Akshay Patel — Co-Founder
Unapologetically Emphatic! With over a decade of experience in product and scaling SaaS companies, I am a Global SaaS Strategist at AWS, where I lead the global SaaS strategy to drive growth of SaaS companies on AWS. My core competencies include generative AI, SaaS transformation for executives, and product management SVP Product, CPO). Impact made to AWS is $4 billion+ driving 3-100x times customer enterprise value across all segments and industries (startups to large multi national companies). I consider myself pragmatic and an optimistic GenAI leader-I’ll give you the use case and ROI. My mission is to enable, empower, and scale SaaS leaders with quality, simplicity, and empathy. Product Executive with over 20 years building and scaling software companies and teams with SaaS in the cloud. Currently driving AI strategy for AWS global customers in various segments, industries, and growth stages to realize optimization, product transformation, and reimagination of the businesses. Business Impact: Led hundreds of organizations resulting in 4-12x growth with $300M+ P&L product ownership. Influenced $5+ billion in AWS revenue through strategic product vision, transformation, and go-to-market for customers in startup, scaleup, and enterprise. Board, Investor, and CXO Experience: Advised private equity and venture capital portfolio companies through growth challenges and due diligence strategies for exits or pivots. Direct feedback led to CPO hire at $4+ billion public company (later PE acquisition). Active in Founder/CEO/CXO strategic decision making across companies globally. AI & Agentic Leadership: Pioneering “Agentic SaaS” business models extending Jeff Bezos’ Two-Pizza Concept. Leading industry evolution from traditional SaaS to AI-first architectures for monetization and preparing for scaled adoption and organizational changes. Leadership Acumen: Compassionate mentor, public speaker, and trusted advisor. Strategic Vision & Execution | Digital Transformation & AI Strategy | P&L Ownership & Growth | Board Advisory & Investor Relations | Global Team Leadership & Scaling | M&A & Exit Strategy Due Diligence Financial Modeling Metrics | Software as a Service (SaaS) | Go to Market | Pricing & Packaging | Scaling Product PLG | AI Agentic topics: Prompt engineering, fine tuning, bias & responsible AI, model choice, compute & scalable architectures | Hiring & talent development |Public speaker & blogger
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI strategy expert with extensive leadership experience.
Location: New York, New York, United States
Experience: 22 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Product Leadership
- Saas Transformation
- Go-to-market Strategy
- Advisory Services
- Investments
- Strategic Leadership
- Ai Vision
- Service Delivery Management
- Cloud Billing Management
- Business Development
- Product Management
Career Highlights
- Over $5 billion influenced in AWS revenue.
- Expert in SaaS transformation and AI strategy.
- Compassionate mentor and trusted advisor.
Work Experience
AI Circle
Founding Member (2 yrs 2 mos)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SaaS/AI Product Executive and Strategist (2 yrs 7 mos)
Principal SaaS Business Lead | Global | AWS SaaS Factory (1 yr 11 mos)
AWS SaaS Boost - Founding member (2 yrs 6 mos)
SaaS Business Architect - SaaS Factory / AWS SaaS Boost (2 yrs)
Self-employed
Angel Investor (7 yrs 1 mo)
Stealth Startup
Co-Founder (8 mos)
Mitel
Senior Product Leader (SaaS Cloud Platform/Service Delivery) (2 yrs 1 mo)
ShoreTel
Senior Product Manager | Cloud Billing and Operating Platform - (Acquired by Mitel) (1 yr 6 mos)
Simple2Roam
Head of Product Managent and Business Development (3 yrs 7 mos)
Keymile
Group Product Manager (1 yr 9 mos)
ARRIS
Technical Support Engineer (3 yrs)
Precision Tune
Business Development (1 yr 2 mos)
Post Impressions (Systems) Ltd
Test Engineer (3 mos)
Test and Verification Engineer (3 mos)
Par Agencies
Business Development (2 yrs 7 mos)
Education
MS at Mercer University
Bachelor of Science - BS at Mercer University
