Hitesh Wadhwa — CEO
Hitesh leads AI go-to-market (GTM) for Google Cloud's AI products, including Gemini models, AI Agents, Agentspace, Customer Engagement Suite (CES) etc. In his role, he leads a team of AI Sales executives to drive growth and AI adoption at scale across Enterprise customers. In his 19+ years of work experience working at the intersection of technology and business, he has led teams, ran strategic initiatives and scaled enterprise business with various Fortune 1000 customers, Startups and Digital Natives With his expertise in AI, he is also a GenAI Ambassador at Google. He is a public speaker at conferences and events. Prior to Google, he worked at AWS as 'Principal, Enterprise Sales' to grow and scale AWS adoption with large and medium Enterprise accounts. Before AWS, Hitesh worked as VP of Sales, Tech Mahindra, one of the leading GSIs ($7B revenue) where he was responsible for organic and in-organic growth, profitability, account management, partnership management for Strategic accounts. He was also part of the Tech Mahindra "Shadow Board", a team of 6 young leaders selected from 130,000+ employees that shadow the company’s board of directors on various strategic initiatives. Before Tech Mahindra, he has worked with Verizon and CSC (now called DXC Technology) in various account management and technology roles. He was named as a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum for Class of 2021. https://www.weforum.org/press/2021/03/ygl-class-2021/ He has also been chosen by Forbes for "Forbes Business Development Council", an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Sales and Business Development Executives He is Bachelors in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala; and MBA in Strategy & Marketing from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. Key Competencies • AI GTM • Technology Sales • Account Management • Business Development • Partner Management • Telecom, Media & Entertainment • Strategic Partnerships • Customer Success • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Machine Learning • Customer Relationship Management • IT Consulting • Strategy • Data & Analytics • Cloud • web3 • Metaverse
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and AI Sales Leader with extensive experience in enterprise solutions.
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Experience: 19 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (ai)
- Sales Management
- Sales
- Cloud Computing
- Go-to-market Strategy
- Leadership Development
- Account Management
- Software Development
- Engineering
Career Highlights
- Led AI go-to-market strategy for Google Cloud.
- Recognized as Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum.
- Achieved over 160% sales quota at Google Cloud.
Work Experience
Head of AI GTM (1 yr 2 mos)
Strategic Cloud Sales Leader (2 yrs 1 mo)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Principal, Enterprise Sales (11 mos)
Forbes Business Development Council
Forbes Council Member (1 yr 5 mos)
World Economic Forum
Young Global Leader (5 yrs)
Harvard Business Review
Member, Harvard Business Review Advisory Council (11 mos)
Tech Mahindra
Vice President, Sales (1 yr 11 mos)
Client Partner - AVP, Large Enterprise Accounts (3 yrs 7 mos)
Member, Shadow Board (6 yrs 7 mos)
Account Director - Digital Enterprise Services (1 yr 11 mos)
DXC Technology
Account Manager - (Sun Microsystems, Oracle, UnitedHealth Group) (5 yrs 9 mos)
Verizon
Software Engineer (1 yr 10 mos)
Ericsson
Intern (2 mos)
Education
Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century at Harvard University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
High School at D.A.V. College, Chandigarh
