Poonacha has an established track record as an entrepreneur leader. He has over 17 years of experience in Global Sales, Business Development, Operations Management, Strategic Planning and Technology Design. Throughout his career, Poonacha was heavily involved in senior leadership positions in global sales & business development with Fortune 100 companies.

 

Poonacha had been the Vice President/General Manager of Visonael Corporation (Palo Alto, CA), and he had experiences overseeing all Worldwide Sales, Professional Services and Operations. During his tenure he was able to successfully grow the revenue of the company and positioned the product portfolio from the enterprise to the services provider market. Prior to his career at Visonael, he was the principal at Dimension Enterprises - a leading Internet Data Center services startup in the Washington DC area, which was then acquired by Nortel Networks in 2000. He continued as Vice President of Services in the Nortel’s Global Professional Services division.

 

Poonacha was also Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Sasken Communications Technologies, whereby he built strategic relationships within the telecom/technology industry - Semiconductor, Handset OEMs , Network Equipment Vendors and ODMs. He had helped the company closed multi-million dollar IP, product & services transactions during his tenure at Sasken. Poonacha was a Senior Director at Motorola and was responsible for global business development for Seamless Mobility and Wireless Broadband services as well as managing the Joint Ventures with Wipro (WMNetServ) and TechMahindra (CanvasM). Poonacha had also worked for Iridium LLC & Sprint, in various leadership roles in his early days.

 

Poonacha holds an MBA from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the B.M.S. College of Engineering in Bangalore, India.

 

Currently, he is the CEO of ABO Ventures, a company that focuses on sales and marketing professional services. The key service offering is SalesXPO (Sales Expert Professional Outsourcing) targeted at enhancing North American and European companies’ growth strategies in India/ASEAN. He is also an advisor and guest speaker to the Entrepreneurship program at St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. He has been an active member of the community and actively engaged in non-profit organizations such as Joy of Sports and Stop Child Abuse in Northern Virginia in the Washington DC metro. He was also a member of the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department.