K. Venkataraj, Deputy Director-General of SAEINDIA, fondly known as Venky, is an accomplished IT Sales & Business Development Professional with 29 years of experience. He has started his career as a CAD/CAM technical engineer and moved on to PLM Sales Professional in NIIT, TCS, and IBM. He has served the Americas & Middle East markets for almost a decade in the different territory, business development profiles for IBM. During his IBM tenure, he has built a relationship with BlackBerry, Waldorf Astoria, Saud Bhawan Group, Ashok Leyland, HAL, ADA, and other leading automotive, aerospace, IT giants.Venky has been associated with SAEINDIA as a volunteer for 12 years, before moving into SAEINDIA as Dy Director General in September 2016. In the current role, Dy. Director-General, he works with leading mobility organizations in India, both auto and aero, to implement the strategies developed by SAEINDIA’s Managing Committee, the top decision-making body of the society. He is a proactive leader and planner with expertise in strategic planning, market plan execution, account management, and pre-sales efforts with skills in staffing and targeted marketing.
