Manikandan Bala

About Manikandan Bala

Seasoned C- Level tech executive, board & EM member, industry thought leader on driving business growth leveraging disruptive technologies, including AI, social media platforms. Uniquely skilled, proven, trusted senior leader driving best in class business growth - with exceptional cross business functional skills having vast Healthcare & IT industry experience, gained through working for companies including GE, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, Elekta, Dell and Synthes Career includes progressively increasing leadership roles in Executive Management, Sales & Marketing, Service, Strategy, and P&L Management Mani brings a strong customer-centric and outside-in perspective to both business strategy and execution. Has successfully built new businesses and entered new markets, led and managed cross-cultural teams and takes an active role in mentoring next-gen leaders. • Passionate about building empowered teams that value innovation and excellence • Results oriented with strong leadership, process improvement and problem solving capabilities • Ability to attract, develop, and retain high performing teams. • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with global, diverse and cross functional organizations Specialties: Leader of change, Quality - Six Sigma & Business Process Re-engineering, Mergers & Integration, Managing Start-ups, Inclusive Team Builder, and Effective Communicator and Decision Maker.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President, Region Timea (Turkey, India, Middle East & Africa)

   Elekta

   May 2024 — Present

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  Management

  1997 — 1998

• Harvard Business School Executive Education

  Organisational Development

  2019 — 2020

• Shrine Vailankanni SVSS Chennai

  XII CBSE

  1980 — 1984

• Shivaji University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

  1984 — 1988