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Kartik Bakshi

Kartik Bakshi

Mumbai

Summary

Regional Business Leader with 15+ years of experience driving P&L growth across Asia, managing $50M+ revenue & delivering double digit margins. Proven success in scaling businesses across consumer & enterprise industries, building high performance teams and forging partnerships with Apple, Airtel, Reliance, Amazon and Walmart. Recognized for driving market share gains & profitable expansion in competitive multi-country markets.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Regional Sales Director - South & South East Asia

Belkin
06.2025 - Current
  • Lead $50M USD in sales annually across India, SAARC & ASEAN; manage 25+-member regional sales team including 8 country managers
  • Delivered 31% GP and 14% IOP in FY 25; secured $3M USD new accounts including Erajaya (Indonesia) & Apple (Ministry of Education, Thailand)
  • In Q1 achieved 111.47% in NS & 124.23% in GOP versus budget (In comparison APEA achieved 69% & 63% respectively)


Regional Sales Director - SAARC & Indochina

Belkin
10.2023 - 05.2025
  • Grew GS by over 30% from $ 34M USD to $ 45M+ USD in 18 months
  • Exceeded FY 2024/25 budgets: NS -101.64% NS & GOP 95.13% vs. APEA region - 83.60% & 76.53% respectively
  • Worked efficiently across all cross functional teams - Supply/Logistics, forecast, finance, Marketing & PM divisions to streamline & deliver goals
  • Build individual GTM strategies to increase sales & partnerships especially in India, Vietnam, Malaysia & Philippines


Country Manager - India & SAARC

Belkin
07.2015 - 10.2023
  • Scaled India GS from $1.5M to $12M+ while maintaining over 30% GP
  • Expanded distribution & customer support points via Rashi Peripherals (60+ branches across different cities)
  • Increased market share from less than 1% to over 10%
  • Built partnerships with Reliance, Tata, Amazon, AWS, Walmart among others.
  • Belkin Surge Business #1 in India with 36% share, outperforming Honeywell, APC & Phillips

Country Manager - India & SAARC

Linksys (Part of Belkin & Foxconn)
04.2018 - 03.2021
  • During my tenure at Belkin and leading their sales for India & SAARC our company merged with Linksys to build our networking & enterprise/SMB business under the foxconn umbrella
  • In my 2 years of the leading business we grew our sales revenue from $400,000 USD to $3M USD through Airtel premium fibre, DLF & ACT Fibernet partnerships


Education

Bachelor of Science - Finance

Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
05-2010

Skills

  • P&L Management
  • Go to Market Strategy
  • Revenue & Profit growth
  • Cross Country Leadership
  • Business Development & Negotiations
  • Strategic Planning & Leadership
  • Team development
  • Distribution Strategies

Accomplishments

  • Belkin Asia Pacific - Best Commercial Performer 2016
  • Foxconn Interconnect Technology & McKinsey - Transformation Behavior Role Model
  • Exhibit Publishing - Top 100 Leaders of Tech in India - 2019, 2020, 2025

Timeline

Regional Sales Director - South & South East Asia

Belkin
06.2025 - Current

Regional Sales Director - SAARC & Indochina

Belkin
10.2023 - 05.2025

Country Manager - India & SAARC

Linksys (Part of Belkin & Foxconn)
04.2018 - 03.2021

Country Manager - India & SAARC

Belkin
07.2015 - 10.2023

Bachelor of Science - Finance

Central Michigan University

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