Prakash TG — Head of Design

20+ years of IT industry experience in Business development, Selling solutions, Technical consultancy business, Large strategic account management, & vendors / partners management. Successful in designing / selling India's first Petaflop supercomputer system including data centre. Extensive vertical segment knowledge in selling solutions to Education & research, (Govt) Manufacturing, Defence, Media, Cloud / Data centres. Worked with Digital (DEC),SGI & currently with Cray. Career highlights: - Successful in solution design, strategic planning, and implementing India’s first Petaflops supercomputer system includes High Performance compute and Storage along with data centre. - Extensively worked on designing complex solutions for high performance computing (HPC), Storage, Data center and media customers. - Experience in selling Peta-scale cluster / supercomputing, complex storage solutions, requirement analysis & creative problem solving, - Expertise in large strategic account management, business development, & Partner engagement / enablement. - Good in articulating value proposition, TCO, & ROI. Advice on short term business & long term growth strategy and helping customer in RFP / tender process. - Effective customer management – Develop & maintain customers confidence / trust, act as mentor. - Experience in managing global customers. - Developed and closed large business to the tune of multi million dollars. - Extensively worked on competition / pricing analysis. Expertise – Designing HPC (High Performance Computing) petascale supercomputing Solutions, Shared memory systems, HPC cloud computing, Multi Petabyte storage solution, Cluster / parallel file systems,& HSM solutions, Solutions for Data centre and Media (Broadcast, Graphics / Visualization) Large strategic account management. Solutions for HPC applications specific requirement, Storage software (HSM) etc.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a High Performance Computing expert with extensive experience in strategic account management and solution design.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 33 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Hpc
Solution Design
Sales

Career Highlights

Designed India's first Petaflop supercomputer system.
Expert in large strategic account management.
Successful in selling complex storage solutions.

Work Experience

NVIDIA

Head - Channel Alliance, South Asia (11 mos)

Business Manager - HPC & AI Supercomputing South Asia (8 yrs 5 mos)

Sr Solution Architect - Asia South (1 yr 6 mos)

Cray Inc.

Presales Manager - Asia Pacific. (1 yr 11 mos)

SGI

Presales Manager - India (13 yrs 1 mo)

BPL Telecom

Manager - Systems & Network design - ISP services (1 yr 3 mos)

ISI Bangalore

Consultant (3 yrs 2 mos)

Digital Equipment Corporation

Customer support Engineer (3 yrs 5 mos)

Education

Masters at Executive MBA from KSOU

Prakash TG

Head of Design

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India33 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Designed India's first Petaflop supercomputer system.
Expert in large strategic account management.
Successful in selling complex storage solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a High Performance Computing expert with extensive experience in strategic account management and solution design.

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Skills

Core Skills

HpcSolution DesignSales

Other Skills

StorageEnd to end solution designCustomer engagementCompetitive analysisData center solutionsSuccessful in breaking into new accountsPre-salesKey Account ManagementSolution SellingSolution ArchitectureNew Business DevelopmentConsultancyAccount ManagementChannel PartnersData Center

About

Experience

33 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Nvidia

3 roles

Head - Channel Alliance, South Asia

Promoted

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Business Manager - HPC & AI Supercomputing South Asia

Jan 2017 – Jun 2025 · 8 yrs 5 mos

Sr Solution Architect - Asia South

Jul 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Sr Solution Architect for South Asia region, responsible for HPC business and business enablement.

Cray inc.

Presales Manager - Asia Pacific.

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

Presales Manager responsible for Asia Pacific region, responsibilities include Designing HPC, Storage, end to end solution, and working with customers across APAC region.
Main responsibilities:
Designing & presenting complete end to end solution for High Performance computing, and storage solutions.
Designed and implemented complete end to end solution for India’s first petaFlop system includes High performance compute, storage and data centre solutions.
Strategy planning for large account and opportunity, customer engagement during RFP / tender process to influence the technical specifications.
Successful in selling Cray’s first Cluster system for life science customer in India.
Create differentiated solution with respect to customer’s applications requirement.
Working with customers across different verticals segment, Government, (Education and research) manufacturing (Enterprise) and life science.
Driving market / opportunities based on Technology / product roadmap.
Organizing Technical seminars / work shops and trainings.
Strategy on Competitive analysis, meet comp, etc.
Accomplishments:
Successful in Designing and selling India’s first PetaFlop supercomputer system.
Partner engagement in building data center solution for the first Petaflop system.
Successful in selling Cray’s first Cluster system in India for life science customer.

HPCStorageEnd to end solution designCustomer engagementCompetitive analysisSolution Design

Sgi

Presales Manager - India

Jun 2000 – Jul 2013 · 13 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

Performance oriented 13 years of experience in Designing & selling solutions, Technical consultancy business, Business development, Large strategic account management, & Partners & Vendors management.
Extensive vertical industry knowledge in selling solutions & products to Education & research, (Govt), Manufacturing, Defense, Internet / Broadband / Broadcast, Cloud & Data centers customers.
Joined SGI as Technical Marketing Manager handling South India, shortly promoted as Presales Manager for India, handling nation wide customers.

Bpl telecom

Manager - Systems & Network design - ISP services

Mar 1999 – Jun 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

BPL Innovision Pvt. ltd, was a part of BPL Telecom Ltd , which was into mobile service provider, has launched it’s ISP services across the country.
Worked with BPL Innovation Pvt Ltd, as Manager – Systems & network design - ISP services with primary role as solution architect for ISP network & application services, and Presales support for ISP related business.

Isi bangalore

Consultant

Jan 1996 – Mar 1999 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

Worked with ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) as consultant, with primary role of, systems & network administration (based on DEC OSF/1) for ISI campus network & other locations.

Digital equipment corporation

Customer support Engineer

Aug 1992 – Jan 1996 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Worked with Digital Equipment India Ltd (DEIL) (Indian subsidy of DEC Inc) as customer support engineer, handling large accounts like Hindustan Lever Ltd, MRPL (Mangalore refinery & petroleum Ltd) etc with respect to systems (DEC Alpha OSF & DEIL Ultrix platform) & network related requirement.