Milind Prabhudesai

Milind Prabhudesai

CEO, Co-Founder at BizKonnect

BizKonnect•Pune, Maharashtra, India

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Experience34+ Years
LevelLeadership

Executive Overview

A management professional with an entrepreneurial drive and passion to scale up businesses globally. Strongly believes that people do business with someone they trust and most of the business happens through network. BizKonnect, his current company, is founded with the same belief to help companies scale up their businesses globally. Before BizKonnect, he helped Xpanxion, a software services company, to acquire marquee global clients, to accelerate sales, right through its successful acquisition by UST Global. Prior to joining Xpanxion, he was heading the India operations for mValent, a Boston-based software product company acquired by Oracle. Also helped eGain Communications, a Sunnyvale ( CA ) based software product company to set up and grow their services and solutions business unit in India. Spent extensive time as a manager for Ernst & Young Consulting in their Chicago office working on global engagements with clients like Motorola and Sony. Has worked with Wipro Systems, as an account coordinator and technical consultant for the GE Aircraft Engines account in Cincinnati, USA. Started his career as a software professional with the Management Services Division of Telco ( Tata Engineering ). Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the National Institute of Technology (NIT/REC), Nagpur and an MBA (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • BizKonnectCurrent
    Aug 2015–Present· 11 yrs 2 mos
    • Co-Founder and Chief Executive OfficerCurrent
      Aug 2015–Present
  • Aug 2005–Aug 2015· 10 yrs
    • Chief Operating Officer - India
      Aug 2005–Aug 2015
  • Jun 2004–Aug 2005· 1 yr 2 mos
    • Director of India Operations
      Jun 2004–Aug 2005
  • Oct 2001–Jun 2004· 2 yrs 8 mos
    • Director of India - Services and Solutions
      Oct 2001–Jun 2004
  • Oct 1998–Oct 2001· 3 yrs
    • Manager
      Oct 1998–Oct 2001
  • May 1996–Sep 1998· 2 yrs 4 mos
    • Associate Consultant, Manager, Onsite Coordinator
      May 1996–Sep 1998
  • 1992–1994· 2 yrs
    • GET
      1992–1994

Education

MBA

Management - Finance, Systems, Marketing

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

BE

Electronics

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

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Milind Prabhudesai
Vice Chair & President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Operating Officer

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Business IntelligenceProduct ManagementAgile MethodologiesSaaSPre-salesVendor ManagementManagementSDLCSoftware Project ManagementProgram ManagementCloud ComputingRequirements AnalysisBusiness StrategyManaged ServicesGlobal DeliveryProfessional ServicesEnterprise SoftwareOrgKonnectStart-upsBusiness Development