Neil Barman

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Two decades of experience in SaaS and sales.
  • Founding member of Sales Enablement Society in India.
  • Led growth function across APAC for Kore.ai.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales and marketing expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales Management

Other Skills

Account ManagementAnalyticsBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCRMCloud ComputingCompetitive AnalysisContent MarketingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Direct SalesE-commerceEmail MarketingLead Generation

About

I have 2 decades of experience in Saas and direct-to-customer sales and marketing processes. With business leadership experience in managing sales, marketing and account management functions in IT Services or IT products environment. I have deep understanding of building sales and revenue generation functions in start-ups and scaling organisations across industries and regions. Apart from leading the Growth function across APAC for Kore.ai, I am one of the founding members of Sales Enablement society in India and Malaysia, Ambassador for Future Of Sales - APAC community, Advisory Board member to multiple start-ups in India, Malaysia and US and Mentor to the Entrepreneurship cell of BITS Pilani India.

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Kore.ai

General Manager & Business Head - APAC

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · APAC · Hybrid

  • Kore.ai is a global leader in the conversational AI-first platform and solutions, helping enterprises automate business interactions to deliver extraordinary experiences for their customers, employees, and contact center agents. More than 350 global 2000 companies trust Kore.ai’s experience optimization (XO) platform and technology to automate their business interactions for over 100 million users worldwide to achieve extraordinary outcomes. Kore.ai has been recognized as a leader and an innovator by top analysts and ensures the success of its customers through a growing team headquartered in Orlando with offices in India, the UK, Japan, South Korea, and Europe. Visit Kore.ai to learn more.
Sales Management

Knowledge capital

Saas Investor

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · India

Newchip accelerator

Startup Mentor

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Spielpod

Co-founder and Chief Gardener

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Global

Loconav inc.

Growth Advisor

Aug 2021Nov 2021 · 3 mos

  • Advising Loconav on Growth Strategy, Market Entry Strategy,Team Formulation & Organisation Structuring, Sales compensation and Incentive model.

Future of saas

Ambassador

Aug 2020Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

  • Future of SaaS was founded in early 2020 with a mission of creating a one-stop-shop of resources, content, and learning materials for those in the business of SaaS.With different structures, strategies, and priorities, we appreciate no two SaaS organizations look the same which is why our coverage is so broad - from product-led growth to revenue optimization, fundraising to teamwork, and analytics to onboarding.Our network of founders, senior execs, product pros, commercial leads, talent managers, and investors is constantly growing and expanding geographically.

Conquest bits pilani

Mentor

Feb 2020Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · India

  • Conquest, an initiative by the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, BITS Pilani, is India’s First Student-Run Startup Accelerator. We help the best founders build great businesses and raise money. Our program includes online mentoring to the 10 most exciting startups from across the country over 6 weeks, connecting them with field experts. Following this, the startups undergo a 10 day mentorship program in Bangalore. The program ends with the Grand Finale where these startups pitch before India’s biggest investment firms and media houses.

Yellow.ai

2 roles

Chief Growth Officer

Promoted

Dec 2019Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Spearheading the growth function for Yellow Messenger globally. Building sales and customer success team to diversify into newer territories and domains. Managing a highly effective network of channel patners, ranging from large SI's to mid-size re seller network across the region. Currently leading all growth function teams including sales, account management, inside sales and partner management.
Account ManagementBusiness AnalysisSales ManagementSoftware as a Service (SaaS)

SVP - Growth

Nov 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Spearheading the growth function for Yellow Messenger globally. Building sales and customer success team to diversify into newer territories and domains. Managing a highly effective network of channel patners, ranging from large SI's to mid-size re seller network across the region. Currently leading all growth function teams including sales, account management, inside sales and partner management.

Sales enablement society - malaysia chapter

Co-Founder

Oct 2018Present · 7 yrs 8 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • The Sales Enablement Society (SES) is a volunteer organization focused on elevating the role of Sales Enablement in organizations worldwide through engagement, communication, research, and development.
  • We are the first non-profit Sales Enablement community of Malaysia.
  • Founded in 2016 in the United States, with five founding members, the SES has grown to more than 2,500 members in 13 countries with chapters across the globe. Members represent all areas of the sales enablement community – practitioners, suppliers, industry experts, and academics.

Ironhorse asia sdn. bhd.

Business Director - Strategy & Innovation

Oct 2018Present · 7 yrs 8 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Together we bring 86 years of retail and financial industry experiences as our value proposition to your Organisation whether it is in-store POS requirement, Head Office merchandising needs, warehousing, supply chain management, web-store, Internet business, social media consultation, maximizing return on investment via customer analytics, harnessing on merchandising analytics, managing & forecasting inventory, workflow management, document control management, data replication, disaster recovery or bringing new architecture to legacy application for your business and operations.

Sales enablement society

Board member - India Chapter

Aug 2017Present · 8 yrs 10 mos · India

  • The Sales Enablement Society is a volunteer organization founded in January 2016, by a diverse group of like-minded sales and marketing professionals based in the Washington, D.C. area. The SES's overall mission identifies best practices for successful outcomes, clarifies the operations for the sales enablement business, and develops the criteria for sales enablement roles within successful organizations.

Mintm inc.

2 roles

EVP - Saas Practice

Nov 2016Nov 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Funded by Times Internet and Mumbai Angels, MintM is world's fastest growing In-store customer engagement company. It was recognized by TIE50 and NASSCOM among "50 Most Promising Global Start-ups of 2015". With presence in US, India, Brazil, Ireland, Singapore and Dubai, MintM helps brands and stores across the globe engage customers at the moment of truth .
  • MintM's crowd pulling product Magnet, a cutting-edge BOT for customer engagement is bridging the huge gap in the brick and mortar world, which was earlier possible only online.

Strategy and Consulting Partner

Feb 2014Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Funded by Times Internet, MintM is world's fastest growing In-store customer engagement company. It was recognized by TIE50 and NASSCOM among "50 Most Promising Global Start-ups of 2015". With presence in US, India, Brazil, Ireland and Dubai, MintM helps brands and stores across the globe engage customers at the moment of truth .
  • MintM's crowd pulling product Magnet, a cutting-edge BOT for customer engagement is bridging the huge gap in the brick and mortar world, which was earlier possible only online.

Simplify360

2 roles

Growth Consultant

Nov 2016Aug 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Simplify360 is a Social Business Intelligence platform which has a suite of software for marketing and customer service departments. Simplify360 allows businesses to carry out social media monitoring, social media engagement, social crm, social media analytics and social media marketing. It is a Saas based platform with a monthly subscription model.

Vice President - Sales & Alliances

Jun 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Simplify360 is the world’s first integrated enterprise solutions provider; our latest offerings are Social Marketing Suite for agencies, Social Contact Center for BPOs and Social Command Center for Enterprises. We enable businesses to perform Online Reputation Management, Customer Service, Community Management, Social Media Research & Brand Auditing; Online Sales Lead Generation, and Consumer Sentiment Analysis.
  • We have already provided solutions through their tool for industry leaders like Tech Mahindra, Wipro, Coffee Day, Star TV, Mahindra Retail and ITC Foods. Simplify360 is also the only company to work with the top media agency groups in the world like WPP and Publicis.
  • Simplify360 operates directly or through partners in the US, Malaysia, Korea, South Africa, Middle East and the Netherlands to name a few. The company’s products and services are sold in over 100 countries.

Qoruz

Mentor - Product & Growth

Jun 2016Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · India

  • Qoruz is an influencer discovery and outreach platform that enables brands to create and grow influential micro-communities to amplify their brand affinity. Too complex? Here’s the simple version – Qoruz provides a platform for brands and influencers to collaborate in many exciting and mutually beneficial ways.

Manthan

2 roles

Head of Alliances & Partner Programs- Customer Analytics

Oct 2014Jan 2015 · 3 mos

  • Manthan’s Customer Analytic product suite is an out-of-the box, pre-packaged offering that rapidly transforms the way retailers understand, predict and target one to one personalized offers to customers for revenue growth. A few key highlights of our solution includes:
  • Retail specific solution
  • SaaS Model
  • Pre-built data model
  • Over 150 packaged analytic reports
  • Out of the box predictive analytics
  • Integrated execution capabilities
  • My role involves creating a mutually viable business partnership around advanced analytics and leverage our expertise to create compelling ROIs for our customers.

Business Head - Retail Mobility, Analytics & BI Solutions

Feb 2014Jan 2015 · 11 mos

  • Manthan Systems' new product ARC Loyalty247 is a private-labeled mobile app platform for retailers. Manthan is a leading provider of Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics and Optimization solutions for global retailers. Manthan's private-label mobile app platform gives you the power of your own branded mobile app via customers' smartphones to enable:
  • A highly personalized channel for 1-1 communication
  • A repository for all promotions and offers delivery
  • Extension of your existing loyalty program for enhanced customer interaction
  • Effective communication of your brand to your entire customer base - both loyal and anonymous. ARC Loyalty247 will be a great fit to accelerate retail customer engagement initiatives.

Capillary technologies

Senior Manager - Business Development

Jul 2012Jan 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • One of the fastest growing technology product companies, Capillary is today the largest Retail CRM provider in the India. Established in 2008, Capillary provides next generation customer engagement solutions to retailers and consumer facing businesses with best in breed technology that bring the power of real-time engagement and delights the end-customers at every step, right from registration to rewards.
  • Capillary also focuses on high quality data capture, actionable analytics, instant cross-sell solutions, and instant gratification to generate a far higher ROI on customer engagement for retailers – all delivered through its patent pending cloud + mobile + social platform.

Regalix

Sales Manager- Digital Marketing

Apr 2011Jul 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Our belief is that Digital Marketing is not about racing the cars through a maze of billboards each screaming a colorful message, its not about a rock concert with a hundred thousand people watching, it really is intimate.
  • Consumers and business professionals, individuals, groups and now even governments are all expressing themselves online. Some are speaking louder than the others, some are more subtle. The billions of searches on search engines everyday are nothing but expressions and habits of millions of individuals. The reaction to an email in the inbox – a click, an open, a read, a forward to a friend, a delete or ignore is again an expression of the individual. A person coming to your website is saying something to you and is willing to ‘speak’ to you one-on-one if it is non-invasive. Millions of conversations are happening in blogs, pods, social media arenas and people are speaking about themselves; their desires, their pains, their dreams and what they want.
  • It is unprecedented times for companies to listen to the conversations carefully and create a distinctive relationship with the prospects, customers, partners …... We can help you do that.
  • These are some of the ways we help you listen, monitor or speak

Convergys

Senior Quality Lead

Oct 2009Apr 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • As a global leader in relationship management, Convergys is helping companies better understand and serve their customers. Using insights from data sources across your company, we can make sure your organization has an “outside-in” approach to knowing what your customers think, how your customers behave, and what your customers say. With these insights we will uncover and prioritize actions that drive positive cash flow for your business.

At&t global services

Business Analyst

Oct 2006Oct 2009 · 3 yrs

  • AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband and subscription television services. AT&T is the 7th largest company in the United States by total revenue, as well as the 4th largest non-oil company in the US. It is the 3rd largest company in Texas by total revenue and the largest non-oil company in Texas. It is also the largest company headquartered in Dallas.In 2010, Forbes listed AT&T as the 13th largest company in the world by market value and the 9th largest non-oil company in the world by market value. As of January 2011, it is the 20th largest mobile telecom operator in the world with over 96 million mobile customers

Education

Bangalore University

Business management — Business Studies

Jan 2001Jan 2006

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