Vayana is deeply committed to rapid growth enabled by our business value to customers and partners across all global geographies. This role would require streamlining, building and leading a world class sales and business development organization and process, focused on identifying customer opportunities and positioning Vayana to win and execute on those opportunities. It also involves bringing to market, collaborative strategic partnerships that expand our solutions to customers while ensuring distribution into the global market. Additionally a senior and seasoned leader in this role would help realize a very close working partnership with our customer’s senior executives to align our solutions to increase revenues and reduce costs for our customers. With this ambitious goal in mind, we have great pleasure in naming Chanakya Semlani (CK) to the role of Global Head of Sales & Business Development, for SolutionNET’s BFSI Products and Vayana Services, based out of Mumbai, India.

CK is an accomplished international executive with more than 18 years of sales and business development experience with mature and start-up organizations. He has spent a significant portion of his career in the financial services and payments sector. He brings a unique knowledge of where the markets are headed and how our solutions could be best leveraged to provide competitive advantage to our customers.

Recently CK was the principal at Blue Ocean Ventures providing outsourced business development consulting to several early and growth stage companies. He also held a senior role at Western Union where he was responsible for Strategic Alliances and Alternate Channels in the U.S. market. Prior to that, he was part of the Executive Management teams that successfully built Stock Smart (a Sevin Rosen Ventures backed company) and Laptop Lane (now part of the Regus Group) with significant value creation for all stakeholders. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business and a Masters in International Business.

Please join me in welcoming CK to Vayana’s Leadership and in charting our growth journey.