Ravindra Soni

About Ravindra Soni

Ravindra, Ravi as he is popularly known is a courageous, resilient people and business leader. He has a proven ability in driving effective and influencing conversations with senior-level leaders while nurturing trusted relationships across internal functions and customer organizations. He adapts his leadership style in highly complex operating environments, knowing when to lead from the front and when to guide and support the broader team. His excellent communication and people skills coupled with the courage to take bold steps, as necessary, for the betterment of the business and people have established him as a leader who is looked up to for courage and guidance in crisis, and to overcome challenges. Ravi coaches and grooms his team and others who have in turn significantly contributed to company success while realizing their career aspirations. He has nurtured an inclusive, value-centric, and high-performing culture that attracts and retains a multi-ethnic set of talent across both India and the Middle East. He brings a unique blend of working in very small / start-up cos to globally largest cos, engaging very small customers to some of the biggest brands globally. Managing very large partners, system integrators, and cloud providers to smaller ones as per the business needs. This penchant of driving business growth through technology has made him a trusted advisor to C-suite on driving transformation as the market transitions to Cloud, and Edge Computing. He is also responsible for driving the services\' business (success and renewal) and works closely with the customer experience organization, delivering exceptional value to the customers. During his 21+ years of career, He has earned a reputation for driving increasingly profitable growth and exceptional levels of cross-functional teams and executive engagement. He has developed and implemented innovative and scalable best practices which serve as the blueprint for rapid adoption across geographies to maximize customer value realization. His most recent and enriching experience has been steering the engagement with a customer going through the largest and most complex Telecom merger globally. This engagement went through phases of extreme uncertainty and ambiguity; wherein he converted hopeless and at times hostile situations into full of hope and opportunity, leading the team to thrive in this environment and consistently winning global reference business. Prior to Cisco, He was Alcatel-Lucent, LinkQuest Telecom and others

Experience

1. Regional Sales Director - Enterprise Networking, India & Saarc

   Cisco

   Apr 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   I lead the Architecture Sales for Enterprise Networking portfolio across all our segments.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), INSTRUMENTATION