Prasanna Tankhiwale

Prasanna Tankhiwale has more than 20 years of experience in the field of digital transformation, sales, and process control engineering. Prasanna currently holds the position of Director, Digital Transformation at Puffer-Sweiven, where they are responsible for defining strategic partnerships and go-to-market strategies for the newly formed business unit. In this role, they have achieved over a 200% increase in project pipeline through sales pipeline building strategies.

Prior to their current role, Prasanna worked at Honeywell, serving as both a Senior Territory Sales Manager and a Digital Transformation Leader. In these roles, they engaged with C-level customer contacts to drive digital transformation initiatives and executed winning sales strategies for multiple opportunities. Prasanna also managed a team of account managers and coached new hires, resulting in significant growth in the total and qualified pipeline for the region.

Prasanna's previous experience includes roles at Rockwell Automation and Aspen Technology. At Rockwell Automation, they served as a Strategic Account Director, leading key account managers in qualifying and justifying production optimization solutions. Prasanna also acted as a Customer Success Manager, managing customer accounts and relationships, and as an Application Engineer, leading production optimization projects and serving as a liaison between Sales and Operations.

At Aspen Technology, Prasanna worked as a Senior Process Control Engineer, leading and supporting advanced process control projects in the refining industry. Prasanna also designed and scoped advanced process control projects and formulated optimization solvers for customers.

Earlier in their career, Prasanna worked as a Process Control Engineer at Honeywell Process Solutions, where they delivered advanced process control projects and led revamp activities for a refinery unit.

Overall, Prasanna Tankhiwale's extensive work experience showcases their expertise in digital transformation, sales, and process control engineering, along with their ability to drive strategic partnerships, build sales pipelines, and successfully execute projects.

Prasanna Tankhiwale completed a Bachelor of Technology degree in Chemical Engineering from Nagpur University between 1997 and 2001. Later, from 2003 to 2004, they pursued a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Finally, from 2013 to 2015, Prasanna obtained a Masters of Business Administration in Executive MBA from the Texas McCombs School of Business.