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Mr. Prakash Balakrishnan

 
Current Employer:
MC
Title:
Marketing Manager
Location:
Manama, Capital, Bahrain


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Knowledge Summary

This Maven is a Marketing manager with over 17 years of broad ranging professional experience in driving sales of IT solutionss and services to C-level executives and business owners in Government sectors, banking, oil & gas in Bahrain and in India.

A highly motivated, self driven individual with a solid track record in delivering double digit revenue growth in aggressive markets in the Bahrain and India with established firms with a focus on IT products and services. An exceptional communicator, keen listener with strong client needs assessment, presentation, negotiation and business closing skills.

Currently involved in developing business for IT business software solutions like ERP, CRM, BI, Bespoke etc etc , services & turnkey projects to Government, banking and other institutions in Bahrain.

In the past have been successful in driving business for system integration projects especially in Government.

Specialties

• Bid management especially in Public sector
• Relationship Marketing
• Key Account Management
• Alliance / Partner Management
• Contracts Negotiation
• Multi Country sales experience
. Project Management

Experience

Current Employer:
AC
Title:
Sales Manager
Dates:
Mar 2014 - Present
Description:

Account Management
Team management
Application software business
eGovernance domain specialist


Past Experience:
MC
Title:
Marketing Manager
Dates:
Jun 2012 - Mar 2014
Description:

and the activities shall include the following:
• Managing the sales team
• Formulating the marketing strategies


Past Experience:
Zayani Infosystems Middle East, Bahrain
Title:
Business Manager- Business software solutions & services
Dates:
Jun 2008 - Aug 2012
Description:

Incharge of Business Development for Solutions and services Sales. Responsible for business unit profitability, team building, generating high value deals in the areas of application software/ turnkey projects like ERP (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft


Past Experience:
NeST Technologies Inc.
Title:
Asstt Manager
Dates:
Jan 2004 - Dec 2006
Description:

Worked with NeST systems Pvt Ltd as Asst Manager (Business development) for selling IT Solutions based at Trivandrum, Kerala. The assignment included management of the branch activities at Trivandrum office which is comprising of sales, technical


Past Experience:
CMC Limited
Title:
Sr.Business Development Executive
Dates:
Dec 1996 - Feb 2004
Description:

IT solutions & services sales/ project management/ Account management

Worked as Senior Business Development Executive in CMC Ltd at various places like NewDelhi, Trivandrum & Cochin.


Job Profile in CMC

Selling very large IT software


Knowledge, Keywords & Publications

Education & Languages

National Institute of Business Development

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

1989 - 1993

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Technology

Certifications & Licenses