm of affairs of many leading Technology Companies in India (including HP)