About

Akshay Murthy is an accomplished sales professional with over 17 years of experience in penetrating new territories, acquiring new customers, and managing large accounts for IT/Telecom companies in India/APAC. Currently serving as the Regional Sales Director at Salesforce, Akshay is responsible for driving sales for the enterprise customers of the company. In this role, he assists customers in executing their cross-channel marketing strategies, enhancing their customer engagement, and improving sales productivity. Akshay's key areas of focus include CRM, digital marketing, and sales transformation. He specializes in new business development, account management, C-suite relationship management, revenue forecasting, product and services sales, channel management, and geographical expansion. Prior to joining Salesforce, Akshay held senior positions at Oracle and IBM, where he managed sales of customer experience cloud portfolio for large enterprise customers across South India. He also handled large enterprise customers across banking, IT/ITeS, CPG/e-commerce, healthcare, and education sectors at IBM and ensured overall client satisfaction from multiple engagements involving IBM products and services. Akshay holds an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management and a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications from RV College of Engineering. He completed his high school education from St. Joseph's Boys High School. Akshay's tech stack includes Salesforce, and he has relevant experience of 17.95 years.