Chandra K

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India26 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 25+ years of experience in ICT and Market Research.
  • Proven track record of driving transformation at scale.
  • Expert in building strategic partnerships and GTM strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on business development and strategic growth.

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Strategic Business DevelopmentFounderCEOBusiness DevelopmentStrategyTeam ManagementPre-salesSalesCloud ComputingVendor ManagementMarketingMarket ResearchDirect SalesConsultingStrategic Planning

About

A successful, seasoned and passionate Business Growth Leader with 25+ years’ experience in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Market Research Industry. Helped large organization BU’s as well as mid to late-stage startups - scale, grow, and enable their GTM strategies for success.. Prefer to take up challenging leadership assignments and drive transformation at scale. Won numerous awards and recognitions over past many years for my high performance, integrity and a Rainmaker! • Facilitate creation and adoption of strategies, fosters organizational alignment, drive revenue, manage operational execution, achieves critical business objectives and creates a sustainable winning culture. • Proven capabilities to deliver in the face of adverse market situations, team leadership and sales & marketing strategy. • An astute market understanding in strategic and consultative sales, with the ability and credibility to engage the client’s “C-Suite” and winning their trust and loyalty. • Mentoring high performance culture, developing next-gen leaders, delivering successful & sustainable growth with a strong belief that Excellence Is Habit! • Rich exposure to initiating businesses in nascent markets, setting up of channel and creating teams from near scratch coupled with significant exposure to brand management, pricing, and communication strategy. • Target high close percentage of over 70% of all qualified opportunities pursued, resulting in an over achievement of sales goals. • Develop as well as nurture long term strategic partnerships for enhanced business prospects, spreading goodwill and augmenting business prospects, re-structuring (design /implement) new policies & processes to smoothen out tools alignment and operations. An ethical and engaged leader with deep strategic insight, belief in excellence coupled with a ‘get it done’ attitude. Overall responsible for Building Organizations through aligned culture and revenue growth.

Experience

Kpmg

Advisor AI Products and Solutions

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos · India · Remote

  • Advisor AI Products and Solutions aligning with Performance Transformation Services and Strategy.

Big oh tech

Chief Sales Officer (CSO)

Aug 2025Present · 8 mos · India

Sliance

Chief Executive Officer

Jul 2025Present · 9 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Sales as a Service (BDaaS) — AI-Augmented
  • Faster BD with intelligence that learns and scales. AI-Powered Enhancements:
  • Opportunity discovery with AI Agents and web intelligence
  • Auto-generated proposals & pitch decks
  • LLM-generated custom sales scripts
  • Agentic/AI-powered meeting scheduling & follow-ups
  • NLP-based feedback analysis from prospects
  • Sales Outsourcing — AI-Enhanced
  • Accelerate revenue with human-led, AI Agents-powered sales operations. Offerings include:
  • AI-based lead scoring & qualification
  • Predictive sales forecasting
  • CRM automation using NLP and ML
  • Agentic & conversational AI for outbound engagement
  • Dynamic email & campaigns generation using GenAI
  • Strategy Consulting — AI-Driven
  • We merge human strategy with AI-generated intelligence to give you an edge. AI Capabilities include:
  • Market intelligence using AI-scraping & clustering
  • AI-based competitor benchmarking
  • LLM-powered strategic roadmap simulations
  • Scenario Planning with Predictive Modelling
  • Customer segmentation using ML
  • Liaisoning Services — AI-Powered
  • AI Agents act as digital liaison officers — finding, messaging, qualifying, and connecting prospects. AI Solutions include:
  • Client’s voice in our network, new markets or sectors
  • AI-powered scoring and shortlisting channel partners
  • AI matchmaking engine - high-fit decision-makers with intent
  • AI-assisted contract & negotiation support
  • Real-time compliance & document intelligence - Regulatory updates
  • GTM strategic insights to grow and sustain revenues
  • CXO Liasioning
  • Agentic AI/SaaS/PaaS Platform and Pricing Strategy
  • Guiding companies to adopt Agentic AI Transformation
  • Agentic AI and Digital Transformation across business funtions

Costimizer.ai

Co-Founder

Jun 2025Present · 10 mos · Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Building the ultimate AI-powered FinOps platform to reduce cloud costs and boost growth for startups, MSMEs, and enterprises!
  • Our mission is to help businesses scale efficiently by optimising spend and mitigating risks.
  • Reduce cloud expenses by up to 20%
  • Leveraging advanced Agentic AI to drive autonomous FinOps and security automation
  • Enabling businesses to scale efficiently with optimized cloud spend and risk management

Mobius by gaian

Senior Vice President Strategy & Business Development

May 2025Jun 2025 · 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Agentic AI Marketplace Solutions for Govt., Telcos, Enterprises and Research & Academia.
  • Neuro-Symbolic AI Agents for 1000's of Industry use cases, using Blockchain (Web 2, 2.5, 3.0) tokenization economy.

Marketsandmarkets™

Senior Vice President - Client Account Advisory & Strategic Relations

Jun 2024Jun 2025 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Helping Companies discover how Industry players are capitalizing "Insights & Innovation" to drive revenue, predict technology driven disruptions & elevate their strategies with actionable insights.
  • Identify new revenue sources and new - use cases/sub-ecosystems/geographies/customers/partners
  • Stay ahead of market disruptions with upcoming trends and predictive analytics
  • Boost win rates by 50% and enhance strategy success by 30% plus
  • Gen AI, AI, Data & Analytics, 5G/6G Technologies, Sensors, Connected Systems, IoT etc.

Gathr data inc.

Vice President Of Business Development

Jan 2022Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • No Code/Low Code platform for data at scale.
  • Gathr is a modern, cloud-native, zero-code platform for data at scale. The platform offers a unified experience to build ML-powered “data to outcome” applications – spanning data collection, transformation, insights, predictions, and recommendations. It offers enterprise-grade capabilities for ingestion, ETL, CDC, machine learning, analytics, process automation, DevOps, DataOps, MLOps, FinOps, and more.
  • On-prem and SaaS models to fit every size of business and budgets.
  • Gathr.one has proven to be an effective growth platform enabling customers achieve a seamless, adaptive and faster 'Digital Journey'.
  • A world of possibilities, let's connect!

Praxis technologies

SVP

Oct 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Digitalization Solutions
  • Industry 4.0 Automation Solutions
  • Contactless Security and Surveillance Solutions
  • AI based Healthcare Diagnostic Solutions
  • Govt. and Defense Specialized Solutions
  • Healthcare and life sciences marketplace platform - an AI powered marketplace - matches supply and demand across countries and regions.
  • CMO Role with Identivive - Healthcare AI Image Diagnostocs Solutions. Antigen ad Antibody Rapid Test Kits, Airport COVID detection integrated platform.

Marketsandmarkets

Vice President - Business Development & Head of ICT Consulting

Apr 2014Oct 2020 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Global ICT sales leadership role and ICT consult delivery ownership.
  • Providing insights on Revenue Growth Strategies for all my customers, engaging closely with them through annuity contracts, consulting projects and SaaS market intel content subscriptions.
  • Closely tracking IoT, everything Smart, Digitization, Connected Cars, Cognitive/AI and Analytics, AR/VR, Cloud & Cloud Security, Data center & Networking, Mobility & Telecom and other emerging technologies and markets within the ICT space and their implications across verticals and geographies. Providing companies with effective and meaningful insights to further their GTM strategies around Revenues, Technologies, Products, Best Practices, Geographies, Verticals, Consumers, Competitors and other ecosystem players.

Neudesic, an ibm company

Director Sales

Feb 2012Jan 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Premium Microsoft Solutions Partner

Entercoms

Senior Manager - Sales & Marketing

Mar 2008Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

  • Supply chain analytics and forecasting, demand planning and inventory management, SaaS customer 360, aftermarket services - spare parts planning, field service management.

Virtusa

Senior Manager - Marketing

Sep 2006Mar 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • 36 point Quarterly Marketing initiatives - Visibility index, Org Content Management, Proposal Component Library, Advertisements, Campaigns, Events, Seminars, Conferences, Webinars, Employee Collaboration and welfare programs, CSR programs etc.

Itorama

Senior Manager - Business Development

Jun 2005Sep 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand

  • SaaS Products and IT Services

Oracle india pvt. limited

Senior Business Consultant

Sep 2004Jun 2005 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • SoCal regional sales for Oracle suite of products

Macmillan

Manager - International Business

Sep 2001Sep 2004 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • IT Services and Offshore Development Centres

Bristlecone

Regional Sales Manager

May 2000Sep 2001 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • SAP, CRM, IT Services

Wavefront technologies private limited

Manager - Sales & Marketing

Jun 1997May 2000 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

  • Web Technology Services, Internet Banking Product

Education

Indira Institute of Management

MBA — Marketing

Jan 1995Jan 1997

Motilal Nehru College

Bachelors — Mathematics & Economics

Jan 1990Jan 1994

Kendriya Vidyalaya, AFA

12 — Science

Jan 1989Jan 1990

Delhi University

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