Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 · 9 mos

Jun 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

May 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs

• Establish the Indian software product ecosystem as a world class source of highly innovative and disruptive solutions.

Apr 2018 – Apr 2025 · 7 yrs · Bangalore India · Hybrid

• “Sankalp is a rare mix of a builder-maker and a manager-at-scale,” said Dheeraj Pandey, Nutanix Founder, CEO, and Chairman. “We look at India as a center of technology, both organic and inorganic. His authentic leadership style, obsession for the frontline, and deep conviction in continuous improvement will help reinforce our customer-centric culture as we transform into a scrappy big startup.”
• In his role, Saxena will lead India operations in Bangalore and Pune. The India engineering, design, support, and operations teams have made significant contributions to product and customer development at Nutanix.
• As the leader of operations in India, Saxena will also build on the momentum of the regional team and collaborate with global leadership to shape and execute India’s long-term and short-term growth strategy.

Jun 2017 – Mar 2018 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Focused on identifying and mentoring early stage startups with disruptive ideas which challenge the status quo and/or bring new innovative ideas to the market.
• A quote from George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman) is his mantra. It is “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in thinking to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Dec 2016 – May 2017 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Overall group leadership responsibilities to strategize and implement initiatives to drive new customer acquisition, strategic partnerships and new revenue streams across Europe. SLK Group is a dynamic technology, business consulting and outsourcing provider to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.

Aug 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Imbibing Knowledge - The Human Genome Learning Project!

Apr 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Overall responsibility for the majority of the total company revenue across 8 lines of businesses with a cross- functional team of 1,340 people located across 9 global locations. Significantly transformed the business to scale revenue growth from single digit to high double digit CAGR. Delivered disruptive results by negotiating and closing the largest deal with a global airline-of-consequence in the history of the company.
• The ABS SBU spans the entire lifecycle of the aviation sector across both the customer centric and operational aspects of the aviation business. It is comprised of eight (8) Lines of Businesses, namely: Passenger Reservation Systems, Loyalty, Staff Travel, Tours and Cruises, Airline Cargo Services, Flight Operations, Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering and Airport Operations.
• Helping transform businesses for customers by delivering quantifiable value continues to be his business mantra.

May 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Jan 2006 – Mar 2016 · 10 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Founded the next-generation enterprise mobility product company in Bangalore and successfully raised US$2.2 Mn in angel funding across 2 rounds. Both rounds were significantly oversubscribed. Negotiated and closed the merger of Moveo Systems with IBS and ensured all team members were integrated into the new organization. Successfully completed an exit to a top-tier PE firm netting a triple digit return on invested capital.
• Customer referenceability has been one of the key parameters at Moveo and this has been instrumental in enabling Moveo to win several blue-chip customer contracts in India. From the erstwhile Governor of the Reserve Bank of India to the Vice Chairman of the GVK Group to the CEO of Bangalore Airport – all of these individuals have become strong advocates of the value Moveo Systems brings to their respective organizations.

Oct 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos

• As the Chairman and Managing Director of Macromedia’s Indian operations – the 1st offshore R&D initiative for the company - he successfully established the Bangalore Center of Excellence. In this capacity, he was responsible for developing and successfully implementing a four-pronged India strategy, namely: (i) Establishing a robust product engineering footprint for all Macromedia products; (ii) Driving the go-to-market sales efforts; (iii) Establishing strategic relationships with key system integrators; and (iv) Defining an engagement model with premier academic institutions.

Oct 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos

• As the Chairman and Managing Director of Macromedia’s Indian operations – the 1st offshore R&D initiative for the company - he successfully established the Bangalore Center of Excellence. In this capacity, he was responsible for developing and successfully implementing a four-pronged India strategy, namely: (i) Establishing a robust product engineering footprint for all Macromedia products; (ii) Driving the go-to-market sales efforts; (iii) Establishing strategic relationships with key system integrators; and (iv) Defining an engagement model with premier academic institutions.

Aug 2000 – Sep 2004 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• As the Chairman and Managing Director of i2’s Indian operations, he established a team of over 1,100 employees (48% of global headcount) who successfully delivered over 85% of i2’s global software development and consulting efforts and was also managing a P&L of over US$50 million. In this capacity, he was recognized by Harvard University as one of the two best outsourcing successes in India for his transformation of i2 Technologies.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs

May 1999 – Aug 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos · Redwood Shores, CA

• Championed the overall SCM and B2B exchange value propositions for deployment in sales cycles. Negotiated 3 of the larges industry consortia B2B exchange deals for automotive, retail and aviation. Managed a SWAT team of individuals for creation and deployment of key go-to-market strategies for all joint venture industry consortia exchanges. Created both license and SaaS pricing models for Oracle exchanges. Created eBusiness go-to-market strategies across 6 Asia Pacific vertical industry solutions to drive share-of- wallet versus market-share sales cycles. Articulated and evangelized product positioning statements with the press and analyst communities.

Aug 1995 – Feb 1999 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Silicon Valley and Japan

• Overall responsibility for design wins, bookings, billing, customer engagement, forecasting and pricing for ORCA FPGAs for two of the top global revenue producing regions for Lucent (Silicon Valley and Asia Pacific). Increased revenue by 250% and design wins by 400% with the implementation of country specific strategies for Japan, Korea, China, India, Taiwan, Australia and Singapore. Managed a team of marketing and field-application-engineers across 5 countries in APAC to drive close customer collaboration and achieve annual financial goals for the SBU.

Jul 1991 – Jul 1995 · 4 yrs · Phillipsburg NJ

• Overall team management responsibilities for continuous 3-shift operation of acid distillation and packaging operations. Created new operations algorithms for line scheduling and inventory management which resulted in disruptive business enhancements. Improved customer service levels from 67% to 95%; increased capacity utilization by 40%; and reduced obsolete inventory by US$2 Mn. Achieved ISO9001, FDA cGMP and EPA certifications for the Acids Operations.

Aug 1987 – Jul 1991 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Fort Washington PA

• Transformed ST3000 production line from a push-based to a pull-based production operation using Just-in- Time / Kanban methodologies. Optimized product and process workflows for over (170) ST3000 product combinations to reduce defect ratios and increase order line fill rates. Managed a project team of 8 engineers to design and validate robot-centered workcells for the ST3000 product line. Developed an optimized production layout for a new 200,000 sq ft factory in Phoenix, AZ.