Headline

Customer Marketing & Advocacy | Community Relations | New Business Development | Marketing & Communications

About

The last couple of decades have seen me enable, empower, and engage with the most influential and passionate technology community heroes, thought leaders, and influencers globally. Owing to a diverse experience in marketing and business development, I have developed both - a strong entrepreneurial spirit of startups and a rigorous operational discipline of corporates. My core competencies include defining and executing global go-to-market strategies, building and nurturing long-term and high-value relationships, driving advocacy and loyalty programs, and leading cross-functional teams. I am passionate about tech storytelling, cloud, developer, and emerging technologies, and I have received multiple awards and recognitions for my customer passion, forward thinking, and leadership. My mission is to inspire and support the next generation of innovators and change-makers.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Global Head - Customer Community & Education at Freshworks, Jun 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

India, South Asia & Middle-East Lead - MVP, RD & MLSA Programs at Microsoft, Nov 2016 - Mar 2024 · 7 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Growth Hacker at Multiple startups, 2016 - Nov 2016 · 10 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Consultant with various startups on GTM definition, marketing & branding, outbound sales strategy, lead generation etc.

Head - Marketing and Sales at Collabion Charts for SharePoint, 2015 - 2016 · 1 yr, Greater Bengaluru Area, P&L responsibility for an annual revenue of USD 1 Million. KRAs include defining global GTM strategy, marketing, sales, product management, partners & alliances, HR and operations.

Manager - Americas Marketing at Akamai Technologies, Aug 2012 - Nov 2014 · 2 y 3 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Own marketing responsibility for large existing customer accounts in Americas – annual revenue range between USD 100K and USD 10M. Pioneered “value-marketing” campaigns that reaffirmed clients’ faith in Akamai. (As Manager – Account Development (Outbound)) Responsible for Akamai’s growth in the High-Tech industry vertical in North America by penetrating key market segments and expanding the install-base, by generating opportunities of over $30M in revenue.

WW Marketing Manager at IBM, Jul 2009 - Aug 2012 · 3 y 1 mo, Bengaluru

Audience Marketing Manager at Microsoft, Aug 2005 - May 2009 · 3 y 9 mo, Bengaluru

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Science/Studies, Visvesvaraya Technological University