Abhi Sen Gupta, Head - Alliance & Partner Relations

Abhi Sen Gupta

Head - Alliance & Partner Relations

Quess Corp Limited

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Leadership Management
Experience
22 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 0 Months

Head - Alliance & Partner Relations at Quess Corp Limited
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since August 2018

Heading the OEM Alliance, Partner ecosystem, Enterprise Distributors, ISVs.
Quess is USD 2.5 Billion company spread across the globe. One of the fastest growing System Integrator and Managed IT service Provider.

Consultant - Sales & Marketing at SSG Software Systems Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • November 2017 to July 2018

Solutions Sales:

Driving the Sales and Marketing for Software Products, ERP, CRM, Implementation Projects, OTB, Software Development projects, SaaS integration etc. Managing the channels and alliances with GSP, ISV, SI and Hardware OEM

Head - Alliance & Channels at Ezetap Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2015 to October 2017

Business Development, Account Management and enhance business portfolios through successful partnerships for the mPOS space.
Expert in emerging payments, mobile pos, mobile money, m-commerce and mobile / payments technology inemerging markets
* Business strategy, product management & marketing.
* Conceptualization & implementation of new revenue opportunities.
* Overseeing existing business & managing key relationships.
* Understanding of regulations & current technology practices

Divisional Alliance Manager at Wipro Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • February 2012 to January 2015

* Driven annuity revenue of $ 20 Mn and services order booking of $ 35 Mn.
* Achieved high customer satisfaction through regular customer reviews, skill & resource planning and spares management.
Consistently maintained an average C-SAT score of 5.6 (Plan: 6).
*Partner ecosystem enhancement

Regional Sales Manager at Wipro Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2011 to January 2012

Division: Managed IT Services
I was handling sales for Managed IT services division with $10 Mn revenue target for Dubai and Abu Dhabi

• Generating new opportunities
* Consulting services to customers
• Business Transformation though changing delivery models- MP to SLA and SLA to Remote
* Managing large RFPs and Government tenders
• Ensure AMC renewal revenue are protected
• Won a large BFSI customer with deal value $3 Mn

Regional Sales Manager at Wipro Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • June 2010 to May 2011

• Generating new opportunities
• Meeting GM targets by selling innovative solutions like automation and SLA orders

People management
• Ensuring timely appraisal, feedback, ESAT, team meetings, Training
• Attrition management
• Ensuring proper commercial orientation for the team

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS
• Won the Best Region award for Q1, Q2 & Q4 2010

Senior Account Manager at Wipro Ltd., Bangalore & Mumbai
  • India - Bengaluru
  • June 2008 to May 2010

Division: Managed IT Services
I was responsible for P&L of South and West India regions

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS
• Won the Best Region award for Q3 2010
• Won the Best Deal Award for winning back a prestigious client in April 2010
• Won the Annual award for Best Business Retention for 2009-2010
• Won Best Business Retention Award for Q3 and Q4 for South 2 and West B consecutively
• Was the NLD champ for South 2 for the year 2008-2009
• Got CAB award for the year 2010 - This is a prestigious award given to very limited people for retention purpose

Assistant Bid Manager at EDS - MphasiS
  • India
  • May 2007 to June 2008

Presales and Bid Management for acquiring global clients (US & Europe).
* Involved in business research, market analysis including responding to RFI, RFP, ROI & Questionnaires. Was associated with
building industry specific business solution for BFSI, Retail, Automotive and Utilities verticals.
* Implemented Knowledge Management System for Global Sales Support.

Business Analyst at INFOSYS
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2004 to May 2007

Program Management and Operations Management

Freelancer at Freelacer
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2002 to March 2004

Freelancer May 2002 - March 2004
Sales & Marketing

I was working as a freelancer. It was more of a commission basis job, where I was working for Satyam Infoways's B2B sales of their website www.seekandsource.com and also products of Hutchison.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
• Worked as a deal consultant
• Sales of Sify.com products like Domain, sub-domain, websites, and internet connections
• Marketing for the B2B portal of Sify i.e. www.seekandsource.com.
• Product Launch for Sify's different products, which immigrated the market.
• Generating lead and conversion to revenue
• Promotions and Campaigns
• Selling Hutchison mobile connections
• Increasing sales
• More reference and business from clients.
• Maintaining excellent public relations.
Abhisen.
Mobile: +91 81050 99114

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS AND LEARNINGS
• Was awarded for achieving highest sales for the Q3 2003
• Customer satisfaction through providing high quality service and follow ups
• Professionalism, Positive attitude and sense of urgency are the important key learning.

Education

Master's degree, Leadership Management
  • at NIBM
  • April 2018
Bachelor's degree, Business Management
  • at Garden City College
  • April 2002

• 2002: Bachelors Degree in Business Management (B.B.M), Garden City College, Bangalore • Instron

High school or equivalent, Commerce
  • at South City College, Kolkata
  • March 1999

• 1999: HSC (10+2), South City College, Kolkata Major Subjects - Accountancy, Economics, Business

High school or equivalent, commerce
  • at A.K. Ghosh Memorial School
  • April 1997

• 1997: Madhyamik (10+), A.K. Ghosh Memorial School, Kolkata

Specialties & Skills

Program Management
SALES & BD
Relationship Building
Training
CLIENTS
RELATIONSHIP & ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT
NEGOTIATION
PROPOSALS
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
TRAINING
Pre sales
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
SERVICE DELIVERY MANAGEMENT
DIGITAL PAYMENT SOLUTIONS
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
SETTING UP SALES AND ALLIANCE FUNCTION

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker
Bengali
Native Speaker

Memberships

Youth Hostels Association of India
  • Life Member
  • November 2015

Training and Certifications

PRINCE2® Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2017
Valid Until:
July 2022
Internal Auditor for eSCM (Level 4) SP2 by UL(Underwriters Laboratories, (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2005
6 Thinking Hats - de Bono (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2009
7 Habits of Highly Effective People® - Franklin Covey (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2009
High Impact Presentations - Dale Carnegie (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2009

Hobbies

  • Wildlife Photography, Trekking & Adventure sports
    Attended many photography sessions and attended many trekking and mountaineering tours