Anand Vaidya

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India18 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17 years of experience in sales and business development.
  • Proven track record of exceeding sales targets.
  • Global perspective with experience in multiple countries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Fintech and RegTech with extensive experience in enterprise sales and business development.

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About

Short Summary: Experienced Enterprise Business Head (Head of Sales) with cross functional experience in P&L Management, Sales, GTM, Inside Sales with focus on "Zero To One". Skilled in Sales, Business Development, Finance. IIT-IIM background + CFA Charter. Full Marathoner. I am a growth-oriented Enterprise Business Head at DevRev, With over 17 years of experience in sales, business development, and P&L management, I have successfully launched and grown multiple business lines, regions, and accounts from scratch, with a focus on the BFSI sector. As the head of the enterprise sales team, I have lead and mentored a cross-functional group of account executives, solution principals, marketers, and inside sales professionals. I am responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy, building strong customer relationships, and delivering value-added solutions that address the challenges and opportunities of the digital economy. I have a proven track record of achieving and exceeding sales targets, winning awards, and driving customer retention and satisfaction. I have also worked and lived in various countries, such as US, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and the UK, giving me a global perspective and cultural awareness. I hold a CFA charter and a PGDM from IIM Lucknow, with a dual specialization in finance and operations. I am also a full marathoner, who enjoys running and taking on new challenges.

Experience

18 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Devrev

Enterprise Business Head

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Experience conversational AI at work.

Highradius

2 roles

Enterprise Business Head, AVP

Dec 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Team Achievements/Awards:
  • 3Q24: 102% of ARR
  • FY23: 4 team members qualified for the "FY 23 Presidents' Club" award
  • 1H23: Winner of Half Yearly Star Team Award
  • 1Q23: Achievement for team members: All 11 Leaders (who reported directly to me) achieved 100% plus.
  • 3Q22: Achievement for team members: 150% and 125% respectively, Both Quarterly Award Winners
  • Individual Achievements/Awards:
  • FY23 Achievement for me: 98%
  • FY22 Achievement for me: 101%, "Manager of the Year" Award
  • 3Q22 Achievement for me: 150%, "Manager of the Quarter" Award
  • 1H 2022: 110% Achievement, "HighFlyer of the Quarter" Award
  • Heading Account Executives, Solution Principals, Marketers and Inside Sales teams

Business Head for R2R Product, AVP

Oct 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Challenging Assignment of New Product x New Region: Launched a New Product (R2R) in a New Region (APAC).
  • Heading Account Executives, Solution Principals, Marketers and Inside Sales teams.
  • FY22 Achievement: 101%

Advance.ai

2 roles

National Business Head: India, SriLanka

Promoted

Mar 2021Oct 2021 · 7 mos

  • "Out of Cycle" Promotion to National Business Head (from Western India Business Head) within 10 months of joining.
  • 2Q 2021: 116% Logo Achievement for the team in COVID Wave 2
  • 3Q 2021: 191% ACV Achievement for the team
  • India Business was ranked #10 in terms of sales amongst all countries where Advance AI was operating when I took up the National mandate. Within 6 months, I turned around and grew the business and the rank was #2.
  • ## Key Achievements:
  • a. Business Scale up via Blue Ocean Strategy: Built $XYZ K ARR business from scratch in Year 1 of business by signing up marquee logos.
  • ## Key Responsibilities:
  • a. Commercial Leadership: Built, mentored and motivated the Sales team across Regional Sales, Inside Sales and Channel Sales.
  • b. GTM Strategy: Worked with the Chief Commercial Officer to develop & execute GTM Strategy across countries for top 10 Banks and NBFCs.

Regional Business Head: West India

Jun 2020Mar 2021 · 9 mos

Signzy

Director of Enterprise Account Management

Jan 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • ## Year 1: 2500% yoy (25x) ARR growth for a marquee account. Converted the account into $1M+ ARR account
  • ## First Hire in the Account Management Team
  • Signzy is a RegTech Company with a specific focus on digital trust. Signzy helps institutions make their digital regulatory processes simple, secure and compliant. This is achieved by providing human-like fraud detection using Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.
  • ## Key Achievements:
  • 1. Account Expansion : Built an $XX MM ARR account (from scratch) in 12 months through ROI - based consultative selling.
  • 2. Revenue Generation : Lead generation, nurturing and closure of multiple complex deals with leading banks.
  • ## Key Responsibilities:
  • 1. Strategic Account Management of large banks in India.

Heckyl technologies

2 roles

Vice President, Sales & Strategy + Country Head, Singapore

Promoted

Apr 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Year 1: 236% Achievement
  • Year 2: 100% Achievement
  • Heckyl is a B2B fintech startup with product focus on analysis of structured + unstructured data using NLP/AI.
  • ## Key Achievements:
  • International P&L Ownership: Tasked to set up the operations in Singapore from scratch as the only member of the company. of Heckyl. As a P&L owner, broke even (on cash terms) in Year 1 by signing paid engagements with marquee clients.
  • Revenue Generation: Hunted New Business through consultative approach (Majority multi-year deals). Signed up 10+ marquee logos (with multiple cases of cross-sell and up-sell) as the Company Revenue scaled xx times in 4 years.
  • New Business Unit (BU) Development: Conceptualized and created a new product through a survey of 40+ banks: EWS for corporate lending for banks. Subsequently, scaled the Business Unit to XX% of company Sales by signing first 5 banking customers.
  • ## Key Responsibilities:
  • Hunting and Farming through consultative approach: As an early-stage employee, worked directly with the Co-Founder as the only salesperson (for significant period) in India. Exposure to end-to-end sales cycle, targeting Brokerages and Banks.
  • GTM Strategy: Develop and execute Short and mid-term sales strategy (Pricing, Marketing, Content, Product, Region).
  • Team Management: Built, mentored and led the India sales team from scratch.
  • Skills Developed:
  • 1. Maximum output despite minimal resources:
  • 2. Marketing and Content Development
  • 3. Productization of Business problems

AVP, Business Development

Jan 2015Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Primary Responsibility:
  • 1. New Business development through Problem -Solving + Consultative approach
  • 2. Connecting Heckyl product suite with market by creating compelling use-cases.
  • Secondary Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
  • 1. Product development + management
  • 2. Pre-Sales
  • 3. Marketing and Content Development

Nomura

Equities Associate

Jun 2008Jan 2015 · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • Key achievements:
  • #1. Revenue Generation:
  • Quarterly top performer award (from 80 members)
  • Received votes in the annual Thomson Reuters Extel survey 2013-14 (150 points)
  • Received votes from marquee clients like JP Morgan AMC
  • June'08 to Sep'08: Lehman Brothers, Sep'08 to Jan'15: Nomura

Deutsche bank

Project Intern

Sep 2007Dec 2007 · 3 mos · Frankfurt

Icici prudential life insurance company limited

Summer Trainee

Apr 2007Jun 2007 · 2 mos

  • Development of a productivity model that helps to gauge the productivity of any branch at pan-India
  • Achievements: The best summer project award.

Oracle india pvt. ltd.

Associate Apps. Engineer

Aug 2005Apr 2006 · 8 mos

  • ERP Product Development in SCM Module

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

PGDM

Jan 2006Jan 2008

CFA Institute

Investment Analysis

Jan 2009Jan 2011

EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht

M.S.

Jan 2007Jan 2007

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B. Tech. — Aerospace Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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