Winner. Business Leader of the Year 2024

Praveen Kumar Mannam

Position: Senior Manager, Data, Automation & Analytics Release Management
Company: Salesforce.com
City: Frisco, Texas
Country: USA
Economic/Business Sector: Software & IT Services

Leading the way in IT transformation, Praveen Kumar Mannam offers businesses innovative technology solutions that yield tangible advantages and outcomes. He has experience in the Computer Software industry, loves to learn, and appreciates cutting-edge technologies.

He has judged international science and technology competitions and hackathons and reviewed international journals and publications.

Mr. Mannam has extensive experience as a strategist. In addition to being a technologist with expertise in managing a wide range of cutting-edge web-based goods and services, from enterprise platforms to mobile interfaces, he serves as a mentor for aspiring entrepreneurs and students in high school and college. He is strongly committed to mentoring non-profit startups, particularly those that use EdTech to benefit people with limited resources.

Praveen Kumar Mannam is currently employed by "SALESFORCE.COM", the top CRM firm in the world, as a Senior Technology Leader in Data and Analytics Release Management. He has 14 years of experience driving breakthrough transformation, innovation, and operational performance within enterprise-class technology environments. He has a lot of expertise in managing IT projects, strategies, and new product launches.

Mr. Mannam is a thought leader in the IT sector and has successfully delivered various complex and mission-critical software applications, infrastructure, and product releases from concept to launch. He has contributed to the research and development of innovative products for businesses across Fortune 100 technology, healthcare, CRM, banking, telecommunications, and retail companies.

Before Salesforce, he worked as a consultant for well-known companies like Microsoft, Mastercard, AT&T, Starbucks, Portland General Electric, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. He has constantly worked to deliver the finest user experiences and business results by fusing the best of people, processes, and technology. He contributed to developing innovative business apps that use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support key corporate functions.

Praveen Mannam has a tremendous passion for mentoring high school and college students to cultivate innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets. In addition, he coaches non-profit startups, particularly those involved in the EdTech sector, to help the underprivileged. Currently, he is an IT Technology Advisor at Scienspur.org, a Harvard-funded initiative.

Professional Memberships:
• Senior Member IEEE
• ACM Member
• IAENG Life Member
• Royal Society of Arts Member.

Praveen Kumar Mannam has recently managed a Cloud Project, and the 5-year ROI on this shift to the Cloud is estimated at $80 Million. Specific to his contributions as a Release Manager, the transition from manual on-prem releases to cloud-based CICD has allowed the team to scale the number of releases by 1566.67%, going from 60 releases per annum to over 1000 releases annually.

He and the team went live with the implementation of their FIRST BT AI/ML Anomaly detection solution for Finance Systems, which is an Intelligent Audit that would move the needle on the Financial Audit of Payable Invoices from around 4% to 100%, covering a $5 billion yearly spend across 250K invoices.

Mr. Mannam was recognized as a Professional of the Year | IT Cloud/SaaS GOLD GLOBEE® WINNER (Predict anomalies for a $1 billion marketing spend annually).

He participated in the 26th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) 2023, with the presentation on Optimizing Software Release Management with GPT-Enabled Log Anomaly Detection.

Praveen Kumar is a Senior IEEE member and a member of the Royal Society of Arts.