Meet the SAP India Leadership Team

Deb Deep Sengupta

Vice President – Enterprise Sales, SAP India

Deb Deep Sengupta is the Vice President – Enterprise Sales for SAP India. In his current role, Deep leads the Discrete Industries which includes Automotive, EC&O, High Tech and IM&C, along with Telecom, Retail & Wholesale, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Life Science and CPG industries. Deep will continue to be responsible for Bangladesh sub-continent.

Deep has been with SAP for more than ten years and has been heading various roles in enterprise sales, business development etc. Under Deep’s leadership, SAP has clocked highest growth globally in the vibrant and highly competitive SME & Channel Business, establishing SAP’s leadership in SME business in the Indian Subcontinent.

Deep has more than 17 years of experience in the IT sector and has worked in leadership positions in HP and IBM, prior to SAP. He has done Executive Management Program from INSEAD and has an engineering degree.

Mathew Thomas

Vice President – Strategic Industries, SAP India

Mathew Thomas is the Vice President - Strategic Industries at SAP India. His role encompasses Public Utilities, Government (State, Central, Defense,) and Banking and Financial Services Industry. In his current capacity, Mathew is responsible for all market-facing activities across this portfolio. He reports to Suprakash Chaudhuri, Managing Director of SAP India.

Prior to this role, Mathew spearheaded the Alliances & Partner Ecosystem team at SAP India and was involved in setting up and managing the team from inception

With over 18 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, Mathew has held various senior positions at top IT companies, including Oracle and Wipro Infotech.

As a part of his previous assignments, Mathew has had experience in setting up and leading new initiatives, which have been growth drivers for the organizations.

Mathew holds a degree in Mechanical engineering from the University of Madras. His interests include fitness and working with socially underprivileged sections of society.

Priyadarshi Mohapatra

Vice President – Ecosystem, Channels & General Business SAP Indian subcontinent

Priyadarshi Mohapatra is Vice President, Ecosystem, Channels and General Business, SAP Indian subcontinent. As the Head of Ecosystem & Channels he is responsible for creating a robust partner organisation and an effective partner sales force that will drive the next phase of growth for Sap India. As the Head of General Business, he has additional responsibilty of growing profitably SAP’s market share in the highly competative SME segment.

A veteran with 15 years of industry experience, he has been associated with SAP for almost five years now. In the past Priyadarshi has held leadership role for Emerging Business for SAP in India, Bangladesh and Srilanks and has been the Regional Director for SME Sales. He has been widely recognised as a top performing sales leader and has consistently been a top talent. He has contributed his thoughts in various forums based on his deep understanding of leveraging the partner ecosystem for growing business – especially in the SME segment.

In his current capacity as leader of Ecosystem and Channels, Priyadarshi has built a very strong GTM covering the various paths to market including Alliances, Distribution, Reselling and Strategic channel initiatives such as OEM and BPO – as routes to market. In his capacity as the leader of General Business he heads the fastest growing segment in SAP India – SME. Under his leadership this segment in the last 24 months, has grown at an enviable rate to become one of the largest sales LOBs in SAP India.

Prior to joining SAP, Priyadarshi started the retail practice for Sun Microsysetms in India and made it the most successful new practice in two years time. In his entrepreneurial stint, he Co-founded, Oyztrebay, a VC funded jewellery chain that became the second largest jewellery retail chain in India.

Priyadarshi obtained a Chemical Engineering degree from NIT Rourkela and has done his post graduation in management from XIMB.

Maneesh Sharma

Head-Business User & Platform group
SAP India

Maneesh Sharma is Head – Business Analytics & Technology, SAP India. He is responsible for driving the growth strategy and operations of SAP Business Analytics suite of products comprising of Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management, Data warehousing, In-Memory Computing and Governance, Risk & Compliance solutions in India. He also leads the SAP NetWeaver technology platform group that helps customers accelerate business innovation and efficiency through strategic IT solutions.

With over 14 years of experience, Maneesh has an impressive track record of establishing, nurturing and growing the SAP NetWeaver Technology & Applications Business portfolio. In his previous role at SAP, he was also responsible for managing business relationship with premier strategic customers of SAP.

Maneesh holds a Management degree from IIM Bangalore and has done his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from REC Surat.

Rajesh Kumar

Head of Marketing, Indian Subcontinent

Rajesh Kumar is the Head of Marketing for SAP India. In this role, he is responsible for developing and implementing strategies for SAP to establish its leadership as the trusted enterprise application provider to India Inc.

Rajesh joined SAP in 2010 and currently leads SAP’s go to market strategy and execution across industries, Line of Business, Business Analytics and Technology, SME, Channels, On Demand portfolio, Services and Integrated Marketing Communications.

Prior to joining SAP, Rajesh was associated with Microsoft India for 9 years, in various leadership roles. An industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in sales & marketing across technology, internet, consumer goods and industrial machinery, Rajesh has been involved with various organizations, including Perfetti, HCL & Seagram.

Rajesh holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering (1988) from NIT Kurukshetra, and a Masters degree in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (1994).

Rajamani Srinivasan

Vice-President, Sales, SAP India

Rajamani Srinivasan is the Vice President-Sales and Head of Applications Business, SAP Indian Subcontinent. He is accountable for driving business strategy as well as accelerating profitable revenue growth in the software and services segment across the subcontinent, with a specific focus on the Applications Business. Under his leadership, he is responsible to articulate business value of SAP solutions to prospects and customers across industries, verticals and organizations and generate Revenue for SAP India through Key initiatives. He is specifically tasked now to expand the addressable market for SAP India for the Business Suite on HANA Solution.

Rajamani brings with him more than 23 years of experience, as a trusted IT advisor to many large organisations and a speaker in industry and global events. He joined SAP in 2007 and has played a critical role in significantly contributing and driving the company’s revenues and growth in the region. He has worked in Manufacturing, Financial Services, Consumer Products, International Trading and IT Industries, prior to joining SAP. He has also worked across multiple countries Asia Pacific.

Previously, Rajamani held senior positions at Oracle, Ramco systems, Coca-cola India, Watanmal Trading, India Cements Capital & Finance and Kunal Engineering.

Rajamani holds a ACA (Associate Chartered Accountant) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and a ICWA from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI). He enjoys writing poetry in his native language and enjoys reading about World History & civilizations, well-researched Management topics in HBR and about different World Religions. He derives inspirations from yoga and spirituality and is a cricket fan. He is part of the Organising committee for SAP sponsored Cricket tournaments and also plays cricket whenever time permits.