Maneesh Jaikrishna – Vice President, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern & Southern Africa SITA
He brings 20+ years of leadership experience in building, energising & leading multi-functional teams, developing markets, implementing change & digital transformation. He believes synthesis of people leadership & technology with customer centricity & strategy execution drives success and thrives on creating value & enhancing customer experience while challenging status quo.
Responsible for Indian Subcontinent, Dubai, Eastern & Southern Africa in areas of sales, operations, delivery, customer satisfaction, BD & account management, he heads professionals catering to airport, airline & govt. sectors.
As chief architect behind SITA’s INDIA strategy, he successfully transformed India as SITA’s highest performing region with double digit CAGR for 10+ years consistently with highest levels of customer loyalty & employee engagement, placing India at SITA’s core as a top market & also a factory for offshore development & global competencies. He now focuses on architecting SITA’s AFRICA strategy while strengthening ME & subcontinent business.
He is the global Sales Profession lead; has received many global awards i.e President CLUB, Best – performing Region, Sales territory, Sales Person, most challenging business, demonstrating org core values etc. He has successively been selected for retention plans & was fully sponsored for IMD EMBA.
Academics in India & Europe, responsibilities & teams of various nationalities in 3 continents & global customers, makes him a global citizen having appreciation of plurality of business environments. A good trend & talent spotter, he learns quickly from people, ideas & events. He also serves on Boards of SITA India and of IIM, Shillong.
An Indian national, he holds a 1st class 1st B.E. (Hons.) deg. in Electronics & Telecom. from Mumbai University. He has accomplished his EMBA degree program from IMD, Switzerland with Outstanding grades & Thesis Distinction. Dubai based, he is married with 2 sons & enjoys travelling, music & reading.
