Vikram Chakrabarty — Sales Executive
Proven thought leader, with critical thinking and problem solving abilities. Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills, bringing out the best from my team and creating new leaders. 21+ Years in IT Industry 5+ Years at Apttus, a category defining, middle office SaaS platform provider. Currently leading global pre sales at Aavenir, a premier SaaS solution provider in the Source To Pay space with focus on Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), Accounts Payable Automation and RFP process Automation, built on ServiceNow platform. At Aavenir, I lead global pre-sales, running in depth engagements with prospects and their key business stake holders from procurement, sourcing, legal and finance to help them see and understand the value offered by our products and solutions. As an extended role, I also lead all service deliveries in the Contract Lifecycle Management space and I have successfully delivered three LIVE CLM customers for Aavenir in a short span of SIX MONTHS! Managing entire presales, sales engineering function at Apttus India, that includes customized product demonstrations, developing PoC's and demonstrating the essential value proposition to CIO's, CFO's, CTO's etc. Was instrumental in transforming India into a new and fast growing market for Apttus middle office SaaS products from scratch. Touched big dollar numbers within only two years of starting the presales, sales engineering function in India. Additionally, at Apttus, I also play the role of an Enterprise Solution Architect, transforming business expectations into well architected solutions, using sound architectural fundamentals and best practices. These solutions are then showcased as PoC's to prospects, with key messaging and value propositioning, thus helping win business and grow revenue for the company. Being a versatile techno-functional expert, I also support various key post sales engagements, such as post go-live architectural reviews, in order to suggest improvements and alternate design ideas that may help organisations to extract better value from their implementations. Prior to Apttus, extensive architectural experience in the technology services delivery industry, Entrepreneurial initiative and experience, by founding and starting a small tech startup, running it successfully for a couple of years. As the technology expert in this startup, I was instrumental in conceptualizing, architecting and developing a software product and taking it to the market, meeting with moderate success.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with extensive experience in pre-sales and solution architecture.
Location: Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom
Experience: 23 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Pre-sales
- Contract Lifecycle Management
Career Highlights
- Led successful CLM implementations for large BFSI clients.
- Transformed India into a fast-growing market for SaaS products.
- Expert in pre-sales and solution architecture.
Work Experience
Conga
Sr. Principal Sales Engineer | Strategic Accounts EMEA (9 mos)
Principal Sales Engineer (3 yrs 1 mo)
Principal Sales Engineer Strategic Accounts EMEA (3 yrs 1 mo)
Aavenir
Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Product Expert & Transformation Advisor (1 yr 7 mos)
Hansen
Lead Solutions Architect (8 mos)
eightfold.ai
Solutions Engineering Manager (1 mo)
Apttus
Senior Solution Consultant Enterprise SaaS Solutions - CPQ, CLM & SRM (5 yrs 5 mos)
Architect, Expert & Technologist Middle Office Enterprise Applications, Quote To Cash, CLM, CPQ (5 yrs 5 mos)
Varologic Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Technical Architect (3 mos)
Mansi Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Technical Architect (7 mos)
GiveIndia
Project Leader (Technology) (1 yr 4 mos)
VA Associates Software Engineers
Technical Architect (10 mos)
Commercial Pilot
Commercial Pilot (1 yr 10 mos)
Triumph Information Systems
Project Consultant and Corporate Trainer (2 yrs 4 mos)
Hexaware Technologies
Systems Analyst (5 mos)
Deloitte Consulting
Senior Analyst (11 mos)
ICICI Infotech
Sr. Software Engineer (4 yrs 5 mos)
Floatglass India Ltd.
Systems Executive (5 mos)
Concourse Information Technology
IT Trainer (2 mos)
Boston Software Technologies
IT Trainer (1 yr)
Education
MCA at Madurai Kamaraj University
Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Mumbai
Bsc at University of Mumbai