Soumya Choudhury

Vice President - Head of Vertical Sales, Digital Industries @ Siemens

About

I recently joined Siemens as Head of Vertical Sales of Siemens Digital Industries with three decades of experience in the Indian market. I am responsible for Sales in all key verticals like Auto, A&D, Semiconductor & Electronics, Cement, Metals & Mining, Chemicals, Energy, Life Sciences, CPG, F&B, Water and for Account Management of our key customers. Previously I led Sales & BD across verticals for TCS Korea based in Seoul and earlier, managed Consulting & BD for TCS’ APAC Manufacturing based out of Bangalore. By education, I am an Electrical Engineer from IIT Bombay with a Post Graduate in General Management (MBA) from IIM Ahmedabad. I started my post MBA career in Financial Services Consulting and then transitioned into Investment Banking / M&A by joining DSP Merrill Lynch and focused on the Industrial sector (Automotive, Auto-components, Construction Machinery, Chemicals & Fertilizers and Cement). Later, I would get into Telecom and Information Technology M&A mandates at Dresdner Kleinwort and KPMG CF. Towards the end of the first decade, I was the Sector Lead for the Automotive and Telecom industries within KPMG CF. Worked on some marquee large deals in India which were first of a kind and complex deals.With a desire to get real operational experience, I joined one of my ex-clients and India's largest steering company Sona Koyo Steering as General Manager & Head of Corporate Finance in 2003 reporting directly to the Chairman & CEO. Thereafter, I was given a chance to create and run a new Business Unit (Indian Autoparts Sourcing SBU) by setting up a cross-border auto-component supply chain organization with a supplier quality assurance & logistics management team in India and France with necessary support of the virtual parent organization's shared functions. I was able to scale up the business to four Tier 1 clients.I joined IBM in March 2008 to enter the Tech Industry and spent around five years leading the M&A - CorpDev / BusDev team within IBM India. Subsequently, moved to a Services Executive Role in Jan 2013 within IBM's Application Management Services (ADM) Business Unit for Large Sized Services Deals (Strategic Outsourcing) and also cover Application Innovation mandates in Fintech (Blockchain) towards the end of my second decade. Post IBM, I had a 3 year stint in running a startup Visilogix which was into Supply Chain Planning & Optimisation tools & services. I also double-hatted as an Adjunct Professor at IFIM Business School (JagSoM) teaching courses in Supply Chain, Analytics, Statistics, Digital Biz & FinTech/Blockchain.

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Allyship, Social Influence, Strategy Consulting, Identifying New Opportunities, Corporate Strategy, Business Planning, Relationship Building, Sales Leadership, People Development, Growth Strategies, Problem Solving, Deals, Communication, Business Ideas, Strategic Relationships, Deal Development, Supply Chain Management, Customer Acquisition, Team Leadership, Business Relationship Management

Experience

Vice President - Head of Vertical Sales, Digital Industries

Siemens

2026-5 - Present · 5 mos

India

Heading Vertical Sales and Key Accounts for Siemens Digital Industries focused on Factory Automation, Process Automation and Business Transformation across key verticals - Auto, Cement, Oil & Gas, F&B, Chemicals, Pharma, Metals, Emerging Technologies.

Sales Head - TCS Platforms, Central Europe & UK

Tata Consultancy Services

2026-1 - 2026-4 · 4 mos

Bengaluru

Head of Sales & BD - TCS South Korea

Tata Consultancy Services

2024-4 - 2025-12 · 1 yr 9 mos

Seoul, South Korea

Heading Sales and Business Development for TCS Korea with cross-industry focus.

Managing Partner - Consulting & BD, APAC Manufacturing

Tata Consultancy Services

2023-6 - 2024-4 · 11 mos

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Leading the team of Consulting & BD Partners & professionals within MFG, TCS NGM APAC

Consulting and BD Partner - APAC Manufacturing

Tata Consultancy Services

2022-4 - 2023-5 · 1 yr 2 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

My role in TCS NGM APAC is for the Manufacturing Vertical which primarily focuses on Auto and Discrete Manufacturing. Focus was on large deals and with client focus in South Korea.

Adjunct Professor of Supply Chain and FinTech. Area Chair : Finance

JAGSoM - Jagdish Sheth School of Management

2019-8 - 2022-4 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Bangalore

Co-founder & CEO

Abc

2019-3 - 2022-4 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Co-founder & Director

EldersIndia

2018-3 - 2019-2 · 1 yr

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Client Solutions Executive

IBM

2013-1 - 2018-2 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Bengaluru Area, India

Sales Lead responsible for structuring and concluding large IT Managed Services Deals with Fortune 100 clients across industry sectors. Due to the convergence of Digital with conventional Enterprise Applications, help integrate digital offerings (CAMS) with conventional ERP upgrades along with cognitive automation (RPA etc.). One of my focus domains was Blockchain Business Development for GBS I/SA. I was fortunate to be part of 6 Large Deals across Industrial, BFSI and Public Sector where I was the IBM CSE and won 5 of them over spirited competition from other Large IT firms like TCS, Cognizant and Accenture over the five years I was in that role.

Vice President - Corporate Development

IBM

2010-12 - 2013-1 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Head the Corporate Development / Business Development function for IBM India which involves the M&A / Divestitures, Strategic Investments and maintaining PE/VC relationships within the company

Program Director - Corporate Development

IBM

2008-3 - 2010-12 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Part of the in-house Corporate Strategy and Corporate Finance team of IBM India. Presently located at Bangalore

Asst. Vice President & Head (Sourcing SBU)

Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd

2005-4 - 2008-3 · 3 yrs

The Strategic Business Unit provided component sourcing assistance to Tier 1 autosuppliers (primarily based in Europe) including quality assurance and delivery to manufacturing plant in Europe

General Manager - Corporate Finance & Strategy

Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd

2003-11 - 2005-3 · 1 yr 5 mos

Corporate Finance/M&A Head for Sona Group which culminated in a European JV with Fuji Kiko, JTEKT and Arjan Auto in India and a >Eur 100 mm outbound acquisition in Europe - ThyssenKrupp Prazissionschmiede GmbH in Germany (now Sona Comstar). Also responsible for Fund Raising and assisted the Chairman on devising Corporate Strategy for the Sona Group.

Vice President

KPMG US

2001-5 - 2003-10 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Responsible for M&A deal origination and execution in the Automotive, Industrials, IT and Telecom sectors. Worked on multiple deals across Telecom M&A (VSNL privatisation, BSNL-MTNL merger, RPG Cellular), Auto (Daewoo Restructuring, Punjab Tractors Privatisation, Maruti Golden Share Valuation), Industrial (Bayer Agri) and others. Incidentally, Punjab Tractors Privatisation won the Euromoney Deal of the Year 2003-04.

Vice President

Commerzbank AG

2000-4 - 2001-3 · 1 yr

Responsible for Business Development and IPO origination for technology companies and startups planning to list on the US or European Stock exchanges

Asst. Vice President

Merrill Lynch

1997 - 2000 · 3 yrs

Originated and executed M&A deals in the Automotive & Cement industry including the largest cross border cement deal (Lafarge-Tata Steel Cement), largest hostile acquisition (India cement - Raasi Cement), largest cement merger (Grasim-Indian Rayon) and the strategic stake of Hitachi into Tata Motors Construction Equipment business and Caterpillar's acquisition of HML's Earthmoving Equipment business in the late 1990s.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Business Administration and Management, General

1994 - 1996 · 2 yrs

Post Graduate Diploma in General Management with a specialization in Finance

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

1989 - 1993 · 4 yrs

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with projects on Rule based Expert Systems and Pattern Recognition using Artificial Neural Networks