Akash Sonawane

Akash Sonawane has a diverse work experience spanning several industries. Akash currently serves as the Pre-Sales Engineering Manager at Decisions, where their responsibilities include requirements gathering, scoping, and conducting product demos with prospective clients. Prior to this, they worked as a Sales Engineer at Decisions, where they were responsible for translating requirements into proofs-of-concepts and conducting product demos.

Before joining Decisions, Akash worked as an Enterprise Sales and Account Manager at ValueLabs, catering to the digital needs of organizations in the Canada market. Akash'srole involved customer acquisition and support, focusing on process automation, cloud services, BI & analytics, UI/UX, and data technology.

Akash also gained experience at Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, where they served as an Executive Member of the Operations Club. Akash'sresponsibilities included designing and organizing college events related to operations and facilitating institute-corporate alliances.

Additionally, Akash has held positions at Halma plc as a Summer Intern, where they were involved in the identification and valuation of potential target companies. Akash also performed financial statements analysis for target companies. Akash served as an Executive in Production & Technical Services at Hikal Ltd, where they worked as a process engineer in crop protection chemicals manufacturing, focusing on scale-up and scale-down, energy conservation, and quality assurance.

Furthermore, Akash gained experience as a summer intern at Texol Engg. Pvt. Ltd., where they studied pilot plants and piping & instrumentation diagrams, and at Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. as a winter intern.

Overall, Akash Sonawane possesses a strong background in pre-sales engineering, sales, customer support, and operations, with expertise in automation, technology consulting, and chemical manufacturing.

Akash Sonawane completed their Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Petrochemical Engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2014. Prior to that, they completed their 12th Science with a focus on Computer Science at Kendriya Vidyalaya in 2009-2010. Following their undergraduate studies, they pursued a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong from 2016 to 2018. Additionally, they obtained a certification in Finance and Banking Fundamentals (India) from Finitiatives Learning India Pvt Ltd, although the specific time of obtaining this certification is not provided.