Sayee Challapally's Linkedin Analytics

I am currently Assistant Vice President - Partnerships & Advisor Relations at CitiusTech, leading an able team of Alliance Managers managing our relationships with our key strategic technology partners, AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, and a few others in niche areas helping accelerate growth through alliances. I was previously with Cognizant as the Google Cloud Alliance lead for North America within Cognizant’s Global Partner Ecosystem team. I was earlier the lead for the Microsoft Alliance, managing the alliance across the USA, supporting Retail Consumer Goods and also Manufacturing, Logistics, and Energy & Utilities industry verticals. Prior to that, I was in the Advisory Relations Group, with Cognizant, for over 6 years, and was responsible to establish and nurture trusted relationships with Outsourcing Advisory Firms (such as ISG, Deloitte, PwC, Pace Harmon, AlixPartners, ATKearney, WGroup, Neo Group, Everest Group, to name a few) and remain in sync with emerging firms and developments in the advisory community, working closely with both supplier relations contacts, practice and industry leads. And also to develop proactive strategies with vertical and horizontal practices designed to share and educate advisors about Cognizant’s strategy and strengths, and ensure that Cognizant is well positioned for consideration in large outsourcing transactions, and transformative deal opportunities. In an IT sales career spanning over 22+ years, I have handled several responsibilities including Direct Sales, Advisory Relations and Strategic Alliances and prior to Cognizant have also worked with reputed companies such as ITC Infotech and MindTree Consulting. I am an Engineering graduate from SJCE - University of Mysore, India.