Prasanna Amanan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Built high-performing teams across multiple cities.
  • Led digital transformation initiatives for global clients.
  • Advocate for systems thinking in organizational leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and digital transformation leader with extensive experience in enterprise software.

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Skills

Core Skills

Service DeliveryEnterprise SoftwareTeam BuildingBusiness Development

Other Skills

Management ProfessionalExecutive SearchOperations ManagementManagement ConsultingDigital TransformationDigital StrategyStrategic PlanningBusiness Process ImprovementAgile MethodologiesProduct DevelopmentSoftware ImplementationChange ManagementRequirements AnalysisBusiness AnalysisScrum

About

Prasanna Amanan is a global technology and business leader working at the intersection of people, modern ERP, data, and AI-enabled business transformation. With nearly two decades of international experience across software engineering, product delivery, and leadership, he has built high-performing engineering teams and delivered complex software products for enterprises and mid-sized businesses across global markets. What distinguishes Prasanna is his ability to translate technology into strategic business advantage. His work spans software product development, ERP-led business transformation, business model innovation, and strategic decision-making for global clients. At Limendo, he is building a purpose-driven organization that empowers SMEs worldwide through practical digital solutions. Limendo’s flagship offering, mERP (Modern ERP), helps manufacturing, retail, and HR-driven organizations modernize operations, improve decision-making, and scale sustainably. At Smart Host (kompetenz), he is leading India operations and building a world-class team to establish a GCC focused on innovation, product development, and engineering excellence, combining with a culture-driven environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and high performance. A strong advocate of systems thinking in modern work, Prasanna integrates systems thinking principles into software design, engineering team development, and organizational leadership. Beyond his professional role, he actively contributes to the broader systems community and has helped build a community of practice around systems thinking, including leading the Systems Innovation (SI) Bangalore Hub, where practitioners, leaders, and learners collaborate to apply systems thinking to real-world challenges. As a speaker, Prasanna brings a unique perspective that combines technology, systems thinking, and leadership — offering practical insights on building resilient organizations and using modern digital systems to create long-term competitive advantage. Services: ERP Practice: ERP, providers of Open Source ERP and customizations Data Practice: Analytics Service, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Cleaning, Data Driven Decisions, Business Intelligence.(DWH, ETL, Data Lakes and cloud based services) Data Science: EDA, AI enabled applications, Machine Learning applications and statistical modeling Products: Limendo Menu, Limendo Shop, Yodalytics, ISI Chat, Limendo EECHO, Limendo BI/Analytics & mERP For enquiries: mail@Limendo.com For careers: careers@Limendo.com Offices - Bolzano | Bengaluru | Ahmedabad

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Smart host

Managing Director Smart Host India Partner

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Building Smart Host India and leading innovation through talent, modern competence and organisation design.
  • Smart Host redefines and reimagines the below
  • while enabling competitiveness to SME hospitality businesses in Europe:
  • 1. Holistic, data-driven guest lifecycle management
  • 2. Automated marketing and revenue optimization for hotels
  • 3. Personalized guest experiences at scale
  • 4. Unified end-to-end hotel CRM and communication platform
  • 5. Empowering small and mid-sized hotels with enterprise-level capabilities

Limendo

Managing Director

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Key Achievements
  • Scaled Limendo India from the ground up, building a high-performing team of 60+ professionals across 4 cities, operating from 2 offices.
  • Established & led multiple core functions from scratch, including Design, DevOps, Application Practice, and Data Practice.
  • Oversaw day-to-day operations & held full P&L responsibility for the India business unit.
  • Spearheaded business development efforts, successfully acquiring & onboarding strategic clients for Limendo India.
  • Identified & built relationships with key vendors & partners, strengthening operational resilience & delivery capability.
  • Played a critical role in global project execution and contributed to in-house innovation initiatives.
Service DeliveryEnterprise SoftwareManagement ProfessionalExecutive Search

Lardi & partner consulting

Senior Advisor

Nov 2019Jul 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · United Kingdom

  • Led clients through transformational change by driving the design & execution of digital strategies
  • Collaborated with client senior management & C-suite leaders to understand business challenges
  • Contributed to research/analysis of competitive market landscape to design the desired future state
  • Drive business development to help grow our digital business
  • Contributed to the direction of our Digital Consulting practice through exceptional client service delivery and support of business development efforts
  • Contributed to RFP response and relevant collaterals on-time.
  • Delivered across strategy, execution and operational support on major programs of business and digital transformation
  • Conceptualized & developed tool using interactive forms (personalized) to capture stakeholder input and produced real-time scoring for dynamic classification.

Soccarena holdings limited, uk

Director of Transformation

Jun 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Durham, United Kingdom

  • Led creation of business & corporate strategy plans working closely with the Executive Team
  • Led execution of short/long-term business plans & supported relevant departments/programmes
  • Developed $x0m expansion plan, evaluated $xm opportunities & formalised decision making
  • Analyzed maturity/readiness for change, conducted stakeholder workshops to receive buy-in/trust
  • Contributed over $x00K to revenue increase: defined & developed operational efficiency plan
  • Lead innovation opportunities, promoted culture & established core group, own $x0m budget
  • Delivered phase 1 & 2 developments on time, go to person for critical challenges, problem solver
  • Oversee management of multiple complex $x00k projects involving cross functional teams
  • Evangelised best practices, resolved bottlenecks, built partnerships, cooperation across teams
  • Rolled out digital initiatives in alignment with business & supported/built digital marketing plan
  • Conducted business risk/impact studies, defined key metrics & developed plan for achieving KPIs
  • Coached managers, team leaders & critical staff to achieve transformation, managed x0 team size
  • Report directly to the chief of business

Finastra

2 roles

Expert Technical Project/Program/Delivery Manager

Promoted

Mar 2012Sep 2018 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Programme Management of Product Implementation
  • Planning, organizing and implementing, multiple complex product(s) and development projects across the globe
  • Product Delivery Management and Customer Engagement Management (global) through entire sales lifecycle
  • Successfully delivered over 70 global projects of all sizes through 7-8 years, worth $x00m
  • Portfolio / Product Operations
  • Contributed to profit growth by leading efficiency programs across development, support & maintenance functions using lean practice, directing & aligning operations to strategy, independently contributed to $x00m revenue
  • Improved business transparency, adopted real-time reporting, achieved organizational KPI consistently ~90%
  • Improved delivery predictability, through proactive risk management & re-engineering processes leading to increased trust adding to sales growth 3-4% YoY
  • Product Delivery and Programme Management
  • Reviewed risk, developed & managed product / global programme / project plans & coordinated priorities across functions
  • Scheduled, managed, governed & owned delivery of product(s) / programme with end-to-end accountability - working with customers, sales, marketing, engineering, quality & product teams
  • Prevented delivery delay, achieved on-time delivery, 95% consistently
  • Protected revenue of $x0m per year & supported RPF / business deals adding $xm per year
  • Customer Management
  • Acted in strategic advisory role for both customer & implementation partners/professional services - guided, coached, shared best practices & enabled them to maximize outcomes, minimize risk, rescued over 10 projects.
  • Influenced, internal & external stakeholders, built partnerships & improved cooperation, collaboration
  • Directed x00 team size, dotted/line manager of engg. mangers, IT leads to deliver specific strategic program objectives.
  • Directly managed relationship with over 200 customers/50 big names in finance industry

Associate Project/Program Manager

Jan 2011Mar 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Cross functional role: managerial internship
  • Setup engineering support operations from scratch for two risk products bringing $x0m revenues
  • Managed development requests by coordinating both design and solution
  • Delivered product training to customers, software implementation, saved $xm to professional services
  • Implemented proactive approach to solving customer pain points and introduced series of processes to enhance efficiency, react faster with greater accuracy. Created better operations health.

Ignis software technology pvt. ltd.

On-site Delivery Lead/Senior Software Engineer,

Jun 2006Dec 2010 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Led from onsite, USA, delivered on-site media domain engineering projects through ODC, hands on engg. management
  • Managed team of 5 senior engineers, acted as agile lead, managed module integration and project delivery. $00K projects, x0 team size

Education

Durham University Business School

Master of Business Administration

Jan 2018Jan 2019

Mannheim Business School

International Study Module — Global Business

Jan 2019Jan 2019

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

EPFRIM

Jan 2011Jan 2012

Carnegie Mellon University

Professional Certificate — Software Architecture & Software Product Lines

Jan 2012Jan 2012

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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