Shashank Dixit, CEO of Deskera Singapore Pte. Ltd, named Executive of the Year - Technology at the SBR Management Excellence Awards 2018

The company has steadily grown as Southeast Asia's largest cloud company under his exceptional brand of leadership and vision.

Shashank Dixit, CEO and Founder of Deskera Singapore Pte. Ltd, has been named executive of the year – Technology by SBR Management Excellence Awards 2018. The award ceremony was held last night at Conrad Centennial, Singapore

Now in its fourth year, the SBR award honors the country's most outstanding business leaders, including trailblazing individuals and teams whose initiatives have brought tangible business gains for their company's operations.

Deskera, the largest cloud company in South East Asia, offers a powerful cloud-based platform to millions of SMEs globally. SMEs use Deskera to run their business, track their accounts and finances, manage their customers and to even hire & manage employees

Winning this award is testament to Shashank’s exceptional leadership and vision. Under his leadership, Deskera has grown to become the largest cloud company in South East Asia and is already making inroads into new markets.

“I am deeply honored and humbled to have received this recognition. I started Deskera with a singular mission to help SME’s by providing them access to leading-edge technology. I will continue to work towards that goal and drive more connectivity and inclusivity for SME’s ” said Shashank Dixit.

Deskera is also a key player and onboarded Value Added Services (VAS) provider on Singapore's Networked Trade Platform (NTP). NTP enables seamless exchange of trade and logistics information and documentation between businesses.Therefore, SME’s using Deskera’s cloud solution can automate generation and storage of information on the NTP directly through the solution.

Deskera has now won several awards, including the Asian Private Equity & Venture Capital (AVCJ) Awards 2018 for ‘Deal of the Year – Early-Stage Technology’ and Influential Brands 2018 Asia CEO Summit & Award Ceremony for ‘ 2018 Outstanding CEO of the year. Headquartered in Singapore, the company is present around the world with offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, United States and India.

The Singapore Business Review Management Excellence Awards was held on November 22, 2018 at the Conrad Centennial Singapore. The award honours the country's most outstanding business leaders, including trailblazing individuals and teams whose initiatives have brought tangible business gains for their company's operations.

The 2018 nominees were judged by a panel consisting of Henry Tan, Managing Director at NEXIA TS; David Chew, Executive Director, Risk Advisory Deloitte Southeast Asia, Lim Wei Wei, Partner, Practice Leader, Governance, and Risk at Baker Tilly TFW; Pardeep Singh Khosa, Director of Dispute Resolution at Drew & Napier; and Yang Eu Jin, Partner and Co Head of Capital Markets Practice at RHTLaw Taylor Wessing LLP.

If you would like to join the 2019 awards and be awarded as one of the most outstanding management executives of Singapore, please email [email protected].

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