Prabhakar Gowda

Business Development Executive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in driving digital business transformation.
  • Expertise in managing high-performance sales teams.
  • Strong relationships with C-level executives across industries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales leader with extensive experience in cloud solutions and digital transformation.

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Skills

Other Skills

DataStax LunaSales ManagementC-Level RelationshipsSalesConsultative Selling StyleDeal ClosureQualifying ProspectsAccount ManagementTeam ManagementLead GenerationBest Sales PracticesBusiness DevelopmentSaaSCloud ComputingKey Account Management

About

Areas of excellence include: 1. People Management 2. Digital Business Transformation 3. Drive high performance culture • Experienced in working top niche products/solutions like Snowflake, Salesforce.com, Google Cloud solutions, Tableau, Qliktech- BI, & HRMS. • Define and implement impactful strategic sales opportunities. Define the strategic road maps and options for profitable growth. • Built business, team, decent customer base although being the first employee onboarded in the region for various product lines like Salesforce.com, Google Cloud.

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Snowflake

Sales Leader - Commercial Expansion Business, India

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · India · On-site

Salesforce

4 roles

Regional Sales Leader - South India

Promoted

Feb 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Regional Sales Manager - Mid Market

Feb 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

Account Director - General Business

Feb 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Account Director - Mid Market Business

Feb 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Google cloud services

2 roles

Regional Business Manager - SMB

Promoted

Jan 2016Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

Business Manager - Gsuite for Business

Mar 2012Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Drive Google Enterprise Business across South India on Google Cloud Platform (PAAS and IAAS, Cloud storage etc), Gsuite ( SAAS) and Chrome for work) and Maps for Work
  • Strategic Consulting, including business plan & Business strategy development.
  • Hunting and Farming of key accounts across verticals in the Mid Market / Greater Business Space in South India
  • Consulting Enterprises on their Digital transformation journey
  • Interactions with Key Decision makers preferably CEO / Directors / CIO / CTO and understanding business pain points and mapping the appropriate solutions
  • Quantifiable value preposition ( TCO v/s ROI) on rendering a POC with the best feasible solution
  • Proposals and negotiations
  • Effective closure of Sales and post sales support

Noventiq

Solution Sales Specialist - CRM & BI

Oct 2011Mar 2012 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Epeople bespoke consulting pvt ltd

Sr. Business Development Consultant - Salesforce.com

Sep 2010Oct 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

  • 1. Exploring new business opportunities, identifying markets & contributing strategically for Salesforce.com CRM
  • 2. Showcasing the Value preposition to our prospects in opting for Salesforce.com and to kill competition aggressively
  • 3. Responsible for understanding Prospects requirement and showcasing POC on addressing their Pain areas and build Case Studies of our customers
  • 4. Involved in effective meetings with C-level connects across enterprises considering their respective KRA/KRI into consideration
  • 5. Key account Management that helped them to increase technology adoption rate, Cross/Up sell and that paved way for successful renewals.

Blue chip computer consultant pvt ltd

Business Development - IT Products and Services

Apr 2008Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Identifying opportunities and developing new customers through networking, referrals and
  • cold callings.
  • Performing Lead Generation activities for global ERP’s like Infor –Syteline, SAP, QAD- Mfg/Pro,
  • QlikView Business Discovery solutions for US and Canadian geography.
  • Drive interest among the prospects for AMC support through Offshore Development Center,
  • ODO Hybrid Offshore IT support for Customization and migration activities.
  • Data mining from Jigsaw, Zoom info and Manta, further fine tuning the data on basis of the
  • industry vertical, decision makers, Time zones etc.
  • Constant interaction with the prospects by setting up of WebEx Demos, Conference calls in
  • accordance to follow up requested by IT Heads and CTO’s.
  • Understanding prospect requirement by thorough discovery meeting, mapping of technical
  • resource and showcasing POC accordingly
  • Excellent business sense in identification of opportunities, ability to propose convincing solutions and win deals effectively.

Education

Vemana Institute of Management

BBM — Marketing & IS

Jan 2005Jan 2008

St Aloysius College, Coxtown

PCMB

Jan 2003Jan 2005

New Baldwin

Management Information Systems and Services

Jan 1995Jan 2003

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