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PRAVEEN CHERIAN

CEO-Global Services Business

A proven senior executive and a strong strategic thinker, Praveen has close to three decades of experience in handling high-growth teams and business units across multiple industries. He comes with a diverse experience ranging from leading large business units to sales, service delivery, marketing & strategy and business operations with local and international exposure.

In STL he has been successful in expanding STL Global Service’s footprint to the UK , strengthening STL’s partnership in the private telco segment and establishing Managed Services as a practice spanning Security, Cloud and Data Centres. Prior to joining STL, he headed the Infrastructure Services business for IBM across India/South Asia region. He has performed various other roles, including holding the position of the CEO of Network Solutions, Director and Head – Cloud Services Business and Wireless e-business Practice Leader for the Asia Pacific region. He is an Engineer in Electronics and Communications with an MBA in Sales and Marketing. He has completed Executive Leadership Programme from Cornell University and Sales Leadership Programme at INSEAD. He has served on the Board of two IT Services companies in India.