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Sameer Kalsi

Sameer Kalsi

ICT Sales Specialist/ Cybersecurity
Melbourne

Summary

National Sales manager results-driven new business development sales professional, helping customers with cybersecurity, risk management solution to beat threat actors by using AI and ML, worked with critical infrastructure customers. Possess a strong network of customers, understanding of the industry led frameworks, and a skilled profession positions niche frameworks, presenting to stakeholders, ability to follow through complete sales cycle from demand generation to winning the opportunity. Track record helping global organizations to expand in Australia, helped in achieving the strategic and revenue targets. Have delivered the revenue of 1.5 million U$ in year one. I am an experience professional operating in ANZ for 10 years, with a total 19 years’ experience. For past 7 years achieving the sales with a background in selling SAAS solutions covering offensive and defensive cybersecurity solutions.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Development Manager

Terrabyte Group
6 2023 - Current
  • Created the sales strategy and tracked the achievement and clocked a business ARR of 1.5 million USD in year one with 120% of achievement
  • Started the business of Terrabyte in Australia by targeting mid-market customers and partners
  • Managing ANZ territory for driving new business development for Australia interacting with customers
  • Creating the sales campaigns and working with marketing team
  • Providing customers with the managed services solution targeting OT, IT and IoT
  • Strong relationships with channels onboarded customers from critical infrastructure sector, including Healthcare and ENU
  • Helped customers in bridging the gaps with positioning people, technology and processes
  • Onboarded clients from critical infrastructure, helping them to meet compliance, data security and governance

Account Executive

Digicert Inc
04.2022 - 02.2023
  • Responsible for bringing new logo selling identity, authentication and data security solutioning and services
  • Delivered 109 % plus business growth in the first year by smashing a target of 1.7 million USD target within enterprises, onboarded 13 new customers, which include the financial sector public sector (federal and state government), the largest healthcare providers, education (large universities), e-commerce sector
  • Onboarded one of the largest health care departments securing OT, IT and IoT footprint
  • Developed the use cases with Microsoft to achieve zero-trust using DigiCert certificates
  • Achieved a strong trust with customers and partners to deliver the outcomes
  • Have a strong understanding of customer challenges, done value-based selling, drafted the unique value proposition by understanding customers problems and resolving

Regional Sales Director

Group-IB
12.2020 - 04.2022
  • Started Group-IB business development ANZ region and won the largest of logos in FSI, public sector telecommunication and other sectors
  • I am responsible for sales and do presales (initial level) for solutions, Delivered sales of 1.8 million USD annually
  • Developed strong relationships with customers and won large deals in FSI, won large logos, displaced the existing defensive and offensive solutions
  • Sold financial fraud and investigation and case management, threat hunting, Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), EDR, Attack surface management, third-party risk management solutions and brand protection solutions delivering cybersecurity defensive and offensive technologies
  • Brought 11 new customers including the largest of FSI and transport companies and cross-sales

Practice Manager

Wipro
11.2020 - 01.2018
  • Lead Cybersecurity Risk Services practice for Australia South, managing relationships with vendors
  • Smashing the targets by 110%, managed all 6 services lines of cybersecurity for the region
  • Having a strong relationship at all the levels within customers, vendors and industry advisors which helped in driving sell to and sell through business
  • Responsible for managed services solutions for cloud, workspace and applications
  • Managed and delivered 4.5 million USD which was achieved at 110% growth
  • Sold managed services solutions including managed detection and response solution, risk and compliance frameworks and consultancy
  • Generated 30 million USD net new pipeline
  • Understanding frameworks like AESCSF, CPS 234, ASD, Essential Eight etc., which help me to position right solutions
  • As a alliance manager brought 3 million services business by collaborating with vendors, got net new opportunities
  • Managed vendor relationship for APAC as additional responsibility

Practice lead APJ, MEA

Wipro
01.2018 - 08.2007
  • Managing Cybersecurity, networking, cloud and advanced technology service lines for APJ, MEA, and India during this tenure
  • Achieved the sales targets of the business units, managed vendor relationship
  • Clocked more than 100% of targets for 8 years out of 10 years
  • Received the recognition, won large deal award from Wipro and vendors

Education

MBA - Business Administration, Telecommunications

Birla Institute of Management and Technology - BIM TECH
01.2002 - 01.2004

Skills

ICT & Cybersecurity

Accomplishments

  • Achieving sales quota for past 7 years by more than 105%.
  • Scaled cybersecurity vendors in Australia, achieving 1.5 million USD revenue in year one and achieving corporate goals.
  • Winning large deals by securing OT network, healthcare sectors at OT and IoT. Have reference customers in critical infrastructure space. Created is the use case by collaborating with health care customer having 35K IOT and OT devices, helped then with data security, zero trust capabilities.
  • Strong references from customers, partners and advisors on business ethics.
  • Having a clientele of three of the big four banks, government departments, education sector customers and ENU customers.
  • Won Outsourcing deals with a TCV of 20 million USD.
  • Instrumental in doing the demand generation campaigns, by representing in AISA, CISO conferences as exhibitors and speaker.
  • While working with Wipro, increased the professional services of 3.8 million as ACV through vendors.

Timeline

Account Executive

Digicert Inc
04.2022 - 02.2023

Regional Sales Director

Group-IB
12.2020 - 04.2022

Practice Manager

Wipro
11.2020 - 01.2018

Practice lead APJ, MEA

Wipro
01.2018 - 08.2007

MBA - Business Administration, Telecommunications

Birla Institute of Management and Technology - BIM TECH
01.2002 - 01.2004

Business Development Manager

Terrabyte Group
6 2023 - Current
Sameer KalsiICT Sales Specialist/ Cybersecurity