Kannan Sasikumar

As India Head of Software & Services at Lenovo, I oversee P&L and growth strategies for the Software & Services business, focusing on enterprise and global accounts. My role emphasizes driving business growth and fostering impactful CXO-level engagements to deliver comprehensive solutions that meet client needs. My expertise lies in business growth, ancillary revenue, and strategic engagements, built on a foundation of leadership roles in cloud, security, managed services, and data center domains. I am committed to aligning organizational objectives with market opportunities to achieve sustainable success.

Led regional business for Cloud, Security, Managed Services, and Data Center

Heading enterprise business in South region. Driving sales growth in line with organization goals. 
 Inspira Enterprise is a leading global end to end IT solution provider with expertise in Cyber Security, Big Data & Analytics, Networking & Data Center, Smart Solutions that comprises Smart City Solutions, ITMS & Digital Healthcare. Over 12 years in the business, Inspira has expanded across countries like Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kenya, Ethiopia & the USA. With a team of over 700 professionals, Inspira has been identified as 'Great Place to Work' for four years in a row. Inspira recognizes that their employees are the bedrock of their success and continuously strive to better their practices and enhance employee experience. The company is an ISO, CMMI Level 5 certified company and is leading the digital transformation of companies in India and across the globe. Inspira has helped clients maximize their business performance with domain expertise, innovative project management, and comprehensive, full-spectrum services. The company's clientele includes both Central & State Governments, Defense, Banking Financial Services & Insurance, IT / ITeS, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Smart City and Enterprise verticals. For more details do visit www.inspiraenterprise.com

Led national business development for enterprise connectivity and cloud services

Advanced to Assistant General Manager role to serve as a key member of executive team developing sales strategies for new logo vertical. Direct a team of 10 sales Key Account managers and their respective staff. Formulate business-development strategies to drive revenue growth.

* Major responsibility involves new logo sales & acquisition of identified high revenue potential customers. * Emphasized more on IDC collocation and managed services IaaS along with voice & data. * Build & maintain relationship with the key decision makers in the allocated accounts. * Keep a track of the clients business initiatives and future plans and analyze its impact on the business. * Identify the opportunities for the new products, services & applications & enhancing the existing infrastructure for additional revenue.

Managed GCC region for cybersecurity solutions

Bulwark Technologies LLC happens to be the distributor for various IT Security and Management Solutions for the Middle East. * Responsible for driving a team of people in sales, support and administration for corporate sales and channel development covering UAE, Oman, Qatar & Bahrain to get new logo sales from the accounts falls under IT/ITES vertical. * Essayed a stellar role in getting entry for Bulwark to large BFSI vertical

Enterprise infrastructure sales (servers, storage)