Gaurav Kulshrestha
Associate Vice President – Rest of West
Gaurav Kulshrestha is a growth-focused ICT leader with over 15 years of B2B experience and proficiency in ICT consulting for IoT, WAN solutions, managed services, unified communications, managed security, and cloud (IaaS/SaaS) offerings.
As Associate Vice President — Rest of West at Sify Technologies, Gaurav leads business expansion across Pune, Ahmedabad, and other Western India markets. He is distinguished for consultative CXO-level engagements, enterprise account management, and building high-performing cross-functional teams focused on operational efficiency, collections, profitability, and sustained customer success. Gaurav's expertise spans ICT solution sales, data center and cloud services, security, network integration, and executing regional go-to-market strategies for large and mid-market segments.
Prior to Sify, Gaurav held senior business development, sales, and leadership assignments at Vodafone Idea, Vodafone, Tata Communications, Bharti Airtel, Tulip Telecom, and the enterprise solutions team at Sify Technologies. Gaurav holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Ramaiah Institute of Technology.
Scaling GenAI in Global Capability Centers Beyond the AI CoE
Across India’s Global Capability Centers (GCCs), artificial intelligence (AI) has moved well beyond experimentation. Dedicated AI Centers of Excellence (CoE) are becoming increasingly common; enterprise pilots are delivering measurable results, and leadership teams are now under increasing pressure to translate early success into enterprise-wide value.
