Darshan Appayanna
Explorer, Change Agent, Digital Strategist , CIO, CISO, Chief Knowledge Officer, Solution Sales
- Role
- Technology Strategist at Microsoft
- Location
- Bengaluru, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Darshan Appayanna
Astute consulting professional with 24 years of global experience in sales, business strategy, technology adoption, go to market solutions & change agent leveraging digital, mobility, cloud and security technologies in Retail, HiTech and Aerospace verticals. Technology advisor to Board in strategizing, building & adopting cutting edge solutions relevant to customers & building IP. Evangelized operational frameworks and platforms that improve productivity and reduced time to market & bring outside-in perspectives Evangelized and built next generation digital ready IT infrastructure and Business systems from the ground up for Happiest Minds, 100% virtualized, leveraging cutting edge security technologies like anomaly detection, RPA based Chatbots, Unified Enterprise workflow management platform, etc. Responsible for building operational systems in a digital native company that showcases cutting edge Cognitive & RPA technologies that helped generate potential revenues of 6 MUSD and saved 4MUSD in operational costs Evangelized and implemented a cutting-edge knowledge engagement solution for a digital native company that helped in saving 2MUSD in productivity improvements Built and owned P&L for a new practice for a Seattle based firm with revenues of 15MUSD with 200 people. Program managed large retail SKU transformation project for a US based luxury retailer. Defined a unified compliance and information security framework for digital native company Industry recognized award-winning professional recognized for Sales growth, Security Solutioning, Technology architecture innovation & innovative business solutions. Have led new customer engagement and acquisition initiatives Thrive in taking new challenges and paths least travelled. An enlightened entrepreneur having run my own technology company. Mentoring young startups in product development and positioning, sales strategy and defining technology roadmap. Associated with Microsoft Ventures and iSpirt.
Experience
Technology Strategist
Feb 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Drive business transformation for customers. Accelerate adoption of technology to drive business efficiency and agility. Virtual CIO to customers. Help customers in their Digital Transformation Journey and ensure they choose the right technology platform and services. Responsible for customer cloud adoption experience from conceptualization to deployment and adoption across Azure Infra/Data/Application/Security products, Dynamics, Modern work and Power Platforms and drive a ONE Microsoft view for and to the customer Being a trusted advisor to technology leaders. Co-create technology roadmaps to drive business outcomes having delivered 120% growth in cloud adoption by my customers and 200% growth in the security solutions bought by my customers.
Education
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Bachelor's, Engineering
1990 — 1994
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