Nitish Anand

Background

About Nitish Anand

With over 19 years of experience in multiple industries including Tech, Public Sector, Healthcare, and Education, Nitish has had the privilege of serving in various roles in Finance, Security, Engineering, Technical Pre-Sales, and Business Development. In his current role at Microsoft Industry and Partner Sales (IPS) organisation, Nitish manages the relationship with GSI WW Alliance, reporting to the GM of Commercial Partner teams, and helps create mindshare, innovation, and growth on MS platforms. Acts as the voice of MS partners, and internal advocate by providing insights, feedback, and challenges from the partner to internal teams (sales, product, and engineering). Nitish manages and nurtures C-suite relationship to help drive GTM, pipeline generation, sales strategy, digital transformation, and technical roadmap in partnership with the regional Partner Development Managers through the "Sell-With" and ‘Build-With’ stages of the Partner Lifecycle. He has proven experience of designing and executing Customer and Partner engagement methodologies and Sales Playbooks including MCEM. Nitish holds a MS in Advance Computer Science from the University of London, Bachelors in Computing from BIT Mesra, Management Diploma from RCUK (ILM London), and Executive Leadership principles from Harvard. He is also certified in Cloud Solutions such as MS Azure, AI tech stack, Sales Co-Pilot, and VMware vSphere technologies. Specialities: Account planning and Management, IP-Cosell, Go-to-Market (GTM), Business Planning, C Suite relation management, and Sales Execution.