Research Manager with a strong focus on Cloud Infrastructure strategies and decisions, product marketing and strategy, competitive analysis. Dynamic career of more than 8 years that reflects broad-based subject matter expertise in pre sales activities from various sources involving planning, solution design and techno-commercial functions. Responsible for market sizing, identifying key technology trends in the IT infrastructure space, analyzing rapidly changing end-user demand and preferences, and devising business models and practices relevant to technology suppliers. Currently managing the global research of major cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Oracle, Alibaba Cloud etc.