Avik Baishya

Avik Baishya has extensive work experience in sales and business development in the technology industry. Avik is currently the Head of Strategic Accounts - Asia at Aerospike, where they lead the Account Management Team in APAC and is responsible for managing and growing the existing install base across Large Enterprise Field Accounts. Prior to this, Avik worked as an Account Executive at Redis Labs, focusing on the Telecom and BFSI sectors in India and ASEAN.

Avik also has experience at Oracle, where they were a Cloud Sales Manager, responsible for managing the IT/ITES vertical and promoting Oracle's IaaS and PaaS offerings. Avik received the Best Performer award for two consecutive years. Before Oracle, Avik was the Head of Business Development at CloudCover, a Pune headquartered organization providing IT consulting services and specializing in public cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Earlier in their career, Avik worked at BT as a Regional Business Development Manager, overseeing Enterprise Sales and Business Development for BT Conferencing in West India. Avik also handled indirect and channel business development through Telcos within India. At InterCall, Avik held the role of Sales Manager, managing InterCall's Channel Business across India. Avik started their career at Arkadin, where they joined as a Sales Executive and grew to become a Senior Business Development Manager over three years, working in sales offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, and New Delhi.

Before entering the technology industry, Avik gained experience in the hospitality sector as a Management Trainee at The Chancery Pavilion. Overall, Avik Baishya has a proven track record in sales and business development, with a focus on technology and conferencing platforms.

Avik Baishya obtained their ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) from St. Xavier's School Durgapur, although the start year is not provided. Following this, there is no further information regarding their education until they pursued their BSC in Hotel and Hospitality Administration, the field of study, at the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition in Mumbai. The specific start and end years are not mentioned for this degree.

Subsequently, Avik Baishya pursued a Masters in Business Administration (Marketing), specializing in Sales and Marketing, from The ICFAI University, Tripura. Again, the start year is not provided, but the end year is mentioned as 2011.

In terms of additional certifications, Avik Baishya has obtained the Amazon Business Professional certification from Amazon Web Services in May 2015.