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Education
Skills
Languages
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Prasun Kulshrestha

Prasun Kulshrestha

National Business Manager
225, Tulip Tower , SKA Metroville, Greater Noida

Summary

Objective:

With my rigorous thinking â boundless curiosity, I define the levels b standards that exceed expectations, Currency ore ideas, Thrive on imagination â passion, Always looking for a scope for demonstration, For a positive b bigger outlook ,Hove fun attitude in everything, Bottom line rises with organization, A Learner for life.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Country General Manager / Managing Director

Fischer Connectors I Pvt Ltd
08.2023 - Current
  • Managing overall India operations as Managing Director of company.
  • Responsible for Demand creation, Production, Sourcing of material & Sales .
  • Developing key Customers and ensuring YoY Growth , Strategy improvement & revenue increase across India.
  • Enabling team structure, motivating & managing to optimize overall results.
  • Result oriented strategy & approach to Position Fischer in key projects & win projects.
  • Emphasize in building customer trust, branding & feedback system.
  • Mapping business, create strategy, align resources & execute the plan. Competition analysis & forecast for balanced equation.
  • Managing distribution network & aligning reviews with distributor & support to grow .
  • Forecasting business , Set Dynamic sales Plan & Strategy.

Sales Manager (North & South India)

TE Connectivity India Pvt Ltd
03.2022 - Current

My responsibility in TE Connectivity - Appliance Division is focused on appliance market in North and South India. As an account manager, i am responsible for following :

  • To increase business share in accounts in region by increasing sales.
  • To do business development in appliance customers , increase demand creation, work out pricing and negotiate to win business.
  • To analyze technical issues at front end, coordinate and support customers to rectify the problem.
  • To do forecast, work with marketing and ensure smooth supply chain.
  • To provide technical training to distributors, customers periodically.
  • Increase demand creation pipeline working directly / indirectly with customer or distributors.

Technical Sales Engineer

Vicor Inc
02.2015 - 03.2022
  • I was managing operations of North ,West & East India Business as Regions for direct customers along with managing distribution while focusing on few key segments including Automotive, Electric vehicles, Drones, Railways, Telecom etc. segments.
  • I took Electric vehicles segment as an opportunity to develop for Vicor & establish a business of 800 K USD in 2018 & a pipeline of opportunity of 5 MN USD for 2020.
  • I was responsible to provide customer support in terms of technical training, technical support, part suggest, customer board fault finding, customer assistance to Power supply.
  • To distributors, Guiding Distributors with various new segments , support them by providing desired technical or commercial information and enable them.
  • I was also responsible to manage distributors to by supporting them with strategic pricing to work on overall BOM cost.
  • I also managed Distribution sales .

Technical Engineer

Micrel Inc
07.2012 - 01.2015

With the vital responsibility to address application support for Micrel products in North, West & East part of geographic locations in India, I also had additional responsibility to manage sales distribution plus direct. Few of my responsibilities are listed as below.

  • Supported on BLDC based solutions in region focused on Commercial ceiling fans.
  • Demand creation support for analog to Ethernet to BLDC solutions to RF.
  • Worked on requirements of RF Key lock Unlock for automotive vehicles.
  • Training distributors, Quarterly Technical training to Distributor FAE, Monthly FAE review along with supporting with required support, sample support, design support to distributors / customers.
  • Regional Distributor sales training, Business review and driving numbers, forecast management with marketing.
  • Increase demand creation in region direct / indirect, develop accounts, increase YoY $ value .
  • To Provide technical support to all customers power / RF / Analog / any that Micrel product line would had required to assist customers.

Sr. Field Application Engineer (Power)

Arrow Electronics I Pvt Ltd
02.2010 - 06.2012
  • Fully responsible to handle assigned territory of North-East India including all the customers, ANALOG & POWER components.
  • Dedicated Application engineer for TI PICOLO based HF inverter for North.
  • Retain and growth of electronic components in industry for all range of components.
  • Analyzing business potential, conceptualizing & executing strategies for new business development.
  • Identifying and developing new streams for revenue growth and maintaining relationships with customers to achieve repeat as well as referral business.
  • Involved in strategic marketing initiatives for product promotion and sales.
  • Evolving market segmentation & penetration strategies to achieve targets both pre and post sales.
  • On board design support for Lighting, Lighting drivers, SMPS power supplies, Inverters.
  • I managed product line as FAE for products from Infineon, IR & Cree.
  • I had managed Home appliances market division for North India to manage products for ADI, IR & Infineon along with various principle connectors.

Sr. Technical Engineer

Syratron Marketing India Pvt. Ltd
11.2008 - 02.2010
  • I was responsible to generate demand creation of various product lines as Hittite, Microsemi & Glenair connectors.
  • Major focus was on Defense Space & Defense customers where I was responsible to generate opportunities for various potential customers for all the three above product lines.
  • With the Support for all India Space & defense customers, supporting Space grade Business for Hittite microwave was the biggest achievement which took Hittite from 670 K USD annual Biz to around 1.9Mn sustainable biz annually.
  • To generate demand creation, demonstrate products and get approve RF parts in Government Labs like ISRO, DLRL, DRDO, ARDE etc.

Design Engineer (Power Supply)

Spectra Innovations I Pvt Ltd
01.2005 - 10.2008
  • I worked at Spectra innovations as an Design Engineer for Power Integration Product Line.
  • I was responsible to design, develop & provide power solutions for various commercial applications. I mainly designed power supplies for TV, STB, LED lighting etc which were usually from 0.5Watts to 310 Watts .
  • I used Buck, boost & Flyback topologies while working on these design .
  • Job profile included to support design requirement for all India customer base & develop designs required by customer per specifications.

Education

Engineering Diploma in E&C - Electronics Engineering

Shri Datta Meghe Polytechnic

Skills

Technical Highlights :

  • Hands on experience on Analog , power electronics using various power supply topologies like flyback or buck or buck boost

  • Core understanding of SMPS topologies, PCB design in ORCAD, product safety features testing, Analog designs, EMI & EMC safety features, LED power supply driver design & development

  • Hands on experience on 800VA Power inverter, power supplies based on power integration

  • In detail technical understanding of automotive, LED lighting & power supply related to all applications including defense

  • Home Appliances Power supply designs including BLOC fans, washing machine power supply, & EMI regulations, Hand grinders PSU, Consumer applications

  • In detail understanding of topologies, designed various power supplies for various applications, worked for Power integration based solutions for various applications as FAE in Pan India

Commercial Highlights :

  • Self Motivated

  • Result oriented

  • Enthusiast Strong Network in India's Electronics Industry

  • Strong communication skills

  • Dynamic Strategy Oriented

Languages

  • Hindi, English, Marathi
  • Hobbies

    • Enthusiastic Astrologer, Book Author & Social Worker.

    Additional Information

    • SDMP - Nagpur , Won best project of the year award with various other recognition and awards for same projects in intercollege project competitions as well

    Accomplishments

    • Sep - 2015 Designing Power Inverters for Solar and Wind Applications
    • Written White paper Paper for Electro pages Http://www.electropages.com/2015/09/designing-power- inverters-solar-wind-applications/
    • Written Online White paper on how to design step by step white paper and won 100$ award from the SMPS site
    • April - 2005 Article on Automatic Night Lamp in Electronics for you Magazine
    • Written a Fiction English book title "Collude".

    US Visa Status

    US Visa Status

    B1/B2 USA Visa valid till 2027 year.

    References

    References: Ref Can be arranged upon request.

    Timeline

    Country General Manager / Managing Director

    Fischer Connectors I Pvt Ltd
    08.2023 - Current

    Sales Manager (North & South India)

    TE Connectivity India Pvt Ltd
    03.2022 - Current

    Technical Sales Engineer

    Vicor Inc
    02.2015 - 03.2022

    Technical Engineer

    Micrel Inc
    07.2012 - 01.2015

    Sr. Field Application Engineer (Power)

    Arrow Electronics I Pvt Ltd
    02.2010 - 06.2012

    Sr. Technical Engineer

    Syratron Marketing India Pvt. Ltd
    11.2008 - 02.2010

    Design Engineer (Power Supply)

    Spectra Innovations I Pvt Ltd
    01.2005 - 10.2008

    Engineering Diploma in E&C - Electronics Engineering

    Shri Datta Meghe Polytechnic
    Prasun KulshresthaNational Business Manager