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# Deepak Rajendran on Tal

## 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

claude

lovable

meta

claudecode

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

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