Sunil Pemmaraju

Sunil Pemmaraju

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Vice President of Sales
New York, United States

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  • Sutherland
    Vice President of Sales
    Sutherland
    Aug 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)
    Sector Head & Client Partner; IT/BPO Services Sales.
    Transform operations, drive innovation, and engineer digital across Comms, Media, Entertainment and Utilities.
  • Confidential
    Co-Founder - Entrepreneur - Advisor - Investor
    Confidential
    Jan 2020 - Current (6 years 9 months)
    Conversational Commerce, Agentic AI, Energy Transition: GTM - Strategy - Sales - Tech
  • Cognizant
    Sales Director
    Cognizant
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 3 months)
    Managed a P&L of $30+Mn in the CMT sector. Industry 4.0, ER&D, Sustainability: I manage a portfolio which consists of Tier 1 Telco, Cable, Fiber and Defense Technology Clients.
  • HCLTech
    Senior Sales Director
    HCLTech
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year 6 months)
    Managed a P&L of $30+Mn in the ME sector. Supercharging Progress for Gaming, Media, Publishing, Entertainment, Education Clients: Helping build agile, innovative, cost efficient, and effective enterprises. New Logo hunting plus managed and grew a multi million dollar portfolio.
  • Avanade
    New Logo CMT Sales Director - Direct
    Avanade
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (1 year)
    Doing "what matters" to make a genuine human impact: Strategy+Experience+Technology: Microsoft, Sitecore
  • Cognizant
    New Logo Sales Leader
    Cognizant
    Jun 2016 - Jan 2022 (5 years 8 months)
    Sales Leader in Cognizant's Communication Media and Technology industry vertical responsible for new logo acquisitions in Media, Cable, CSP, REIT, and Telco Infra space across the US. The aim is to develop new revenue streams underpinned by Cognizant's four digital battlegrounds - Data, Digital Engineering, Cloud, & IoT. Market development; creating/reestablishing partner/alliance ecosystem;

    Won marque clients in Media, CSP, and Higher Edu sectors. Sample wins: Our first multi-year multi-million managed services ITO deal in the Media segment, a multi-million outcome-based digital transformation deal in the CSP segment; customer engagement strategy and roadmap deal in the Higher Ed space; core platform test automation deal with
  • Cognizant
    New Logo Sales Leader
    Cognizant
    Jan 2012 - May 2016 (4 years 5 months)
    Sales Leader for the Telcom and Technology industry vertical. My flagship client was Telstra. I won Telstra as a new Client in late 2013 and in a short span of 30 months, sold multiple deals across Digital Services, Data & AI, Consulting, Application Development, Testing, and Program Management. I also won NBN Co as a new Client in May 2016 before my transfer to the US.

    Earlier, I also led the Sales function for Healthcare and Retail verticals where I led larger pursuits across several marquee clients. I helped open Cognizant's first Healthcare account and won a complex merchandising platform transformation program at a leading Retailer
  • Tech Mahindra
    Director - Strategic Accounts
    Tech Mahindra
    Aug 2009 - Jan 2012 (2 years 6 months)
    I had full P&L responsibility for Telstra and TEM Clients. I led large pursuits in Telstra and NBNCo.
  • Wipro Limited
    Business Development Manager - Cloud & Infrastructure Services
    Wipro Limited
    May 2007 - Jul 2009 (2 years 3 months)
    I was the Sales lead for Wipro’s strategic accounts in Banking, Telecom, and E&U verticals. I managed clients headquartered in Victoria state. The marque list included Telstra, ANZ Bank, NAB, Wesfarmers Group, and Origin Energy.
  • Nortel Networks
    VAS Network Consultant
    Nortel Networks
    Feb 2005 - May 2007 (2 years 4 months)
    I was responsible for deploying multi-vendor Value Added Services solutions across BSNL's East and South regions. Given the project needs, I transitioned from a pure engineering & network design role to program management, managing GSI partners and product vendors.
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    Systems Analyst
    Wilkerson
    Jan 2004 - Feb 2005 (1 year 2 months)
    I worked in the IT department of an SMB Retailer.
  • Wistron
    Engineer
    Wistron
    May 2003 - Dec 2003 (8 months)
    I was a Subject Matter Engineering Specialist for Standalone/Mobile devices
  • The University of Texas at El Paso
    Graduate Research Assistant
    The University of Texas at El Paso
    Sep 2000 - May 2003 (2 years 9 months)
    I was appointed as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant for the entire duration of my Graduate program. I was hired by the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Liberal Arts Department
  • Philips Lighting
    Lighting Sales Engineer
    Philips Lighting
    Oct 1999 - Jul 2000 (10 months)
    As an Enterprise Sales Rep (aka Enterprise Account Executive), I was responsible for sales, account management, market development, and channel management for Philips Lighting Electronics and Gear business unit in the state of Andhra Pradesh. I won marque accounts and met KPI in a short period of time
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    Certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy, Clean Energy
    Yale School of the Environment and Yale School of Management
    Jul 2024 - Jun 2026 (2 years)
    Financing and Deploying Clean Energy (FDCE) is an admissions-based program at Yale that trains and connects leaders to accelerate the financing and deployment of clean energy at scale.
  • The University of Texas at El Paso
    MS, Electrical Engineering
    The University of Texas at El Paso
    Jan 2000 - Jan 2003 (3 years 1 month)
    Research assistant at the Electrical Engineering Department.
  • Manipal Institute of Technology
    BS, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
    Manipal Institute of Technology
    Jan 1994 - Jan 1998 (4 years 1 month)
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    The Hindu Sr Sec
    The Hindu Sr Sec
    Jan 1992 - Jan 1994 (2 years 1 month)
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    The School KFI
    The School KFI
    Jan 1990 - Jan 1992 (2 years 1 month)
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  • Cognizant
    2019 President's Club
    Cognizant
  • Cognizant
    2016 President's Club
    Cognizant
  • Cognizant
    North America Communication Media Transformation Deal of the Year for 2020
    Cognizant
  • The Climate Reality Project
    Climate Reality Leader
    The Climate Reality Project
  • Cognizant
    Sales Excellence Award for 2019
    Cognizant
    Citation: In recognition of your outstanding contributions to the growth of the Communication, Media, & Technology Industry practice in North America
  • Wipro
    APAC Account of the Year (Telstra) - 2008-09
    Wipro
  • Cognizant
    Sales Excellence Award for 2015
    Cognizant
    Citation - In recognition of your outstanding contributions to the growth and development of Cognizant in the APAC market.
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