Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan To Head Channels At Fujitsu

Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan Former Lenovo India VP Transaction.Sales, Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan is tipped to take over as the Head, Channels at Fujitsu India. The post has been vacant since P Raghuraman, General Manager, Channel and Volume Business, Fujitsu India, quit the Japanese vendor and joined AMD India as Director, Transaction Business.
Lakshminarayanan joined Lenovo India in 2008 August and was initially in charge of the Transaction Business. After Alex Li the present incumbent in the role of VP Transaction Business took over, he briefly looked after the SMB Business at Lenovo.
He later moved to Middle East, and now returns to India to head the Fujitsu channel business.
Before joining Lenovo, Lakshminarayanan had over 19 years of experience in handling channel, distribution and direct account business at HCL Infosystems. He was the Associate VP at HCL Infosystems. He is also credited with creating and nurturing Toshiba's laptop business in India, for almost a decade.

Sales, Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan is tipped to take over as the Head, Channels at Fujitsu India. The post has been vacant since P Raghuraman, General Manager, Channel and Volume Business, Fujitsu India, quit the Japanese vendor and joined AMD India as credited with creating and nurturing Toshiba's laptop business in India, for almost a decade.





The Carrer of Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan at a glance.


Current

* Vice President at Infoline LLC

Past
* Vice President at Infoline LLC
* Vice President at Lenovo India Limited
* Associate Vice President at HCL
* Founder & Consultant at Fugen Information Technology * General Manager at HCL Infosystems Limited
* Regional Sales Manager - North at HCL Infosytems Limited
* Area Sales Manager - Karnataka at HCL Infosystems Limited
* Area Sales Manager at HCL Infosystems Limited
* Sales Manager at HCL Limited



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Education

* R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore
* National College, Basavangudi, Bangalore
* Frank Anthony Public School

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Industry
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Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan’s Experience

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Vice President
Infoline LLC

(Computer Hardware industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Handling the sales and marketing for Hardware business, System Integration for Infoline LLC which is a part of the Bahwan Group. In addition I will also oversee the BPO business of Infoline.
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Vice President
Lenovo India Limited

(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

June 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Head of Sales for Consumer Business across India thru Distribution,Retail and Resller partners. I was responsible to devise distribution, retail strategy and make inroads into the up-country markets and sustain the major metros business. I was completly accountable for the P&L of my Division.
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Associate Vice President
HCL

(Computer Hardware industry)

January 2001 — May 2008 (7 years 5 months)

National Head of Sales for the Toshiba Laptops business for HCL Infosystems.I was responsible for the P&L of the Toshiba business which was about Rs. 200Cr (INR)annualy. In addition, also responsible for credit control, recievables and cash fllow for the whole of Frontline Division of HCL Infosystems Limited.
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Founder & Consultant
Fugen Information Technology

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 9 months)

This was a startup company which was venture funded by TVS Group. We provided Consulting and Field Force automation solutions across multiple verticals like Pharma, FMCG,Hospitality & IT business to enhance productivity.profitabilty ensuring higher yeild across the value chain.
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General Manager
HCL Infosystems Limited

(Computer Hardware industry)

June 1997 — May 1999 (2 years )

I was the head of the business for Frontline Division of HCL Infosystems responsible for sales in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. The objective of setting up retail,reseller and distribution was the primary responsibility along with ensuring adequate geo coverage across the length and breadth of the four southern states.
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Regional Sales Manager - North
HCL Infosytems Limited

(Computer Hardware industry)

August 1996 — June 1997 (11 months)

I was the head of the SMB business for the whole of the Northern part of India. The primary responsibilty was to set up channels for selling Servers, Destops and Toshiba Laptops to the SMB segment and Eductaion Institutes.
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Area Sales Manager - Karnataka
HCL Infosystems Limited

(Computer Hardware industry)

June 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 1 month)

I was responsible for setting up the SMB & Distribution channel across the state of Karnataka to sell HCL Destops, Servers, Toshiba Latops, HP Printers and Creative range of Products.
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Area Sales Manager
HCL Infosystems Limited

(Computer Hardware industry)

December 1992 — June 1995 (2 years 7 months)

The primary responsibility of handling Key Accounts in Bangalore to sell and position HCL Servers, HP RISC Servers, Apollo Workstation, HP Vectra Desktops in all PSU (HAL,ITI, BEML) and large corporate accounts like MICO,Arvind Mills & Titan Industries
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Sales Manager
HCL Limited

(Computer Hardware industry)

October 1989 — October 1992 (3 years 1 month)

Was responsbile for handling business for HCL Limited in Madhya Pradesh, Vidharbha and Chattisgarh handling all segments of business including SMB,Govt and Educational Institutes.I was also responsbile for handling the business from the coal belt of Western Coal Fields, South Eastern Coal Fields. We were selling PC and servers. For the coal industry,we provided both systems applications, hardware and entire infrastructure.

Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan’s Education

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R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore

B.Tech , Computer Science & Technology , 1984 — 1989
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National College, Basavangudi, Bangalore

PUC , Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics, Biology , 1982 — 1984

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Frank Anthony Public School

ICSE , 1971 — 1982