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Amit Sharma
Senior enterprise sales leader · Cybersecurity, cloud and AI · UK-based
Amit Sharma has spent more than 28 years leading enterprise sales teams and personally closing large, strategic deals across cybersecurity, cloud and AI. As a hands-on, player-coach leader, Amit builds and coaches high-performing teams while staying close to customers and major opportunities.
Amit has a consistent record of exceeding multi-million revenue targets, including 1.5x target and 3x portfolio growth, and of owning regional revenue and go-to-market across enterprise, partner and reseller channels.
As executive sponsor on complex, multi-million deals, Amit builds trusted relationships with CIOs, CISOs and CTOs and moves easily between business and technical conversations. That experience spans channel partners, resellers and strategic alliances including Dell and Microsoft co-sell, and security expertise covering threat detection, OT and IoT, and managed security.
Innoligo Ltd is a member of the Dell Expert Network.
Starline News puts that experience to work for smaller businesses: the same questions a CIO would ask, answered in plain English.
- 28+years in enterprise technology sales
- 1.5xrevenue target delivered
- 3xportfolio growth
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