Sivasankaran Lakshminarayanan — CEO

* Over 35 years of work experience in the I.T vendors in the areas of running Country Head for Storage Business, Government business, Partner lead Sales, Product Business management and Technology management * A Business Leader with high energy who is able to transform vision into action by being someone who is able to “walk the talk” and lead action by example. Able to attract, inspire, lead, mentor and manage talented leaders, managers and individual contributors. *Creates and actively cultivates a work environment that emphasizes professionalism, positive morale, a “can-do” attitude, accuracy, timeliness, respect for others, honesty, opportunity for career growth and development and an atmosphere that rewards “thinking outside the box” and going beyond minimum job requirements. Specialties: * Good knowledge of the India market place with strong CxO level relationships with diverse customers across Education & Research, Government, Media, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, ITES and other industry segments.  *Mentoring, Team-building, Sales, Channel and Change Management. *Strategic Alliances & Partnership with ISVs, Systems Integrators, Distributors, VARs, Education partners and Developers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in IT and education sectors with extensive experience in business development and strategic management.

Location: Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India

Experience: 43 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Leadership
Business Development
Education
Program Management
Business Strategy
Sales Management
Government Business
Public Sector Management
Storage Management
Sales Leadership
Customer Relationship Management
Technical Management
Software Development
Engineering

Career Highlights

Over 35 years of leadership experience in IT.
Strong CxO relationships across diverse industries.
Expert in mentoring and team-building.

Work Experience

NVIDIA

Head Strategic Initiatives (3 yrs 3 mos)

Head Quadro Business Asia South (1 yr 6 mos)

myBeanstalk Academy

Chief Empowering Officer (14 yrs 10 mos)

Sun Microsystems

Director & Head : Commercial Systems Business (1 yr 1 mo)

Director & Head Storage Practice (2 yrs 8 mos)

Sun Microsytems India

Director & Head Government (11 mos)

SGI

Director Sales (5 yrs 6 mos)

National Sales Manager (11 mos)

Channel Business Development Manager (11 mos)

National Manager Technical Marketing (4 yrs)

HCL America

Project Manager @ HP LABS Chelmsford-USA and Bangalore (3 yrs 6 mos)

Engineers India Ltd

Systems Engineer (5 yrs 11 mos)

ACC Babcock Ltd

Desgin Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)

Education

BE at Anna University Chennai

Part Time MBA at Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi

BE (Hons) at Anna University Chennai

at Don Bosco Vellore , TN, India

at Don Bosco

Sivasankaran Lakshminarayanan

CEO

Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India43 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 35 years of leadership experience in IT.
Strong CxO relationships across diverse industries.
Expert in mentoring and team-building.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in IT and education sectors with extensive experience in business development and strategic management.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipBusiness DevelopmentEducationProgram ManagementBusiness StrategySales ManagementGovernment BusinessPublic Sector ManagementStorage ManagementSales LeadershipCustomer Relationship ManagementTechnical ManagementSoftware DevelopmentEngineering

Other Skills

MentoringTeam-buildingSalesChannel ManagementChange ManagementLife Skills TrainingProgram DevelopmentStrategic ConsultingSales Strategy DevelopmentBusiness LeadershipStrategic AdviceRevenue GrowthCustomer SatisfactionMarket ExpansionProject Management

About

Experience

43 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

14 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Nvidia

2 roles

Head Strategic Initiatives

Aug 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

Head Quadro Business Asia South

Jan 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

Currently heading the Quadro Graphics Business for NVIDIA.
Strategic Consulting, business plan & sales strategy development and implementation for Quadro Workstation Business for NVIDIA

Strategic ConsultingSales Strategy DevelopmentBusiness StrategySales Management

Mybeanstalk academy

Chief Empowering Officer

Jul 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

myBeanstalk Academy ( http://mybeanstalk.co.in/ ) is in the business of providing Life Skills training to Young Students in the age group of 13 to 22.
Mission :To empower young minds to Live Life Full with Joy and Passion
Succeed Program is the flagship program from myBeanstalk Academy.This program transforms young students to create life balance, achieve academic success, manage time and craft action plans

MentoringTeam-buildingSalesChannel ManagementChange ManagementLeadership+1

Sun microsystems

2 roles

Director & Head : Commercial Systems Business

Jun 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

Responsible for the Commercial Sales Systems business for Sun-Oracle Systems. Part of the APAC Commercial Management team, to co-ordinate, strategize, execute the Commercial systems business GTM for India.

Director & Head Storage Practice

Nov 2006 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Responsible that Sun became a credible independent Storage Vendor in the industry.
To achieve Sun India revenue and margin goal for Sun Storage Products
To grow Sun's penetration in Key Enterprise customer accounts.
To provide effective employee development by coaching and feedback.
To ensure high levels of Customer satisfaction.
Member of the Sun India Senior Management Team in India and APAC/Emerging market region.
Received the best performing Sun Storage business leader award across Sun Worldwide for FY08

Revenue GrowthCustomer SatisfactionStorage ManagementSales Leadership

Sun microsytems india

Director & Head Government

Jul 2009 – Jun 2010 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for developing Government, Public Sector, Education, Healthcare industry for Sun Hardware business in India.
Provided business leadership and strategic advice, aligning functional area plans and activities with broader company plans.
Represented the organization to the external business, partner, alliance and government communities in the pursuit of building market awareness and relationships.

Business LeadershipStrategic AdviceGovernment BusinessPublic Sector Management

Sgi

4 roles

Director Sales

Promoted

Apr 2001 – Oct 2006 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

To provide Leadership role to the Sales, Presales and Customer support team
To Build a strong Sales organization to deliver consistent results
Expanded market share in existing and new business segments : Energy, Government, Manufacturing, and Research
Member of the SGI Senior Management Team in India and APAC region.
Awards
Winner of the ICON Senior VP award for FY2004 and selected for ICON Club Excellence FY2004.
Winner of ICON Hero awards FOUR times.
Winner of the largest Order award in SGI ICON Region FY-2002

Sales LeadershipMarket ExpansionSales ManagementCustomer Relationship Management

National Sales Manager

Promoted

Apr 2000 – Mar 2001 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for the new emerging markets such as Telecom, Media, Energy and Data warehousing markets.
Work closely with the worldwide team to implement the GTM strategies.

Channel Business Development Manager

Promoted

Apr 1999 – Mar 2000 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for Channel driven business for the South and East market.

National Manager Technical Marketing

Mar 1994 – Mar 1998 · 4 yrs · Delhi

To lead the Presales support team
Marketing support and market development for Data mining & Datawarehousing, Web, Simulation, Entertainment, Education & Research and Commercial Database market.
Channel Sales force development in the above new emerging markets. Channel relationship building and Channel empowerment to facilitate SGI’s indirect business model.

Hcl america

Project Manager @ HP LABS Chelmsford-USA and Bangalore

Sep 1990 – Mar 1994 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Under deputation to HP-Chelmsford USA (90-92) and HP-ISO Bangalore 93-94.
Member of the HP-MPower product development team. Main responsibilities include S/W project management and liasoning between HP-Chelmsford and HP-ISO for various offshore software export projects.
Identified various offshore software development opportunities for HP-ISO. Successfully demonstrated offshore software development projects in Image Processing, HP-MPower multimedia tools and HP/Apollo Graphics world wide support implementation.

Engineers india ltd

Systems Engineer

Oct 1984 – Sep 1990 · 5 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi

Member of the Engineering, CAD s/w development team. Involved in developing CAD,CAE, Analysis, GUI packages for application such as Structural Analysis, AEC & Piping Design, Process Control, Engineering Drawing etc.,
Main responsibilities include: to understand thoroughly various engineering practices of EIL and provide CAD/CAE application tools for improving their productivity and their work flow.
Provide consultancy services to EIL's customers.

Project ManagementSoftware DevelopmentTechnical Management