Amit Pande

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs 8 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of leadership in Enterprise Tech.
Launched 14+ next-gen products at major tech companies.
Scaled multiple AI startups with significant revenue growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI product leader with extensive experience in enterprise solutions.

Contact

pande.amit@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAi StrategyBusiness StrategyGenerative AiMarketingInnovation

Other Skills

AIAI AssistantAI workflowsB2BBrand BuildingBrand developmentBusiness AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceCRMCX studioCommercial AI applicationsCompetitive AnalysisConsultingCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer Engagement

About

AI product and venture builder in the SF Bay Area with over two decades of leadership experience in Enterprise Tech. Scaled Commercial AI products at C3 AI and leading AI startups including Aviso AI (Guided Revenue OS) and Tact AI (1st Sales Assistant, acquired by Aktana) Led global teams from 0 to 150+, with focus on innovation and growth. Launched 14+ next-gen products at Oracle, Yahoo, HP spanning compute, ad tech, and enterprise Developed frontier ideas: Featured on shows like GTMNow (top 1% podcast). AI Strategy instructor at IITs

Experience

C3 ai

GM & VP

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

Hired by Tom Siebel and CPO to lead product and P&L for new commercial AI applications, integrating agentic orchestration, generative and predictive workflows for some of the world's most complex industries including High-tech, Semiconductors, Life Sciences, Financial Services, CPG, Retail.
/ Delivered 5 agentic products in Commercial Planning, Sales Execution, and Customer Growth areas
/ Generated $XXXM+ pipeline and $XX ARR including with partners like McKinsey, Microsoft, and Fractal
/ Secured key Fortune 500 reference wins, beating Palantir and best-in-class enterprise AI platforms
C3 AI (NASDAQ: AI) is a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications, and C3 Generative AI, a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the enterprise

Commercial AI applicationsGenerative AIPredictive workflowsP&L managementSales ExecutionCustomer Growth+2

Menlo ventures

Menlo Fellow

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

The Menlo Fellowship is a cohort of builders pursuing frontier ideas in AI, data and workflows in B2B.

AIData workflowsB2BBusiness StrategyGenerative AI

Aviso ai

EVP Strategy & Chief Marketing Officer

Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Aviso is an AI Revenue Operating System trusted by leaders like Honeywell, RingCentral, Armis, and Lenovo. Post company recap in early 2019, I worked with a new investor and first time CEO to drive a successful turnaround and build a disruptive brand, escaping a death trap of Forecasting only focus.
In this time, I was promoted from VP Marketing -> CMO -> CMO and EVP Strategy (Growth Officer)
/ Reset brand and drove ~700%+ ARR growth with new first-time CEO and new investors
/ Built from scratch 25+ team across Marketing, Growth, Adoption, Business Value, SDRs
/ Launched industry’s 1st Gen AI Chief of Staff for sales teams with NYSE at Time Square
/ Secured 3X G2 Top 50, 10+ key reports with Forrester & Gartner, Frost & Sullivan Award
/ Shaped product roadmap with new AI workflows (Generative AI, NLP, Vision, Prediction)
/ Expanded key accounts e.g. Honeywell, gaining HBR recognition for $150M revenue boost
/ Beat 50X more funded competitors with disruptive campaigns and content playbooks

Brand developmentRevenue growthAI workflowsMarketingProduct Management

Stanford university graduate school of business

Board Member, GSB Alumni Association

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto

3-year Board term for Stanford GSB Alumni Association Board of Directors. The Board consists of alumni who guide the school in serving 30,000+ GSB alumni and its mission to develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world.

Amit pande

GTM & Product Advisor, AI investor

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Selectively advise and invest in startups at the intersection of AI, SaaS, and enterprise workflows. Current investments include pre-seed and seed stage investments across
Agentic AI
GTM SaaS
Cybersecurity Platforms
Education SaaS

Tact.ai

Head of Marketing

Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Tact.ai was acquired by Aktana in Nov 2023. Tact was the first AI Assistant for Sales with a mission to make enterprise software more human-friendly with frictionless CRM solutions. Tact.ai was backed by Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Upfront Ventures, M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), Comcast Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Amazon Alexa Fund.
/ Grew ARR ~1000%+ via Series B & C rounds, repositioning as AI Assistant category pioneer
/ Partnered with Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce to develop ubiquitous AI Assistant use cases
/ Built team of 8 across demand generation, product & content marketing, digital, enablement
/ Optimized enterprise land & expand GTM at Fortune 500 e.g. GE, Dell, Honeywell, Novartis
/ Implemented global sales enablement playbooks for 25+ US & EMEA enterprise reps

Hp

Director of Product Strategy & Marketing

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto · On-site

/ Defined HP’s next-generation roadmap and GTM for high-margin cloud & mobile solutions
/ Grew revenue from $50MM to $350MM. Drove enablement via new apps across ~5000 reps
/ Built 15-member team of product and solutions marketers, 'imagineers', global SMEs
/ Collaborated with central marketing on campaigns, EBCs, launches, SKOs, Analyst Days

AI AssistantDemand generationSales enablementMarketingProduct Management

Stanford graduate school of business

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Stanford, CA

Founded in 1958, the Stanford Sloan/MSx Fellows program is a 1 year Masters in Business for experienced leaders and entrepreneurs at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Hewlett packard enterprise

Director, Product Innovation

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

/ Setup HP's 1st global integrated CX studio blending design, product, and engineering
/ Expanded 50+ innovation team of PMs, designers, engineers across Texas, Zurich, India
/ Built $200MM pipeline by re-imagining industry workflow solutions via mobile and cloud experiences e.g. Travel & Transportation, Telecom, Healthcare. Drove key anchor wins

Spire technologies

Vice President, Marketing & Experience

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr

/ First marketing hire. Created 9-products roadmap with CEO, built all functions from scratch
/ Grew startup from bootstrapping stage to $8MM seed funding, building 6-member team
/ Positioned as Human Capital innovator, winning Red Herring top 100 innovators award

CX studioInnovationMobile solutionsProduct Management

Yahoo!

Senior Manager, Product Design

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs

/ Built 8-member team of designers, researchers, prototypers for adtech platforms
/ Drove new product releases for Search Advertising and Display Advertising, designing next generation iPad experiences (resulting in 2 patents), and ad quality tools
/ Invented Rapid Innovation Labs kit, accelerating time-to-market by 30%+ for launches

Oracle

Senior Manager, Applications User Experience

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 · 4 yrs

/ Built team of 12 across interaction & visual design, usability engineering, user research
/ Led UX for industry’s 1st “Plant Management” dashboard as part of a $2B JDEdwards
/ After PeopleSoft acquisition, delivered UX for Oracle Fusion CRM and PeopleSoft Apps
portfolio across CRM Sales and Service and Human Capital Management areas
/ Integrated PeopleSoft and Oracle design systems and libraries for faster development
/ Led "Composite Apps" work towards single pane of glass for Oracle apps.
/ Built first non-US international usability labs in Asia and supported Asia R&D teams on design practices

Multiple companies

Product and Design Consulting

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

/ SupportSoft: Worked with self-healing software pioneer (former Zynga executive team) to improve user experiences for self and assisted service products
/ CKS: Conducted ethnographic research with Nokia and USAID on new mobile and digital products for rural education in Asia
/ Compusol: Worked on emerging market ICT projects with Microsoft partnership, winning BBC & UN acclaim for rural social impact through electronic governance

University of minnesota

Research Specialist

Aug 2001 – Dec 2002 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Designed and developed Square-IT and Plan-Merge, expert Decision Support Software Systems for National Science Foundation project on Intelligent Manufacturing. Designed algorithms for providing critiquing based decision support to expert machinists. Research enhanced manufacturing planning efficiency by 40%. Work resulted in 7+ publications including in IEEE, AAAI, and ASME conferences.