Sandesh Kaup, Country Manager, Milestone Systems, India & SAARC
Milestone Systems, a well-known provider of open platform video management, has roped in Sandesh Kaup as the new Country Manager for India & SAARC. Sandesh Kaup re-joins the Milestone family after four years in a highly successful leadership position at Allied Telesis, a network products & systems company.
A Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation from Mumbai University, Kaup comes with over two decades of experience and significant exposure handling multiple global companies. In addition, he has developed expertise in building businesses for companies like Bosch Security, Ingram Micro, and Anixter during his early career.
Jordan Cullis, Director for APAC at Milestone Systems, said, “Sandesh not only brings his exhaustive experience of two decades in the security industry, but has prior experience with Milestone where he has displayed illustrious leadership and yielded the company to great growth numbers. His experience, contacts in the Indian market and sales focused management style will be instrumental in recovering the region after such a difficult, COVID-effected 2020”.
“It is like coming back home. I am excited to be back with Milestone, especially at a time when India is presenting great opportunities for the VMS industry growth. I am sure that the global expertise which I have gained over the years will help me take Milestones’ businesses to newer highs”, viewed Kaup. “Also, with the most recent Marketplace 2.0 release, Milestone now has unmatched possibilities of video solutions for organizations looking for new video solutions and for the existing users of Milestone XProtect who are looking to enhance the present functionality. This opens up great opportunities for us to work with even more partner to take our solutions to major business accounts in India”, added he.
In his earlier tenure at Milestone, Sandesh had nurtured the sales growth in India, which saw a 40 percent YoY growth from 2011 to 2015. Apart from building important business accounts he also played an instrumental role in building synergies and creating an ecosystem (solution partner) across server storage, networking, access control manufacturer, and command control software and other third-party software.
Sandesh has also earned industry accolades like the Milestone Leadership Compass Award in 2014 and was the Winner of the resident Club 2015 Award for the Best Growth year-on-year.
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