Gokul Suresh — CEO

Specialization needs Generalization. And I am a Marketer who has done multiple marathons in the different lanes of Marketing, carving a niche of my own. I specialize in building any marketing channels from scratch to a well-oiled machine that consistently does demand generation. I have done that previously with Inbound Marketing as a focus with: ★ Content Marketing - Built Whatfix's 2 blogs from scratch, 150+ blogs authored ★ Social Media and Community Buiding - Creating Social Media Identity for Whatfix | Creating Quora, SFDC Community, and other community and Q/A channels as active demand gen channels ★ PR creation and distribution - Handled Whatfix's Series A and B funding news and other stories ★ Product Marketing - Created the foundational set of collaterals, documentation, decks, and Go-to-market strategy ★ Partner Marketing - Active liaison between Whatfix and its Partners Currently, I am opening up Outbound channels with the major focus on enlarging the marketing footprint via: ★★ Virtual Events | Field Marketing | Growth Hacking | Influencer Marketing ★★ I am the first Marketer of the soonicorn Whatfix. And while we are growing at an incredible pace at all fronts, I have been able to stand as a pillar to all our marketing activities since inception. I currently head and manage the Global Events, Field Marketing, and the Growth Marketing team. My team is responsible for all physical, virtual events; growth hacking experiments, and influencer marketing activities. I also lead the APAC Marketing - taking care of all things marketing for Australia, SEA and India. I also take a lot of pride in being a Speaker at various events, hosting Whatfix's webinars with Influencers and Thought leaders, and also hosting the "Digital Adoption Show" Podcast which features thought leaders from L&D and HR industry. ----- If you are looking for someone who can give explosive ideas on B2B marketing - be it Lead generation, Content Strategy, Growth Marketing, Field Marketing, Social Media Marketing, or even questions on how to do Enterprise marketing - HIT ME UP on LinkedIn or tweet out to me on @i_mgokul I'm always up for jamming with some awesome ideas!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing expert with a strong focus on growth and demand generation.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 11 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Field Marketing
Growth Marketing
Event Management
Content Marketing
Influencer Marketing

Career Highlights

Pioneered digital adoption marketing strategies.
Led 700+ global events and campaigns.
First marketer at Whatfix, driving exponential growth.

Work Experience

Whatfix

Head of Global Field Marketing & APAC Marketing (1 yr 2 mos)

Director - Field & Growth Marketing (2 yrs 5 mos)

Associate Director - Field & Growth Marketing (1 yr 11 mos)

Senior Marketing Manager (1 yr)

Marketing Manager (1 yr)

Senior Content Manager (1 yr 6 mos)

Content Strategist (2 yrs 4 mos)

SaaStock

City Leader (5 mos)

The Digital Adoption Show Podcast

Podcast Host (6 yrs 6 mos)

Salesforce Ben

Guest Writer (2 yrs)

Focus Academy For Career Enhancement

Content Analyst (3 mos)

Education

Bachelor's Degree at University of Calicut

High School at The Indian High School, Dubai, UAE

Gokul Suresh

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered digital adoption marketing strategies.
Led 700+ global events and campaigns.
First marketer at Whatfix, driving exponential growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing expert with a strong focus on growth and demand generation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Field MarketingGrowth MarketingEvent ManagementContent MarketingInfluencer Marketing

Other Skills

BloggingBuild Strong RelationshipsBusiness StrategyCRMCommunity EngagementContent DevelopmentContent ManagementContent StrategyCorporate CommunicationsCritical ThinkingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Digital MarketingDigital MediaEditingEmail Marketing

About

Experience

Whatfix

7 roles

Head of Global Field Marketing & APAC Marketing

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

I currently lead Global Field Marketing and all of Marketing for the APAC region at Whatfix.
After successfully scaling Field and Growth Marketing into one of the highest-performing demand channels at Whatfix with category-defining campaigns, viral brand activations, and 700+ global events, I’ve now expanded my role to lead the entire APAC marketing charter. This includes full ownership across Brand, Inbound, Events, Outbound, and Growth for one of Whatfix’s most strategic regions.

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Director - Field & Growth Marketing

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

I lead and manage the Global Field Marketing, Growth Marketing, and Social Media team.
▪️If you've seen or heard anything about Events by Whatfix - that would be done by my team. We are the folks running multi-million $$$$ revenue from Whatfix through Field and Growth Marketing globally!
▪️My team is at the helm of all events Physical/Hybrid/Virtual, Marketing experiments, Viral campaigns, Social media, Communities, Co-marketing, and Influencer marketing activities.
▪️We have hosted, managed, and marketed 500+ events - physical and virtual - putting the Digital Adoption Category on the map, and evangelizing the new category worldwide.
▪️We are the quarterbacks in the creation of the category of Digital Adoption Solutions -> Check out DigitalAdoption.com
▪️We created the annual conference Digital Adoption Summit and the seasonal Digital Adoption Day (which together saw 7000+ L&D, Digital Transformation, HR, Change Management, and Sales Ops & Enablement folks watch the 45+ speakers and 40+ sessions!) which is now reimagined as :SCALED!!
▪️We run Integrated marketing campaigns which include Multi-funnel webinars, interviews, roundtables, and virtual events clubbed with Marketing automation, ABM, Content Marketing, Social Media, and Paid ads!
▪️We created the category's first Podcast - The Digital Adoption Show, in which we host Thought Leaders who lead the onboarding, training, support, change management, and digital transformation in global Enterprises.
▪️In a gist, we are "that" team behind many of the explosive marketing ideas that you might have seen from Whatfix!

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Associate Director - Field & Growth Marketing

Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Built and led a global Field & Growth Marketing team, turning it into a core demand engine.
Executed 100+ global events annually: conferences, virtual summits, regional roadshows, and CXO roundtables.
Created properties like Digital Adoption Summit, Digital Adoption Day, and the Digital Adoption Show podcast.
Drove integrated programs across social, content, paid, outbound, and influencer channels.
Helped grow Whatfix’s pipeline and brand into global markets across the US, EMEA, and APAC.

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Senior Marketing Manager

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

Owned and scaled Field and Growth Marketing into repeatable GTM engines.
Launched Whatfix’s first roadshow and ABM field marketing playbooks.
Partnered with Sales and SDRs to create pipeline acceleration programs across verticals and regions.
Operationalised regional campaigns, driving high-touch CXO engagement and vertical-specific lead gen.
Amplified growth experiments with influencer tie-ups, roundtables, and co-branded initiatives.

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Marketing Manager

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

Transitioned from content to owning end-to-end multi-channel marketing campaigns.
Led campaigns that blended organic, community, events, and early ABM to drive demand.
Took ownership of webinars, digital partnerships, co-marketing, and regional growth initiatives.
Started building the blueprint for Whatfix’s event-led marketing engine.
Played a core role in shaping early Field Marketing motion - laying the groundwork for future pipeline programs.

Critical Thinking

Senior Content Manager

Jul 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

Expanded into a cross-functional marketing role, scaling Whatfix’s organic and brand channels.
Launched campaigns across social media, Quora, webinars, influencer marketing, and events.
Built Whatfix’s resource hub with eBooks, case studies, and videos to fuel MQL and demo generation.
Owned and executed our events, webinar program, partner content, and branding playbooks.
Spearheaded influencer marketing with Salesforce ecosystem leaders, driving visibility and partnerships.

Critical Thinking

Content Strategist

Feb 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Joined as the first marketer at Whatfix and built the foundation of our organic growth engine.
Owned everything content and inbound - from blogs, SEO, and eBooks to branding, PR, and events.
Created Whatfix’s first content strategy, leading to our earliest inbound leads and digital presence.
Drove a 590%+ YoY increase in traffic to our Whatfix Academy (Blog) and played a pivotal part in creating content for the category - Digital Adoption. The keyword "Interactive walkthroughs" was created and nurtured by me, which is now well-acclaimed as a primary keyword of Digital Adoption.
Led early influencer marketing, collateral creation, and evangelism efforts for the then-nascent Digital Adoption category.
Played a key role in early analyst, sales, and customer success content.

Saastock

City Leader

Jun 2020 – Nov 2020 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As the City Leader I lead the entire marketing and operations for the SaaStock Bangalore Chapter.

Build Strong RelationshipsCritical Thinking

The digital adoption show podcast

Podcast Host

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

In the Digital Adoption Show Podcast, we host luminaries from large organizations and thought leaders in HR and L&D to talk about the strategies that work, inspiring stories of execution and growth, and how they exceptionally accelerate digital adoption!

Build Strong RelationshipsCritical Thinking

Salesforce ben

Guest Writer

Feb 2018 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs

Salesforce Ben is the leading Salesforce blog in the world, dedicated to covering news, tricks, certifications and career advice.
Contributing to the Salesforce Community, I have written several articles for SalesforceBen.

Focus academy for career enhancement

Content Analyst

Jun 2014 – Sep 2014 · 3 mos · Coimbatore, India

Focus Academy for career enhancement (F.A.C.E) is a pioneer in the field of employability skills training and MBA entrance test prep(CAT/MAT/TANCET) in India. The company offers skill development programs for college students especially focusing on employability skills, soft skills, and aptitude/competitive examinations. I worked in-hand with both F.A.C.E and their incubated start-up ChalkStreet.
At FACE I was a Content Analyst specializing in maintaining and creating content for various projects for F.A.C.E and ChalkStreet (A startup by the same founders).
The highlights of my work include:
Worked on the project Faceboard - An online education portal targeting various colleges in India which gives the students access to the resources of F.A.C.E for self-tutoring.
Preparing and managing content for Invigorate – A soft skill and personality development course specially conducted for engineering students.
Working on making educational tutorials on C, C++ for an online education portal (Faceboard). The tutorials were made using chroma key technology and I had the opportunity to oversee its making, content, and execution.
Creating educational courses for ChalkStreet that helps graduates learn with placement specific topics and employability skills.