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Ankit Narchal

Summary

Dynamic and results-oriented international leader and IT professional with 19+ years of extensive experience in driving sales leadership and strategic initiatives. Proven track record in managing large deal pursuits, enterprise architecture, and cultivating strong channel alliances. Passionate about innovative IT transformation solutions that address complex business challenges.

Sales Leadership

  • Proven sales leader with a track record in building and coaching high performance teams
  • Deliver exceptional strategic, operational, business, and sales leadership to high-performing international teams. Expertise spans key disciplines including Strategic Sales, Large and Complex Deal Management, new business revenue streams, Fostering strategic partnerships, Consultative Selling, Solution Strategy, Negotiation, Consulting Engagement, and Bid Management.

Large-Scale IT Transformation Successfully engaged in large, complex multi-million dollar IT transformation initiatives, with long term and multi-million dollar deals.

Consultative Selling to Executives Focus on consultative strategic selling to CXOs and business owners, effectively identifying and addressing their business pain points while articulating tailored value propositions.

Innovative Solution tailored to the business need and outcome driven proposition:

  • Digital and IT Transformation
  • Data & AI
  • Application Modernization

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Sales, ASEAN

SoftwareONE Private Ltd.
11.2020 - Current
  • · Leading Digital Transformation business including Cloud, Applications, Data & Gen AI and SAP for SoftwareOne ASEAN. including business lead for multiple sales reps and territories managing key & strategic accounts.
  • · Engaged in annual budget planning for ASEAN aligned to SoftwareOne business portfolios with focus on achieving Revenue and EBITDA goals.
  • · Driving internal organization transformation focusing on identifying current sales and delivery operating model gaps, Sales efficiency, ASEAN market analysis, market demands, IT regulatory requirements, working with Country MDs to implement measures, governance model meeting the market demands and GTM.
  • · Growing Microsoft business revenue with over 40% YOY since 2021
  • · Increased market capture across ASEAN between 10-28% with massive growth in emerging markets like Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines
  • · Developed, streamlined and Increased net new client acquisition
  • · Acquired large Enterprise logos with recurring revenue supporting between 25-30% of ASEAN revenue
  • · Developed and lead new business/revenue streams in the organization and giving edge over competition with over 120% YOY growth; strong channeled momentum with multiple consulting and ISV partners:
  • · AWS business in FY 2022 with 150%+ YOY growth since 2022, fostering strategic collaboration resulting into sponsorship from Regional and Country leadership as a key partner
  • · Industry focus Sales initiatives focusing on FSI and Retail – combining partners business strategy to SoftwareOne technology consulting strength
  • · Strategic business initiative with key ISV partners – MongoDB, Snowflake and Databricks
  • · Created and delivered GTM sell with and sell through campaigns with key ISVs including SnowFlake, Databricks and MongoDB resulting in sales revenue of $5M
  • · Diversified high dependency on transaction and low margin to high value and recurring services business; currently 54% of revenue

FY 2025 – 4 out of 15 team members are awarded for the presidents club 2025

Awarded with Presidents Club 2023 and 2025

Regional Sales Lead, SEA

Telstra
11.2019 - 10.2020

Global Strategic Sales, Cloud & Apps Business

BT Singapore Pte. Ltd
10.2017 - 11.2019

Head of Specialist Sales, APAC

CenturyLink Singapore Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 10.2017

Senior Consultant

Capgemini India pvt. Ltd
11.2010 - 06.2011

Virtualization Lead

VMware Software
05.2009 - 10.2010

Technical Engineer

Symantec Software Ltd
07.2007 - 05.2009

Technical Engineer

vCustomer Pvt. Ltd
04.2006 - 06.2007

Education

Bachelors Of Engineering - Electronics &Telecommunications - 2005

G. H. Raisoni College Of Engineering
Nagpur, MH
2005

Skills

  • Sales Leadership and Business Head
  • Sales Strategy & Planning
  • Executive Relationship Management
  • Sales & Contract Negotiations
  • Sales Strategy – Miller Heiman, Corporate Vision
  • Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF 92)
  • Hybrid Cloud, SaaS, IaaS (AWS, Azure, VMWare, Hyper Converged Infrastructure)
  • Application Modernization, DevOps, Kubernetes, Containers, Microservices & SAP

Honors & Awards

SoftwareOne President's Club 2025

SoftwareOne  President's Club 2023

CenturyLink Brand Ambassador of the Year - 2016 

Most Valuable Player - 2015 

SE of the Year - 2015 

CenturyLink Brand Ambassador of the year - 2014




Timeline

Head of Sales, ASEAN

SoftwareONE Private Ltd.
11.2020 - Current

Regional Sales Lead, SEA

Telstra
11.2019 - 10.2020

Global Strategic Sales, Cloud & Apps Business

BT Singapore Pte. Ltd
10.2017 - 11.2019

Head of Specialist Sales, APAC

CenturyLink Singapore Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 10.2017

Senior Consultant

Capgemini India pvt. Ltd
11.2010 - 06.2011

Virtualization Lead

VMware Software
05.2009 - 10.2010

Technical Engineer

Symantec Software Ltd
07.2007 - 05.2009

Technical Engineer

vCustomer Pvt. Ltd
04.2006 - 06.2007

Bachelors Of Engineering - Electronics &Telecommunications - 2005

G. H. Raisoni College Of Engineering
Ankit Narchal