Srivatsan Venkatesan

CEO

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India26 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

2x founder with extensive startup experience
Expert in product management and go-to-market strategies
Proven track record in SaaS and enterprise software development

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS product management expert with a strong entrepreneurial background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go-to-market StrategySaasProduct ManagementProduct DevelopmentStorage Management

Other Skills

Brocade Fibre SwitchesBusiness DevelopmentChannel PartnersCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Disaster RecoveryEnterprise SoftwareEntrepreneurshipLean StartupLinuxManaged ServicesNew Product RolloutPartner ManagementPre-salesPresalesSAN

About

2x Founder. Engineer turned Product Manager. Currently building Highperformr AI as Cofounder/CEO - a GTM intelligence platform helping companies with account identification, buyer intent signals, and enriched data for ABM & SDR campaigns. We're creating the next ZoomInfo and a native-AI alternative to Clay. Previously as VP Product & BU Head for CRM products @ Freshworks, I was responsible for overall business growth, driving product strategy & engineering execution across the entire portfolio of CRM products (Freshsales, Freshmarketer & Freshworks CRM). Built all CRM products and related platform services ground up. Prior to that, I founded Cloudnucleus in 2009 in Chennai, India—which was acquired by Vembu Technologies. I've been involved in multiple startups in the last two decades, and I've gone through the start-up to scaling-up process. I enjoy meeting new people and hearing new perspectives. Talk to me about your startup ideas, entrepreneurship, investment and trends in B2B or B2C SaaS enterprise software.

Experience

Highperformr

Co-founder & CEO

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

Growthstore.xyz

Co-Founder

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Freshworks inc. (formerly freshdesk)

VP Product & BU Leader, Freshworks CRM Products

Mar 2014 – Jul 2023 · 9 yrs 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

Go-to-market StrategySoftware as a Service (SaaS)Pre-salesSaaSEnterprise Software

Vembu technologies

Vice President Of Product Management

Sep 2011 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

After the acquisition, I led the development of new Cloudnucleus-based storage products and the Storegrid platform after successfully integrating StorCube into the company. As VP Product and StoreGrid's Business Leader, I was responsible for product revenue, growth, product direction, roadmap, and go-to-market strategies for all storage products (both on-premises and SaaS).

Go-to-market StrategySoftware as a Service (SaaS)Pre-salesSaaSEntrepreneurshipEnterprise Software

Cloudnucleus technologies (acquired by vembu technologies)

Founder & CEO

Feb 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

CloudNucleus’s StorCube product was acquired by Vembu Technologies in 2011 and became Vembu StoreGrid Disk Image Backup. Vembu StoreGrid Disk Image Backup is a virtualization-based disk-image-based backup software. I was involved in all phases of product development, from market research to product UI/UX design and architecture, product release, sales, deployment, and customer service. I assembled the founding team and developed the business plan, and went to market with a marketing strategy, funding, partnerships, and acquisitions.

Product ManagementGo-to-market StrategyPre-salesGo-to-Market StrategyNew Product RolloutEntrepreneurship+2

Msys technologies

Vice President Of Engineering

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs · Chennai Area, India

Did successfully grow MSys from a small‐scale startup (less than 10 people) to a 150+ niche consulting startup in Storage & Virtualization space, and achieved multi‐fold revenue growth. I led the Pre‐sales, Engineering, and Delivery group worldwide to provide development consulting services in Storage & Virtualization technology space to huge Enterprises and Storage OEMs. I drove key partnerships (including LSI Logic, Promise, and Teneros) from pre‐sale engagement and business negotiations to product development.

Product DevelopmentStorageManaged ServicesGo-to-market StrategyPre-salesBusiness Development+3

Brocade/mcdata

Techinical Consultant

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

SAN and Storage management software product development and product design expertise. I have worked with OEMs (EMC, IBM, EMC) to develop SAN and Storage products like Brocade EFCM using their management interfaces like SNMP, SMIS, and other proprietary protocols. I was a member of the SNIA FC TWG and contributed to the Switch & Fabric specification profiles.

Storage Management SoftwareProduct DevelopmentStorage Area Network (SAN)Systems ProgrammingStorageManaged Services+3

Hcl technologies

Technical Lead

Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area & Chennai, India

I worked on product design and development at HCL Storage technology practice, where my specialty was building IP and products for large Storage OEM like Brocade, McDATA

StorageManaged ServicesLinuxStorage Management