Harish Krishnan

Associate Vice President & Pre-sales Head, Infrastructure & Cloud Technology services @ Birlasoft

About

Harish is a seasoned Business Leader with over 2 decades of experience in the Cloud and Infrastructure services business. He is accomplished at Growing businesses, Leading pre-sales, Building practices and Managing Transitions & Operations. Has proven track record handling multiple leadership roles across Sales, Pre-sales, Practice and Delivery with experience working with customers and partners across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Key roles handled include -- Global Pre-sales Head, Practice Head, Business Head (Healthcare & Life sciences) and Global Transition Head. He has led key strategic initiatives for Cloud and Infrastructure services business - Digital, Consulting and Wipro Ventures portfolio. He is focused on business growth, has a strong execution rigor, has astute problem solving skills and is adept at building high performance teams. He is an alumnus of IIT Delhi (B.Tech) and IIM Bangalore (PGDM).

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Strategic Planning, Pre-sales, IT Strategy, Global Delivery, Outsourcing, Business Management, IT Outsourcing, Solution Architecture, Project Management, Service Delivery, Business Development, Sales, Offshoring, Team Management, Leadership, Management, Transition Management, Solutions Marketing, Generative AI

Experience

Associate Vice President & Pre-sales Head, Infrastructure & Cloud Technology services

Birlasoft

2021-4 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Responsible for leading the Pre-sales and solutioning function globally. Also, responsible for managing and growing the alliance partner ecosystem. In addition, am responsible for leading the analyst engagement for ICTS business.

General Manager & Practice Head - PaaS and DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure services

Wipro

2020-4 - 2021-3 · 1 yr

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for building differentiated propositions and growing the PaaS, Containers and DevOps business for Cloud and Infrastructure services.

Practice Head - Emerging Practices and Digital Leader, Global Infrastructure services

Wipro

2016-4 - 2020-3 · 4 yrs

Bangalore

Responsible for leading the Nextgen practices encompassing SDI, DevOps and Open-source solutions across Hybrid Multi-Cloud ecosystem. During this period also successfully led multiple Strategic initiatives - Digital, Consulting and Wipro Ventures portfolio for Global Infrastructure services. Best Service Line award from Wipro Ventures team - 2019-20

Global Pre-sales head, Global Infrastructure services

Wipro

2014-4 - 2016-3 · 2 yrs

Bangalore

Responsible for leading the Pre-sales function globally for Global Infrastructure services. Pivoted seamlessly to Geo based pre-sales structure, scaled up the team significantly, revamped the processes and enhanced bid win ratio

Business Head, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Global Infrastructure services

Wipro

2012-4 - 2014-3 · 2 yrs

Bangalore

Responsible for business for HLS Business unit within Global Infrastructure services. "Best Business Unit within GIS" and "Best Service Line within HLS" awards for 2 consecutive years - 2012-13, 2013-14

Practice Head, End User Computing, Global Infrastructure services

Wipro

2010-4 - 2012-3 · 2 yrs

Bangalore

Responsible for enhancing and strengthening the End user computing services practice within Infrastructure services business. Built partnerships with several Global and Niche partners in the Workspace and Collaboration space.

Global Transition Head, Global Infrastructure services

Wipro

2006-1 - 2010-3 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Bangalore

Responsible for overseeing Managed services and Total outsourcing services transitions globally within Global Infrastructure services. Built and scaled up the Transition Framework, led 80+ transitions. Won Wipro Winners' Circle award for successfully leading a large transition - 2006