Shashidhar Shastri

Biography

With over eight years in his current role, he sets the roadmap for business development and strategic alliances that accelerate growth in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sectors.

As an enterprising professional, Shashidhar possesses a proven track record of managing Global and National Accounts, excelling at market expansion, and consistently driving multi-million dollar deals across Applications, Infrastructure, and BPO. His strategic mind set, honed through senior roles at organizations like Mphasis, Crompton Greaves Ltd, Trimax, PCS Technologies and as a Co-founder of SMS Telecom, ensures disciplined revenue growth and profitability.

Shashidhar’s unique strength lies in his ability to understand complex customer challenges and offer unique, insightful, technology-driven solutions. He is renowned for his out-of-the-box approach, redefining problems to ensure every strategy yields maximum return on investment (ROI). His expertise is further complemented by a cross-disciplinary background, holding an M.Sc. in Physics (Electronics), an MBA in Marketing Management, and a specialization in Climate Change and Health Specialist (Certificate in Climate Change and Health from Yale School of Public Health).A dynamic & highly accomplished, resourceful, and high-energy Business Development Professional with broad experience including global/national accounts management complemented by extensive account development and cultivation of new markets/ territories with a diverse functional expertise in Healthcare, Manufacturing and Telecom with a tenacious commitment for driving sales, profit, market share & growth in highly competitive environments.

Established enterprising leader with comprehensive skills in consultative selling, cross sell and up-sell into accounts, drive and manage multi-million dollar deals (across Applications, Infrastructure & BPO). Understanding customers business challenges and how technology can drive business with unique insights are his strengths. The ability to assess solutions and their ROI redefines and some times restate the problem are quite out-of-the-box inputs.

Key Skills:
– Enterprise Sales across Infrastructure, Applications, BPO for Services/Products
– Strategic Planning, Global Business Development, Operations Management
– Profit Centre Operations, Business Integration
– Process Improvements, Business Growth, Market Expansion
– Alliance management & Customer relationships