Praveen Srinivas

Business Development Executive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led enterprise AI adoption initiatives at Progress Software.
  • Achieved 115% of revenue quota as Senior Account Manager.
  • Maintained over 90% customer retention rate.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales leader with a strong focus on enterprise AI solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Account ManagementBusiness StrategyCustomer Engagement

Other Skills

E-CommerceKey Account DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementStrategic Account DevelopmentStrategic Account GrowthClient RelationsMarketing AutomationCustomer Journey MappingIT ServicesMicrosoft OfficeManagementLeadershipData AnalysisBusiness Intelligence (BI)Machine Learning

About

At Progress, I lead the Inside Account Management function supporting the US & EMEA sales motion for Progress Agentic RAG. My focus is on building strong pipelines across SMB and enterprise customers, driving new business, and helping organisations explore practical use cases for enterprise AI. A big part of my role involves strengthening our Product Led Growth motion by improving the self-serve trial experience while also working closely with prospects during their evaluation journey. By combining guided engagement with a strong PLG approach, I help move opportunities through the sales lifecycle and contribute toward our revenue target. I work closely with sales engineering, product, marketing, and partner teams to turn product interest into real business opportunities. Along the way, I also mentor the inside sales team on building strong customer relationships, identifying meaningful AI use cases, and improving conversion rates. My approach is simple. Understand the customer’s problem well, connect it to the right AI solution, and create long-term value for both the customer and the business.

Experience

9 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Progress software

3 roles

Team Lead – Inside Account Management | Progress Agentic RAG

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos

  • Leading the inside account management function focused on driving enterprise adoption and revenue growth for Progress Agentic RAG, an AI-powered solution for enterprise knowledge retrieval and intelligent automation. Support the global sales motion for the product by building a strong pipeline across SMB and enterprise segments, while mentoring a high-performing team and collaborating with sales engineering, product, marketing, and partners to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
  • Key Responsibilities & Impact
  • Lead and mentor the Inside Account Management team, driving high velocity pipeline development across SMB and enterprise customers.
  • Support the global go-to-market and sales motion for Progress Agentic RAG, working closely with cross regional teams to drive opportunity creation and deal progression.
  • Focused on attaining an $8M revenue target by helping drive Product Led Growth (PLG) initiatives and optimising the sales engagement model.
  • Fine-tuned the self-serve trial and product experience, while providing guided support to prospects to ensure a smooth trial journey and improved deal movement through the sales lifecycle.
  • Built and managed a high velocity sales pipeline by identifying enterprise AI use cases across industries and engaging both SMB and enterprise-level customers.
  • Improved trial-to-opportunity and opportunity-to-close conversion rates by 4–5% through better qualification, structured follow-ups, and coordinated demo engagements.
  • Own and manage the end-to-end sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution positioning, demos with Sales Engineering, proposals, and deal closure.
  • Work cross-functionally with product, marketing, and customer success teams to align market feedback, PLG insights, and enterprise AI use cases into the broader go-to-market strategy.
  • Engage with enterprise technology leaders and decision makers to position Agentic RAG for knowledge automation, enterprise search, and AI-powered workflow transformation.
E-CommerceKey Account DevelopmentCustomer EngagementStakeholder ManagementStrategic Account DevelopmentBusiness Strategy+13

Sr. Account Manager

Dec 2024Sep 2025 · 9 mos

  • Exceeded yearly quota by 115%, generating $1M+ in net new business revenue
  • Transitioned to handling New Business after excelling in farming
  • Focused on renewing, upselling, and cross-selling to existing customers
  • Driving growth, value and revenue in new opportunities
Key Account DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementBusiness StrategyCustomer EngagementMicrosoft ExcelStrategic Account Growth+3

Account Manager

Dec 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs

  • Ownership and accountability for ensuring customer retention and growth within the assigned book of business.
  • Manage a healthy relationship with key stakeholders.
  • Ensuring multiple connections are established per accounts from various departments and roles to enable deeper account penetration.
  • Understand primary use cases, utilisation patterns & map out basic renewal requirements well in advance on each account
  • Achieve greater than 90% retention rate in terms of a number of accounts more importantly value of accounts.
  • Maintain long-term relationships by understanding customer’s business and aligning Chef’s current & future value-driving higher adoption & revenue
  • Focused effort in identification and execution of revenue expansion opportunities within assigned accounts, by distinct upsell and cross-sell motions
  • Accurate forecasting of any potential downgrades or churns, and offsetting them with a growth pipeline.
  • Manage a healthy and active pipeline to achieve and exceed quarterly/yearly goals
  • New Business: Responsible for nurturing sales opportunities to land new logos and revenue.
  • Work on opportunities identified by the Sales Development team and qualify them further to build sales pipeline
  • Help prospects realize Chef’s product capabilities and USP’s at every stage of the interaction by partnering with solution consultants
  • Accurate forecasting of deals at different stages of the sales cycle, thereby managing a healthy funnel of opportunities through the year
  • Execute all phases of the pipeline, partner with other teams as needed, and push deals through the sales cycle to eventually win new deals.
  • Manage sales lifecycle from customer engagement, solution development, and contract negotiation; meet or exceed annual revenue quota.
  • Develop executive relationships to increase revenue expansion potential, and to improve penetration into other departments
  • Maintain excellent data discipline in salesforce, by keeping your opportunities and accounts well updated at all times.
Key Account DevelopmentCustomer Journey MappingIT ServicesStakeholder ManagementBusiness StrategyCustomer Engagement+6

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  • We work with many blue chip organisations including nine out of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies in the world as well as many large global organizations in Retail, Consumer Goods, Media, Energy and Financial Services.
  • We help you deliver superior customer experiences consistently, enabling you to create long lasting differentiation that is sustainable.Using our advanced technology solutions we deliver growth through superior behavioral and cognitive analytics that help uncover what matters to customers and drive behavioral change.
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  • Responsible for the formulation and implementation of business strategies. Involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions.
  • Helping to drive leads and online traffic with web-based activities and programs.
  • Lead qualification and scoring.
  • Familiarity with CRM software.
  • Analytical approach to data.
  • Manage data for new and prospective clients in Salesforce.com and Outreach, ensuring all communications are logged, information is accurate and documents are attached, as well as
  • reporting and follow-up activities meet the organization requirements.
  • Identify key buying influencers' within these prospects to determine budget and timeline.
  • Support sales team to improve performance, control and maintenance of their leads.
  • Assessing the results of marketing campaigns.
  • Assist with Training booking.
  • A famous concept that summarizes the basic 4 pillars of any Marketing Strategy : Product, Price, Place, and Promotion.
Key Account DevelopmentCustomer Journey MappingIT ServicesCustomer EngagementStrategic Account GrowthMarketing Automation+2

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  • AGC is a Global Technology Solutions Integrator managing your IT while you focus on your core competencies to grow your business.
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  • ESDS is one of India’s leading Managed Data Center Service and only Auto-Scalable Cloud Solution provider.
  • ESDS has already moved aggressively in the direction of becoming India’s No.1 Cloud Hosting Company, establishing a huge clientele.
  • ESDS offers multiple Managed Cloud Hosting solutions in India using its patented auto-scalable eNlight Cloud platform. These are SAP Hosting (HANA, non-HANA, B1), Disaster Recovery Hosting (including Cross Platform DR), Oracle Database Hosting, ecommerce Hosting, Hosted Core Banking Solution and ISV alliance based SaaS offerings to various industry verticals.
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IT Services

Education

Texas McCombs School of Business

Post graduate program — Business analytics and business intellegence.

Jan 2019Jan 2021

Great Lakes Institute of Management

Post graduate program — Business Analytics and Business Interllegence

Jan 2019Jan 2021

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE

Bachlor of Engineering - BE — Information Science and Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2017

DreamZone School of Creative Studies

Master Diploma — Interior Architecture and Design

Jan 2012Jan 2013

P.V.P Polytechnic

Diploma — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2012

Frank Anthony Public School

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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