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Bharat Khanna

Researcher · DISC type Cs
Enterprise Sales - India at GitLab
📍 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Bharat is a seasoned enterprise sales leader with over 16 years at Oracle India, currently spearheading MySQL software sales as the Country Manager for India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management. Colleagues describe him as an exceptional, strategic, and empathetic leader.

He is a three-time MVP award winner within Oracles Global MySQL field sales organization.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Enterprise Sales - India
Location
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Personality Overview

How Bharat shows up

ROI Seeker
Soft Communicator
Perfectionist

They are heavily focused on quality and prefer doing things the right way, even if it takes time. They tend to have clarity about their needs and constraints, and are unlikely to over-promise. They do not like taking risks at all and go for proven options in the end.

Priorities

Topics Bharat cares about

Open-Source Evangelism
Identifies as an "Open-Source Evangelist" and has built his career around MySQL, a prominent open-source database, advocating for its commercial use and adoption.
Enterprise Sales Leadership
Focused on building and leading high-performance teams to tackle complex enterprise deals, as evidenced by his long tenure and consistent quota overachievement at Oracle.
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Career

Work history

12-2025
Enterprise Sales - India
GitLab
3-2024 - 11-2025
Country Manager, MySQL Software Sales
Oracle
9-2021 - 2-2024
Enterprise Java Sales Manager - India
Oracle
3-2014 - 8-2021
Senior Sales Manager - Enterprise Business
Oracle
9-2011 - 2-2014
Sr. Account Manager - Embedded Sales
Oracle
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Education
2007 - 2009
Masters Of Business Administration
Indian Institute of Planning and Management
2003 - 2006
Bachelor of Business Administration
DELHI SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH, NORTH WEST DELHI
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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