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Karthikeyan Veerappan

Karthikeyan Veerappan

Bengaluru

Summary

Demonstrated leadership in driving Cyber Defense business grown from 40M to 65M USD at Wipro Limited. Excelled in developing MDR offerings, showcasing expertise in Cyber Defense Business Development and strong client engagement. Achieved over 100% business target consistently with >12% annual growth.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

MDR Business Leader

Wipro Limited
04.2020 - Current
  • Portfolios: MDR Offerings, Go-To-Market (GTM), Partnership & Alliances, Competency, Delivery globally
  • Technologies: NG SIEM, Unified XDR/MDR Platforms, Threat Intelligence, EDR, NDR, XDR, SOAR, BAS
  • Business Growth: FY21 to FY25 (40M to 65M USD)

Global Partnership & Alliances

Wipro Limited
03.2019 - 03.2020

Driven strategic alliances for Cybersecurity business

Total Outsourcing & Large Deals

Wipro Limited
06.2014 - 03.2019

Driven large integrated and standalone cybersecurity proposals with an annual pipeline in the range of 300 to 500M TCV.

Cyber Sales BDM

Wipro Limited
10.2012 - 06.2014

Driven Sales for 2 strategic accounts and 6 hunting accounts and achieved >100% target.

SOC Program Lead

Wipro Limited
04.2008 - 09.2012

Driven 8M ACV SOC Program for 40B enterprise, driven capabilities across SIEM, TVM, NIDS, FIM, FCA, NCA, HIPS technologies including transformation and managed services.

Practice Lead

Wipro Limited
05.2005 - 03.2008

Supported Practice in building proposals, executing consulting & SI projects, setting up SOC shared model and labs.

Security Specialist

Microland Limited
02.2004 - 04.2005

Performed security management activities across SIEM, HIPS, NIPS, FW technologies in Shared SOC setup

Technical Support Engineer

Unity Electro Systems Pvt Ltd
03.2000 - 02.2004

Performed technical support in implementing and managing networking and security technologies using Cisco devices and RedHat Linux environments.

Education

B.E - Mechanical

Bharathiar University
Coimbatore, India
04.1999

Skills

    • Cyber Defense Business Development
    • Cyber Defense Offerings Development and GTM
      • Client presentation & engagement
      • Practice Competency & Delivery Governance

Accomplishments

Independently driven and successfully closed multiple 5 to 15M TCV proposals.


Developed modern Cyber Defense Competency platform and framework to sustain and manage cyber skillset.


Established innovative attack agnostic analysis (A3) framework for threat detection & response service delivery.

Timeline

MDR Business Leader

Wipro Limited
04.2020 - Current

Global Partnership & Alliances

Wipro Limited
03.2019 - 03.2020

Total Outsourcing & Large Deals

Wipro Limited
06.2014 - 03.2019

Cyber Sales BDM

Wipro Limited
10.2012 - 06.2014

SOC Program Lead

Wipro Limited
04.2008 - 09.2012

Practice Lead

Wipro Limited
05.2005 - 03.2008

Security Specialist

Microland Limited
02.2004 - 04.2005

Technical Support Engineer

Unity Electro Systems Pvt Ltd
03.2000 - 02.2004

B.E - Mechanical

Bharathiar University
Karthikeyan Veerappan