Ashish Thakur

Business Development Executive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in driving revenue growth in cloud sales.
  • Strong relationships with major tech partners like Dell and Lenovo.
  • Proven track record in customer relationship management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Sales and Business Development expert with a focus on strategic partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Account ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCloud SalesCustomer Relationship ManagementSales

Other Skills

StrategyTerritory DevelopmentSolution SalesAcquisition SpecialistAzure Cloud MigrationCloud ModernizationData & AnalyticsSecurity SolutionsProductivity SolutionsInterpersonal SkillsRevenue ManagementTeam ManagementDemand GenerationCross-Functional Team ManagementPublic Speaking

About

Ashish serves as an Account Manager- OEM in Red Hat, where he is responsible for driving revenue growth and managing strategic relationships with Dell and Lenovo in India. With a robust background in Cloud Sales, Key Account Management, Channel Development, Territory Expansion, Demand Generation, and Cross-Functional Team management, Ashish brings a wealth of experience from his work across diverse regions in India’s cloud and hardware sectors. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing and Business Analytics, and is well-versed in customer and partner management, strategic planning, negotiation, people leadership, and relationship-building. His passion for technology and innovation fuels his drive to collaborate closely with clients, partners, and internal teams to deliver impactful, value-driven solutions. Beyond the professional realm, Ashish is a dedicated fitness and sports enthusiast, believing that discipline and resilience in life translate to success in business. “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally; it comes from what you do consistently.”

Experience

6 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Ibm

Partner Account Manager (Red Hat)- OEM's

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · India · On-site

Xencia technology solutions

4 roles

Enterprise Account Manager

Apr 2025Sep 2025 · 5 mos

Sr. Account Manager- Enterprise & SMC Accounts

Promoted

Jul 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Driving Revenue Growth: Leading revenue growth by managing and expanding customer relationships for Microsoft Azure, Security, and M365 solutions across India.
  • New Customer Acquisition: Actively engaging with clients across industries such as ITES, BFSI, Logistics, Fintech, Pharmaceutical, Media, and Manufacturing. I work to understand their business needs and deliver tailored Azure, Security, M365, Data, and AI solutions, successfully onboarding them to the Azure platform.
  • Customer Relationship Management: Building and fostering strong, long-term relationships by offering strategic guidance on optimizing Azure deployments for enhanced efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Distributor Collaboration: Cultivating key partnerships with distributors to ensure seamless collaboration, smooth service delivery, and mutual growth.
  • Microsoft Relationship Management: Acting as the key liaison between Microsoft and Xencia, I drive joint go-to-market strategies, maximizing growth opportunities and strengthening the partnership.
  • In my role, I drive customer engagement on the core technologies where Xencia excels, including Azure Cloud Migration, Cloud Modernization (microservices, Kubernetes, containerization, databases), Data & Analytics (AI & ML, cloud-scale analytics), Azure Cognitive Services (including Azure OpenAI), as well as Business Continuity, Security Solutions (Microsoft Defender, Azure Sentinel), and Productivity Solutions tailored around M365.
StrategySalesTerritory DevelopmentAccount ManagementSolution SalesAcquisition Specialist+1

Sr. Business Development Manager- Corporate Accounts and SMC Scale (TUM)

Aug 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr

StrategySalesTerritory DevelopmentAccount ManagementSolution SalesAcquisition Specialist+2

Business Development Manager- TUM

Dec 2021Aug 2022 · 8 mos

  • Responsible for growing revenue by managing existing customer and augmenting new customer for Microsoft Azure business predominantly for TUM accounts across India.
  • Responsible for reaching out to new set of customer consisting of various industries and positioning right set of workload, and onboarding them on Azure.
  • Maintaining existing customer relationship and consulting them on right workload on Azure.
  • Responsible for maintaining and nourishing the relationship with Vendor and Distributors.
StrategySalesTerritory DevelopmentAccount ManagementSolution SalesAcquisition Specialist+2

Tech data

3 roles

Business Development Manager- Microsoft Azure

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos

  • Assigned to lead the business of Microsoft Azure from a channel sales perspective in the region of Karnataka,Kerala, AP and Telangana. Formed go-
  • to-market strategies and played a vital role in ensuring the implementation of the same hence resulting to business growth from start-ups, SMB, and enterprise customers via partners.
  • Key Contributions:
  •  Responsible for the management of Azure business in Karnataka, Kerala, AP and Telangana.
  •  Dealing in a total of 3 major industry verticals namely start-ups, SMB and enterprise.
  •  Engaged and maintained strong relations with existing as well as new partner stakeholders and decision makers for Azure business.
  •  Collaborated with various internal functions like pre-sales, sales, marketing and support team to ensure fluent assistance for partners and customers.
  •  Organized and presented several PRTs, CRTs, demos, POCs, surge-days, workshops, and enablement sessions. All of these have been key contributors to the demand generation for the partners.
StrategySalesTerritory DevelopmentInterpersonal SkillsBusiness Development

Business Development Manager - HPE

Promoted

Jan 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Got assigned assignment to manage sales of HPE in the South region where I’m handling 100+ partners and onboard 26 new partners.
  • Managing stock & sell as well as well as back to back business for HPE across Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
  • Worked along side Non managed partner to increase the business reach for the organization.
  • Contributed in achieving Best Distributor Award HPE – Stock & Sell in Karnataka during COVID19.
StrategySalesTerritory DevelopmentInterpersonal SkillsBusiness Development

Business Development Executive - HPE

Feb 2019Feb 2020 · 1 yr

  • Joined as a Management Trainee and served the probation for 6 months during which I learned the channel sales model, go-to-market, and helped drive the business on a ground level. Generated business from non-managed partners in Mumbai while handling HPE as a product.
  • Key Contributions:
  • Handled 70+ partners across Mumbai doing HPE business.
  • Helped slingshot Simplivity-HCI sales and resurrect sales of Simplivity as a new product in the market and helped it compete against its closest competitor being Nutanix and Dell - EMC VxRail.
  • Onboarded 40+ new transacting partners during my tenure in Mumbai
  • Planned and executive GTM along with NMFT(Non-Managed Partners) executives to generate new business for HPE.
SalesTerritory DevelopmentInterpersonal SkillsBusiness Development

Punjab agro juices limited - india

Internship Trainee

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

  • Punjab Agro Juices Ltd. offered me certification under the project title "Introduction of Punjuice in the market and estimating its market potential". During the project I interacted with 117 clients including hotels,colleges,distributors and retailers across Chandigarh,Punchkula and Zirakpur. I learnt how much pivotal is the knowledge about the product,competitors and market place in sales.
Interpersonal Skills

Big bazaar - future retail

Intern

Jan 2018Feb 2018 · 1 mo · Amritsar/Ludhiana Area

Interpersonal Skills

Kellogg company

Intern

Oct 2017Dec 2017 · 2 mos · Amritsar/Ludhiana Area

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Lovely Professional University

Master of Business Administration — Marketing and Business Analytics

Jan 2017Jan 2019

Himachal Pradesh University

Bachelor's in Science — Physics

D.A.V Public School, Greyoh

12 — Science

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