Manoj Purohit

CEO

Singapore, Singapore21 yrs 10 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of leadership in sales and consulting.
  • Closed $100+ million deals in strategic pursuits.
  • Ranked among top 5 Java programmers in Singapore.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Fintech and SaaS with expertise in sales and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

SalesLeadershipSalesforceDigital StrategyCrm StrategyDigital TransformationFinancial ServicesPre-salesValue EngineeringEnterprise ArchitectureMcommerceBusiness DevelopmentAi SolutionsSoftware EngineeringPayment SolutionsMobile PaymentsStartup ManagementEcommerceBanking Solutions

Other Skills

Digital SalesAI-led innovationZuoraDigital technologiesCustomer ExperienceCRMConsultingArtificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingPayment GatewayOnline Betting SystemPayment Gateway SystemsB2B eCommerceBanking ProjectsITIL

About

- Business leader with 20+ yrs of Sales, Pre-Sales, strategy, management consulting and IT consulting experience with domain understanding of Banking, Payments, RCG, Telco's and Online gaming industry. - Grew business in strategic accounts and closed large $100+ Mil deals in strategic pursuits. - Incubated and managed new business units with P&L responsibilities. - Startup experience as Tech Founder of software company driving mCommerce in Asian Markets during dot com. - Managed geographically dispersed, high performing team. Able to motivate and retain top talent. - Experience in building mCommerce business (Mobile Payments, Mobile Banking), Cloud computing (*aaS) and AI based Solutions. - Able to drive sales from early and conceptual stage with high energy to get lighhouse wins and create foundation for medium to long term success. - Filed patents on mobility and Pymt systems. - Ranked among top 5 Java programmers in S'pore in year 2000.

Experience

21 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

9 yrs 6 mos

Microsoft

Present

Sap

Regional Head of Corporate - APAC

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · Singapore

  • I lead a 600-strong APAC Corporate team at SAP, spanning Field Sales, Channel Sales, Digital Sales, Pre-Sales, Value Engineering, and Digital Hub teams, together with outstanding Area VPs across India, Japan, Korea, Greater China, ANZ, and ASEAN reporting to me.
  • Our mission is bold and clear: help customers accelerate growth through GROW with SAP, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, and AI-led innovation. We are building a cloud-first, partner-powered operating model to scale SAP’s Corporate business to €1Bn, with Corporate contributing 40% of SAP’s overall APAC revenue.
  • We will shape the future of corporate by empowering teams, enabling partners, and helping customers modernise with speed, simplicity, and confidence as they embrace the next era of cloud and AI.
SalesPre-SalesDigital SalesValue EngineeringAI-led innovationLeadership

Malaysia fintech chamber of commerce (mftcc)

Advisory Board Member

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • https://mftcc.org.my/
  • As a board member, i will be advising the FinTech companies grow in the region and expand their market share

Veripark

Advisory Board Member

Jul 2023Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

  • Veripark is a Microsoft ISV focused on Financial Services industry. As board member I will be supporting their growth aspirations

Vcgroup

Executive Board Member

Nov 2020Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Singapore

Accenture

3 roles

Practice Lead - Salesforce and Zuora

Mar 2015Mar 2016 · 1 yr

  • Grew the Salesforce practice charter to include the Zuora.
  • Key focus and responsibilities included:
  • As Practice Head for Salesforce.com and Zuora, I manage all key functions to grow business - sales, presales as well as delivery team onshore and offshore, operations etc
  • Led strategic customer engagements across the region as expert in Financial services domain and apply digital technologies to solve customer experience issues
  • Regular interlock with Accenture Global SaaS team and key stakeholders at Salesforce.Com and Zuora to grow business and decide on strategic initiatives and investments.
  • Drive CXO engagements on strategic levers around Customer Experience, Revenue/Cost levers
SalesforceZuoraDigital technologiesCustomer ExperienceDigital Strategy

Practice Lead - Salesforce & CRM Domain

Apr 2014Mar 2015 · 11 mos

  • After working with Accenture Digital I was given opportunity to setup a new practice for Salesforce platform and to grow business in South East Asia.
  • Started the practice grounds up with first hires in the group and grew the practice in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines as primary focus.
  • Key focus and responsibilities included:
  • As Practice Head for Salesforce.com, I manage all key functions to grow business - sales, presales as well as delivery team onshore and offshore, operations etc I built the team across the region as well as grew delivery capabilities offshore.
  • Regular interlock with Accenture Global SaaS team and key stakeholders at Salesforce.Com to grow business.
  • Drive CXO engagements on strategic levers around Customer Experience, Revenue/Cost levers
  • CRM Domain lead for SaaS and responsible for setting up new practice for Salesforce.com
SalesforceCRMDigital technologiesCRM Strategy

Lead - Digital Strategy & Consulting

Sep 2013Apr 2014 · 7 mos

  • Joined Accenture Digital to grow business in South East Asia with focus on strategic deal pursuits above $20mil.
  • Led engagements at CEO and Board level to drive key Digital deals to drive the Digital transformation initiative for strategic customers.
  • Responsible for leading digital business growth and strategy opportunities in Financial Services and
  • Products Operating Group with focus on mCommerce, P2P, mTicketing, Remittance, SFA, employee productivity etc.
  • Created new business models to tap Accenture Digital platform and created new revenue streams to drive net new revenue for customers.
Digital StrategyConsultingFinancial ServicesDigital Transformation

Cisco

2 roles

Head FSI Enterprise Solution Sales - APAC & Japan

May 2010Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Led Sales, Pre-sales and Value Engineering for Financial Services for APJ (Asia-Pac and Japan) for enterprise customers. Pre-sales team included the enterprise architects that we invested in key strategic accounts.
  • Managed regional team dispersed across different locations to support key customers in APAC.
  • Led Top 20 FSI Customer Engagements in APJC with regular interlock with CXO's as part of steering committe and deliverables.
  • Led engagements with focus on Omni-channel Contact Center, Collaboration, Kiosk, ATM Solutions, Retail banking branch, Data Center & Network Architecture solutions together with partners to sell business application solutions for e.g. CRM, mCommerce etc pre-packaged with infrastructure.
  • Led charge for incubating new solutions for customers, including multi-factor Kiosk solution addressing omni-channel integration needs.
  • Led business & tech discussions with CEO & CIO's to bridge gaps between IT & business for FSI domain.
  • Led Financial Services Solutions for Consumer & Retail Banking, Internet Banking, Web 2.0 banking, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Branch Optimization etc.
  • Represented Cisco Financial Services business across the region for all media interviews including TV, Newspapers, Blogs, Events etc.
SalesPre-salesValue Engineering

Value Engineering and Pre Sales Lead (FSI-APJC)

Apr 2008May 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Led Value Engineering, presales team and enterprise architecture team with deep banking domain expertise.
  • Led business value engagements for strategic Banking customers in Asia-Pac with focus in India, Australia and ASEAN countries.
  • Drive strategy & business discussions with key stake holders and create foundation, advanced, and end-state architecture to support business initiatives. Align partners and solutions for new solutions
  • Responsible for overall customer engagement by leading strategy discussions, assembling SWAT team and delivering blueprint architecture based on TOGAF framework
Value EngineeringPresalesEnterprise Architecture

Sap

2 roles

Business Development & Pre-Sales Lead

May 2007Apr 2008 · 11 mos · Singapore

  • Led mCommerce (mBanking & mPayments) business across Asia-Pac
  • Led Business & Architectural engagements at CXO level with top accounts in banking and Telcos for mCommerce strategy & offerings.
  • Worked at Sybase which got acquired by SAP.
mCommerceBusiness DevelopmentPre-sales

Principal Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales

May 2005May 2007 · 2 yrs · Singapore

  • Led pre-sales and architectural engagements for top enterprise customers. Focus on Artificial Intelligence and natural language processing solutions as part of Omni-channel offerings.
  • Industry focus on banking and telco
  • Received one provisional patent for artificial intelligence algorithm on predicting users intent based on tokenized inputs on any channel (Web, SMS, USSD, WAP, Chat, Email, Voice etc)
  • Worked at Sybase which got acquired by SAP
Pre-salesArtificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingAI Solutions

St electronics (info-comm systems) pte ltd

Technical Manager

Nov 2002May 2005 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Singapore

  • Led a team of exceptionally smart software engineers and architects. Created a new payment gateway grounds up to connect banks (Citi, ABN Amro, Maybank, DBS, OCBC, UOB), NETS and 3 Telco's in Singapore (StarHub, Singtel, M1) allowing any user with mobile phone or internet connection to initiate transactions for commerce.
  • Architected and led a team of talented engineers on the online betting system with bet placement available till the last second, the only system with this feature in market during 2002/2003.
  • Architected and designed Starhub prepaid top-up system allowing multi-mode top-up
Software EngineeringPayment GatewayOnline Betting SystemPayment Solutions

Mpayment pte ltd

Tech Founder

Nov 2000Nov 2002 · 2 yrs · Singapore

  • Focused on mobile payments projects with credit card companies, banks and payment gateway systems with NLI interface for understanding context of the users input. The context could be location, time etc. We were among the very few companies in the market place focused on mobile payments during dot com. Initial year or so was spent under stealth mode under a different brand of airgateway
Mobile PaymentsPayment Gateway SystemsStartup Management

Pentasoft malaysia

Consultant

Jan 1999Jan 2000 · 1 yr · Selangor, Malaysia

  • Worked on B2B eCommerce, Insurance and Banking projects for customers in Asia-Pac
B2B eCommerceBanking ProjectseCommerceBanking Solutions

Education

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

National University of Singapore

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