Venkatesh Upadrista is currently working for a large IT services company holding responsibility at a business unit level to manage multiple large client relationships. During his IT career, he has won several large business deals based on the knowledge he possesses in consultative selling techniques. He began compiling management encyclopedias as a high school student. Venkatesh took the vast collection of experimental facts from various sources and the research that he had been accumulating for several years and began to deploy them throughout his professional experience. He is an advisor to a number of business development initiatives and has been a partner to CIOs of several large organizations to help them define ways to improve their top-line and bottom-line revenues and to prioritize their business initiatives. His experience moves across project management and sales leadership. He has worked in a blended mixture of the onsite/offshore model and through his experience, has helped many customers move their strategies to gain several qualitative and quantitative benefits.