Kunal Parikh

CEO

Irvine, California, United States23 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded award-winning Salesforce services firm Aethereus.
Led CX strategy for Salesforce practice at Cognizant.
Expert in AI, Data Cloud, and Salesforce transformations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS executive with deep expertise in Salesforce and customer experience innovation.

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Business AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCRMChange ManagementCloud ComputingCloud StrategyConsultingCorporate Strategy FormulationCustomer Relationship ManagementDigital MarketingEnterprise ApplicationsEnterprise SoftwareManagementManagement Consulting

About

Kunal is an experienced executive with 20+ years of experience. He currently a co-founder at Aethereus, an award winning Salesforce services firm. Kunal leads the sales and advisory teams to help customers derive more value from the power of AI+Data+CRM. Aethereus is known for their focus on innovation and client success. They specialize in Salesforce Industries and Data cloud - bringing cross-cloud expertise, quick starts and managed services offerings for rapid value realisation. Past: Kunal led the Customer Experience (CX) Strategy group for Salesforce practice at Cognizant where he delivered marquee engagements in Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing and CPG space. Specialties: Design Thinking led co-creation, Blueprinting of Global Salesforce Transformations, leverage Industry 4.0 technologies for Marketing, Sales and Service innovation

Experience

Myridius

Senior Vice President - Salesforce

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Co-founded Aethereus to help clients achieve meaningful customer experience outcomes using Salesforce platform. Aethereus was acquired by Myridius in September 2024 and now work to lead GTM for Myridius Salesforce practice.

Myridius x aethereus

Co-Founder | Sales and Advisory | Aethereus (acquired by Myridius)

Jul 2019 – Sep 2024 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Co-Founded Aethereus in 2019 and scaled it up to a 7X award winning Salesforce Summit partner with 250+ consultants. Aethereus is well known in the Salesforce ecosystem for it's focus on AI, Data Cloud and Industry clouds.

Cognizant

Director - CX Consulting

Nov 2005 – Jul 2019 · 13 yrs 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

CX Consulting leader at Cognizant enabling digital transformations using Salesforce platform. Core interests lie at the intersections of emerging Business models, power of digital platforms and Industry 4.0 technologies.
Kunal was also the Global Marketing Leader for Salesforce practice responsible for elevating Cognizant mindshare with customer and partner teams.

Hole-in-the-wall education limited

Business Manager

Apr 2005 – Nov 2005 · 7 mos

Worked as a Business Manager for a start-up funded by NIIT and World Bank called HIWEL limited (Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited). Kunal was responsible for devising Business strategy as well as handling the Business Development function for this start-up.

Sap india

Consultant

Oct 2003 – Apr 2004 · 6 mos

Sales/CRM Functional Consultant : Leverage functional experience in Quote to Cash process to provide consulting to worldwide client teams and resolve client functional issues on SAP platform.
SAP Certification on Sales & Distribution module to consult with clients on Quote to Cash and Customer Service problems.