Abhinav Khanna

Business Development Executive

Haryana, India10 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Achieved 302% of quota in Q3 2023.
  • Led a team to expand strategic accounts in APAC.
  • Recognized as Corporate Sales Manager of the Year, FY26.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Sales Leader with extensive experience in account management and team development.

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Skills

Core Skills

SalesBusiness Development

Other Skills

Account ManagementTeam ManagementSales ProcessForecastingCustomer Relationship ManagementRecruitingCRMSolution SellingLead GenerationDirect SalesTechnical RecruitingTalent AcquisitionScreeningTemporary PlacementVendor Management

About

Abhinav is an experienced Sales professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Cloud Industry. He is skilled in Team Management, Sales, SaaS/IaaS/PaaS, and Account & Business Development. He has done Masters in Business Administration(IT and Marketing) and Bachelors(B.Tech) in Information Technology.

Experience

10 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Grafana labs

Senior Enterprise Account Executive(Acquisition)

Mar 2026Present · 3 mos · India · Remote

Redis

2 roles

Manager, Corporate Sales (APAC)

Promoted

Feb 2025Feb 2026 · 1 yr

  • Penetrating into deep strategic accounts based out of APAC region
  • Looking after hiring headcounts - expanded a team of Strategic Corporate Sales Reps from
  • three to six over 3 quarters
  • Carrying a sales quota of $2.5M ARR to be driven from net new customer acquisition,
  • expansion from existing customers
  • Worked on building a complete GTM motion for the segment which involved working
  • closely with the ecosystem - Solution Engineers, Marketing, Sales Development, TAM and
  • Customer Success Org
  • Coaching and enabling team on account tiering, pipeline generation, forecasting, champion
  • building, following Sales Process to deliver results
  • Strategising business with CSPs via. internal partner teams
  • Executive connects during New Business Meetings to build a MAP with the customers
  • 149% of quota attainment for FY26
  • Achievements:
  • Corporate Sales Manager of the Year, FY26
  • President Club - FY26
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness DevelopmentTeam ManagementSales ProcessForecasting

Senior Account Executive(Corporate)

May 2024Jan 2025 · 8 mos

  • Started off by managing a patch of Greenfield accounts
  • Responsible for re-building the territory by filtering ICPs, building a pipeline generation
  • approach, driving customer discovery meetings, leveraging ecosystem(Manager, Solution
  • Architects, Partner and Marketing) over the course of deal progression
  • Acquired 8 new logos with an average deal size of $45K(land)
  • Leveraging CSPs to help penetrate into strategic accounts
  • Forecasting revenue numbers and delivering on the same
  • Hit 95% of quota for FY25
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness DevelopmentForecasting

Mongodb

3 roles

Account Executive, Mid-Market (Acquisition)

May 2023May 2024 · 1 yr

  • Working on strategic accounts and helping them build a robust database stack.
  • Tiering book of business - database solution, migrate/replace sales motions, internal and
  • external smoke.
  • Mentored 2 new hired reps on the team with territory management, product & process understanding, leveraging ecosystem(SAs,SDRs, CSPs), call shadowing.
  • Pipeline generation via. a defined cadence into the accounts - cold calls, LinkedIn connects
  • and messaging, dedicated workshops for the prospects, personalized emails, connect with
  • CSP(AWS, Azure and GCP), leveraging marketing campaigns.
  • Driving end-to-end sales into an accounts: org maps, relevant personas, prospecting and
  • outreach, setting up discovery meetings, leveraging cross-functional teams(solutions architect, professional services, product team), proposal/negotiations, eventually onboarding the customer on to MongoDB Enterprise products.
  • Helping prospects drive POCs for validating success criterias on MongoDB Atlas.
  • Accurately forecasting the pipeline and revenue for each quarter.
  • Over-achieving the assigned Quota in terms of new customer acquisition and revenue
  • generation.
  • Conducted multiple Enablement sessions around maintaining a healthy book of business, new account identification(internal and external smoke), prospecting strategies and cadence, account planning/mapping.
  • Landed one of the biggest ElasticSearch replace deal($200K ARR), leveraged SAs, Professional Services and multiple stakeholders from the product team.
  • Achievements:
  • 101% of FY25 Quota in 4 Months only
  • Q2 2024(May Only): 162% of Quota
  • Q1 2024: 238% of Quota
  • Q4 2023: 140% of Quota
  • Q3 2023: 302% of Quota
  • Q2 2023: 380% of Quota
SalesAccount ManagementCustomer Relationship Management

Senior Corporate Account Executive

May 2022Apr 2023 · 11 mos

  • Prospecting into accounts and pipeline generation via. cold calling, e-mails, LinkedIn outreaches, invites to product workshops and sessions with MongoDB’s leaders, roundtables.
  • Account penetration, organization mapping, customized outreaches, identifying challenges with their current solution/infrastructure, assisting with product demonstrations, NBM(new business meetings), POC/POV, proposals and negotiations, onboarding.
  • Mentored 5 reps on different teams with Account planning, book-tiering, leveraging ecosystem, product and process understanding with 100% hitting their Quotas in the FY.
  • Identifying new accounts for the book via. internal smoke(eg. free-tier users), job posts, funding.
  • Account prioritization via. factors like current database solution, mission criticality, funding etc.
  • Deal progression, prioritizing deals, forecast, renewals.
  • Working in collaboration with the pre-sales team(Solutions Architect), product team, deal-
  • desk and consulting engineers(professional services) to assist customers with the required resources.
  • Conducted enablement sessions for the wider team around Account management, deal progression, how to conduct a good NBM, stakeholder mapping, competitive analysis(DocumentDB, DynamoDB).
  • Landed 6 completely greenfield accounts with 2 above $100K+, closed one of the biggest Licensing deals(2 year commit).
  • Achievements:
  • Part of Global Excellence Club FY 23 - top rep for India Customer Acquisition
  • Q1 2023: 254% of Quota
  • Q4 2022: 240% of Quota
  • Q3 2022: 200% of Quota
  • Q2 2022: 200% of Quota
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness Development

Corporate Account Executive

May 2021Apr 2022 · 11 mos

  • Prospecting into accounts and pipeline generation via. cold calling, e-mails, LinkedIn outreaches, invites to product workshops and sessions with MongoDB’s leaders, roundtables.
  • Account penetration, organization mapping, customized outreaches, identifying challenges with their current solution/infrastructure, assisting with product demonstrations, NBM(new business meetings), POC/POV, proposals and negotiations, onboarding.
  • Identifying new accounts for the book via. internal smoke(eg. free-tier users), job posts, funding.
  • Mentored 2 new hired reps on the team with territory management, product demos and leveraging CSPs.
  • Account prioritization via. factors like current database solution, mission criticality, funding etc.
  • Deal progression, prioritizing deals, forecast, renewals.
  • Conducted enablement sessions around Book-tiering, new accounts identification.
  • Working in collaboration with the pre-sales team(Solutions Architect), product team, deal-
  • desk and consulting engineers(professional services) to assist customers with the required resources.
  • Landed one of the biggest customers for MongoDB in India and $80K ARR, eventually grew to $1.2M ARR.
  • Achievements:
  • Q1 2022: 256% of Quota
  • Q4 2021: 777% of Quota
  • Q3 2021: 188% of Quota
  • Q2 2021: 175% of Quota
  • Highest Pipeline generated in Q4’ 21 in APAC
  • Ranked 2nd globally in Q1’ 22(new logos acquired) and 1st in APAC
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness Development

Qwinix

Team Lead - Sales(Google Cloud Platform)

Sep 2020May 2021 · 8 mos · Remote

  • Responsible for hiring and enabling Sales team - 4 Sales Reps within 2 months of joining.
  • Managing end-to-end sales for Google Cloud Platform solutions.
  • Prioritising accounts on basis of industries, revenue and solutions.
  • Prospecting into accounts by Cold Calling, Emailing and LinkedIn outreach.
  • Reaching out to participants from Webinar or Cloud Study Jam conducted.
  • Building up a team for Inside Sales by reaching out to candidates, interviewing them.
  • Managing a team of Business/Sales and Account Development Representatives(responsible for pipeline generation and setting up qualified meetings) - conducting Team Huddles, Delegating Tasks/Targets, 1:1s and Coaching sessions.
  • Achieving Sales Quota assigned by meeting customers, generating pipeline, engaging technical team, running Demo/Presentation/POC with the customers and finally closing the deal.
  • Helping customer move to Google Cloud from On-Prem or other cloud providers - setting up projects, billing ID.
  • Responsible for Tech Deep-Dive sessions with customer and Cloud Engineers.
  • Preparing SOWs.
  • Focused on prospecting for GCP solutions, Professional Services and Managed Services.
  • Managing all the customer and deal information, tracking opportunity stage movement in Hubspot.
  • Q1 2021: 170% of Quota
  • Q4 2020: 115% of Quota
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness Development

Google(on roll - sellbytel group)

3 roles

Team Lead - Sales, Account & Business Development (Google Cloud)

Jan 2018Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Helping organisations move from existing on-premise/cloud setup to GCP.
  • Pipeline and Revenue Generation by reaching out to leads qualified via. BANT criteria.
  • Negotiations with the customers.
  • Maintaining a healthy ATO and conversion rate.
  • Help customers set up a trial account to get hands-on experience on the product.
  • Having business reviews(performance reviews) on weekly basis to understand the progression in terms of quota attainment and targets for the particular quarter.
  • Enabling a team of SDRs + Account Development Representatives/Business Development Representatives.
  • Leading the team-huddles to understand the growth in the team, share best practices, discussions on performance of an individual & improvement areas.
  • Accounts and Opportunities Prioritisation.
  • Team Build-Up.
  • Collaborating with the team to make Prospecting/Hunt for Opportunities better & easier.
  • Maintaining the right enthusiasm in the team, so that we move in a right direction to deliver a great customer experience & eventually hit numbers.
  • Working in Sync with Sales Managers & Program Managers to help and get better pipeline, number of opportunities and successful functioning of a project.
  • Coaching and Mentoring the team on regular basis to help them grow in performance.
  • Running R&R programs for the team.
  • Conducting the Capacity Analysis to have required head count for the project.
  • Hiring and developing the best SDRs/BDRs/ADRs.
  • Responsible for Performance Management, Stakeholders Management and Succession Planning.
  • Setting Team mission and goals.
  • Hired 8 new members as a part of the team, got 5 people promoted(from existing team) to different roles.
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness Development

Sales Development Representative (Google Cloud Platform)

Promoted

Jul 2017Jan 2018 · 6 mos

  • First SDR for GCP in India and mentored 5 folks on the Google Workspace tea(previously G-Suite) to transition into the Google Cloud.
  • Use knowledge of Cloud Computing to help customers as they begin their transition to a cloud environment.
  • Keep up to date with the latest breakthroughs in Cloud Computing and work cross-functionality with different teams.
  • Assessing customers needs and translating those to Google Cloud Platform products and services.
  • Identifying and changing businesses processes for maximum effectiveness.
  • Collaborating with sales and sales engineers.
  • Helping customers who are using the product engage with the Google Cloud Platform team.
  • Responsible for end to end sales from lead generation to qualifying into opportunities and finally deal closure.
  • Working collaboratively with other team members to identify cloud solutions.
  • Sound knowledge of Google Cloud Platform(GCP) primarily focusing on Google Compute Engine(GCE), Google App Engine(GAE), Google Container Engine(GKE), Big Data, Google Cloud Storage(GCS),Big Query and Machine Learning APIs.
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness Development

Demand Management Associate - GSuite

May 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Support and contribute to sales and marketing campaigns.
  • Handle inbound inquiries from online and phone channels to assess and qualify their needs and making outbound calls to convert lead into opportunity.
  • Handle inbound inquiries from online and phone channels to assess and qualify their
  • needs and make outbound calls to convert leads into opportunity and finally deal closure (from helping them go through a trial and then helping them with setting up the billing account).
  • Establish first contact with prospects via phone and/or email and introduce these prospects to the products and services that are within Google's Enterprise line of products including
  • Google Apps for Business and Google Vault.
  • Successfully identify priority accounts and connects them with appropriate campaign programs in high-level territory plan.
  • Successfully solving customer issues and challenges.
  • Developing and maintaining detailed knowledge of Google’s Enterprise line of products including Google Apps, Google Docs, and Google Vault.
  • Sound knowledge of Salesforce.
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness Development

Cloudeeva inc.(now cloudarity inc.)

Senior Business Development Executive

Aug 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Fremont, California, United States

  • Full-cycle Sales for Permanent, Contract and Temporary roles for our consultants in junior to senior positions.
  • Finding new positions for Consultants on bench through cold-calling, social-networking and portals (Dice, Monster, Indeed and Career-Builder).
  • Negotiating with the vendors and clients regarding the salary/hourly rates of the consultants.
  • Managing the existing Clientele (key accounts and vendors) via. Regular follow-ups and checking about upcoming requirements.
  • Client Acquisition for different IT Projects, bringing them Onboard, and helping them with the required manpower( Android/iOS Developers, DBA, SQL/BI Developers, Business Analysts).
  • Extensive experience in team management.
  • Sound knowledge of US-Staffing process.
  • Maintaining good vendor/customer relationships.
  • Worked with clients like Google, Apple, Wells-Fargo to fulfil their IT needs.
  • Awarded as the Top Rep for FY 2015-2016 for driving maximum closures and revenue among a team of 10 people.
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness Development

Pc solutions

Business Development Executive

Jan 2014Jun 2014 · 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Maintaining close loop between customer, organization & OEM
  • Building and maintaining relationship with OEM’s account managers and channel management
  • Identifying and networking with prospective clients, generating business from new accounts & developing them to achieve consistent profitability
  • Initiating contact with potential customers for developing leads, sales & marketing of products & services.
  • Building and maintaining healthy business relations with major clientele, ensuring maximum customer satisfaction by achieving performance parameters delivery & quality norms.
  • Sales of Servers, Storage and Backup, Cloud Computing Solutions(Iaas, Paas and SaaS).
  • Managed Services
  • Network Solutions
  • Formulating and designing the sales and marketing policy and targets.
  • Customer relationship.
  • Relationships with vendors.
  • Negotiations with vendors & customers.
  • Sound knowledge of products & solutions from vendors such as Cisco, HP, IBM, Cloud(Azure), Storage and Back-up.
SalesAccount ManagementBusiness Development

Education

Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology, Delhi

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Information Technology and Marketing

P.D.M.C.E

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

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