Sharad Verma

CEO

Menlo Park, California, United States20 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded and scaled multiple successful SaaS products.
  • Led product management at Yahoo!, generating $100M in revenue.
  • Expert in building innovative marketing solutions for B2B.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech and SaaS expert with a strong background in product management and innovation.

Contact

heysharad@gmail.comLinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Big DataBusiness DevelopmentConsumer InternetData AnalysisGo-to-market StrategyMachine LearningProduct ManagementProduct StrategySoftware as a Service (SaaS)Strategic PartnershipsStrategyUser ExperienceUser Interface DesignUser StudiesUser-centered Design

About

Sharad is an authentic leader and repeat founder with a track record of building and scaling multiple market-creating products used by some of the most iconic brands and taking enterprise SaaS products from early product-market fit to repeatable sales and recurring revenue. Sharad founded Piqora in 2012 with the mission of making marketing more authentic. Piqora's visual marketing suite served over 250 brands and generated several millions of dollars in recurring revenue before getting acquired in 2016. At BloomReach, Sharad was the product head of award-winning analytics and personalization products helping retail merchandisers access insights, opportunities and execute merchandising actions from a single unified workflow powered by both machine learning and human curation. At Yahoo!, Sharad led product management for web search relevance as well as search marketing products, lead several launches of machine learned ranking function, brought Yahoo's content index coverage on par with Google and delivered $100m in incremental revenue via several innovative products and experiments. Specialties include: 1. Product - Experience building roadmaps that are driven by vision and intuition, customer outcomes, industry and competition, balanced on both short and long term bets 2. Strategy - Market building skills, Non-linear thinking, product distribution and growth 3. Leadership & Management - Extensive experience mentoring and building product management, inside sales, marketing, engineering and customer success teams from scratch 4. Sales - Scaling inside sales, sales operations, managing small team of enterprise reps 5. Marketing - Category creation, messaging/positioning, content marketing, inbound marketing, hosting company conferences, data driven PR 7. Design - Creating design first, rapid prototyping, and lean customer development culture in enterprise software companies

Experience

Vidoso

Co-founder/CEO

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

  • Vidoso.ai — trusted by Dialpad, Iterable, Cerebras, Seismic, SmartRecruiters, and others — is Multi-modal Agentic-AI solution for B2B marketers that shortens the cycle of branded campaign assets - videos, clips, emails, sequences, social posts, and long form content - shrinking campaign turn around time from weeks to hours, saving > 5 hours per week per marketer and lowers production costs by 30%.
  • Vidoso's GPT+ agentic orchestration, builds on your custom context, learns from your asset specific writing styles, tailors content to your personas, segments and verticals, sources context from your recordings, past content and videos -- and turns campaign briefs into a mutli-channel personalized assets in many variants instantly.
  • Vidoso GPT+ agents are prompt-less. These bulk production agents can INSTANTLY turn a webinar into 50+ assets, take a campaign built from briefs/videos/documents and create derivative and atomized campaign assets, turn a customer interview into case studies and video clips for multiple personas in minutes.
  • Vidoso is a single integrated multi-modal AI platform across videos, text, short and long form - to help marketing teams grow both brand and demand, expand the capacity of marketing teams and show real ROI from AI initiatives

Boostup.ai

2 roles

Founder

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Founder & CEO

May 2018 – Jul 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Raised $50m+ in seed, series A, series B rounds from institutional VCs
  • Scaled the company from $0 to $X million in ARR
  • As the original founder/ceo, recruited C level and VP executives, star super ICs, directors and other co-founders
  • Led product directly and launched 4 products - call intelligence, deal intelligence, AI forecasting and RevBI (Tableau for Sales)
  • Built a global team of 120+ Boosters in 10+ geographies
  • Built a culture of innovation, ownership, speed of execution and kindness
  • Effectively competed with many incumbents with 50% competitive win rate and many $500K+ enterprise deals, 100+ deals sold in 3 years
  • Directly hired our maverick sales team and several members of our marketing team
  • Grew 3X in ARR with 130% NRR in 2021
  • Won several awards - including 3x momentum leader in RevOps category on G2

Bloomreach

Vice President, Analytics & AI Products

Mar 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • As the head of product and GM of BloomReach's analytics and personalization product lines, I led a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, sales, customer success, marketing and engineering. Key milestones include --
  • 1. Gave definition and direction to the product; "Analytics in plain english"
  • 2. Coached the PM team in the areas of strategy, shaping, product roadmapping, customer communication and shipping skills
  • 3. Boosted field sales & company confidence in the product by investing in demoability and training. Grew the ARR by 50+%
  • 4. Shifted the product from a "bag of reports" to a set of prescriptive playbooks designed around outcome opportunities
  • 5. Expanded the analytics product to a complete merchandiser system of engagement

Piqora (acquired by monotype)

CEO/Co-founder

Feb 2012 – Feb 2016 · 4 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

  • I led a team of product, sales, marketing, customer success and engineers to build and scale Piqora's visual content marketing suite that helped consumer brands drive engagement, sales & ROI from Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr. 200+ brands used Piqora over 3 years generating $3.6mm ARR. Piqora raised over $12 million in venture capital from DFJ, Baseline, Freestyle, Altos, Firebolt and Lazerow ventures.

Yahoo! inc.

Product Director, Yahoo! Web Search AI

Aug 2007 – Aug 2010 · 3 yrs

  • Led a team of product managers, designers, engineers and scientists to build great web search relevance and advertising products that wowed both search advertisers and consumers. Delivered +$100MM in incremental revenue via SEM ad products.
  • Launched Q&A ranking, brought Yahoo's content quality on par with Google, came up with multiple A/B test ideas to improve search quality and user experience.
  • Product Lead for Yahoo's web search relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness program. Led various relevance, content and anti-spam initiatives to deliver tangible gains in actual and perceived relevance.
  • SES and SMX Conference speaker and panelist - spoke on multiple occasions on search engine optimization topics.

Tavant technologies

Technical Lead, Solutions Architect, Client Manager

Nov 2002 – May 2005 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Delivered constraint optimization based pricing software across 50 branches of nation's 5th larget sub-prime mortgage lender.
  • Led the team of 5 engineers through 15 major and over 40 minor zero defect releases

Stratify (acquired by iron mountain)

Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2000 – Oct 2002 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Document Classification and Matching
  • Design and Development of various modules as part of Stratify Discovery System in C++, Win32 API, COM/DCOM, Java/J2EE and Perl
  • Built a suite of integration adapters to bring taxonomy and categorization capabilities to portal environments
  • Built summarizers for pdf/html/word documents
  • Developed a highly optimized, regular expression based search algorithm to extract results from search engines
  • Lead a team of 3 developers to build several standalone applications around Discovery System

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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