Vasu Jakkal

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San Francisco, California, United States26 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 20+ years in tech across multiple domains.
  • Recognized for building growth businesses and inspiring teams.
  • Recipient of several industry awards for thought leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a CyberSecurity and Marketing expert with extensive experience in tech leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

SecurityMarketing

Other Skills

ComplianceIdentity ManagementPrivacyProduct PositioningCompetitive StrategySemiconductorsGo-to-market StrategyProduct MarketingStrategyDevelopment of strategic marketing plansVLSIEmbedded SystemsSoCComputer ArchitectureIntel

About

Purpose-led, passionate, customer-centric and purpose-driven business leader, able to drive transformation and growth, build inspiring brands, create disruptive thought leadership and bolster modern GTM. 20+ years in tech across business, product/engineering, marketing, strategy and general management in Security, Cloud, CyberSecurity, IoT & Mobility - Inspires change by leading with vision and strategy balanced with driving measurable results - Recognized for building growth businesses and modern, creative and human-centric Go-to-market - Awarded for thought leadership, storytelling & creating content to inspire actions - Track record for driving growth, pipeline and scaling businesses in challenging markets - Values-based leadership philosophy with a passion for inspiring & developing teams to achieve big - M&A experience [15 M&As]; Advisor to Startups; - Recipient of several industry awards & recognitions for being a high impact creative & strategic executive

Experience

Aptiv

Board Member

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs

American india foundation

Board Member

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • The American India Foundation (AIF), a non-profit organization, is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged—with a special focus on women, children, and youth—through high impact interventions in education, livelihoods, and public health. As a binational organization strengthening the bridge between the civil societies of the world’s largest and two most powerful democracies.

Element

Member Board Of Directors

Mar 2021Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos · California, United States

  • Element was founded to help industrial enterprises digitize and drive transformation by extracting more value from the data generated through operations. Element's solution allows industrial enterprises to align and scale critical OT/IT operational data and enables the delivery of high impact, enterprise-wide analytics that improves core business performance outcomes like asset flexibility, security, reliability, safety, and cost.

Microsoft

Corporate Vice President Security, Compliance, Identity, Management & Privacy

Jul 2020Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

  • Responsible for the $20B+ Security, Compliance, Identity, Management & Privacy business and marketing at Microsoft, serving as the Directly Responsible Individual [DRI] to Microsoft CEO & Senior Leadership Team, working across all functions to drive Microsoft's security strategy and growth.
  • Responsible for managing the end to end business, crafting the overall strategy, defining GTM & guiding the execution of all aspects of marketing including product positioning, packaging, industry thought leadership, target customer definition, competitive strategy & tactics; industry analyst engagement, media relations, channel engagement and demand gen well as working closely with engineering on shaping product strategy & roadmaps.
SecurityComplianceIdentity ManagementPrivacyMarketingProduct Positioning+1

Fireeye, inc.

EVP & CMO

Sep 2017Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Milipitas, CA

  • Note FireEye/Mandiant got aquired by Google.
  • Passionate about #fightingevil #changingtheworld with the power of brilliant marketing
  • The rules of engagement in today’s threat landscape are changing rapidly and as cyber-crime evolves, there is a security gap that can be exploited. As our dependency on technology further permeates our daily habits, the threats that exploit the security gap will have graver consequences. Every day at FireEye, we see firsthand the impact of cyber-attacks on real people. This is what inspires us to fulfill our mission to relentlessly protect our customers from the impact and consequences of cyber attacks.
  • Responsible for Global Marketing covering Global Brand, Global Communications (External and Internal), Product and Solutions Marketing, Geo Marketing (Americas, APAC, Japan, EMEA), Global Events, Digital, Demand Gen, Global Operations and Strategy and ADRs/Direct Marketing.
  • Notable Recognitions:
  • 2018 Forbes Next 50 CMO
  • 2018 Women in IT Awards - Women of the Year Shortlist
  • 2018 and 2019 Marketers that Matter Innovators Council
  • 2019 Women in Cyber Security {WiCyS Silicon Valley} Wonder Woman in Cyber
  • 2019 Software Report - Top 25 Women Leaders in CyberSecurity
  • Canadian Cloud Council Digital Consulate

Brocade

Vice President, Corporate Marketing & Strategy

Jun 2014Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Brocade undertook a massive transformation to move from hardware to software-centric that drove a 230% increase in stock valuation in 3 years.
  • Reported directly to CMO. Areas of responsibility across 3+ years covered Strategy, Global Brand & Creative, Thought leadership, Corporate Communications (PR, AR, Social, Video, Exec Comms), MarComm, Market & Customer Intelligence/Analytics, Integrated Mktg, Operations (ROI , Governance, Budget, QBRs) & M&A integration. Partnered with CMO and together with the marketing team drove marketing to be a growth engine for the company. 39% rev growth in IP networking & triple digits revenue growth in sw in 2 years. Marketing Influenced rev increase by 400% ; Over $2B in pipeline opportunity and 7X increase in rev gained per Marketing dollar spent.
  • Notable recognitions:
  • Winner of Marketers that Matter/WSJ award for Brand Campaign & finalist for Transformation Journey.

Lsi corporation

Chief of Staff and Technical Advisor to the CEO and COO (Strategic Initiatives & Marketing)

Apr 2012May 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Jose, CA

  • LSI, a 30 year old semiconductor, undertook a transformation to drive relevance in the Data Center , Cloud and Hyper Scale Datacenter markets by re-hauling product portfolio and investing in growth businesses resulting in the sale of the company at $6.6B to Broadcom.
  • Hired by and reported to CEO and responsible industry narrative, thought leadership, marketing strategies, growth initiatives, executive communications and CEO & COO operations. Co-led the integration of LSI’s acquisition into Broadcom ($6.6B acquisition).

Intel corporation

4 roles

Head of Product Marketing & Product Management, Atom, Embedded and Communications Group

Mar 2010Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Santa Clara, CA

  • Led the marketing & product management of the Atom P&L focusing on SW in a time of transition to drive business growth and get Intel in the consideration set in IoT market segments. Fastest growing product at Intel.

Chief of Staff/TA to Intel VP & General Manager System on Chip Group

Oct 2007Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Santa Clara, CA

  • Chief of Staff to a newly formed 1200+ employee organization chartered to change Intel’s trajectory from PCs and launch Intel into new markets of IoT, Ultra Mobility, Digital Home and Low Cost PCs. GM’s right hand on running the organization and responsible for marketing, strategies, budget and operations and launched Intel’s entry into the SoC market vs incumbent ARM.

Sr Strategic Planner, Ultra Mobility Group

Promoted

Mar 2005Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Santa Clara, CA

  • Shifting markets mandated Intel to do a right hand shift and become relevant in high growth non PC markets and stop competition from gaining market share. Responsible for defining Intel’s lowest power processor roadmap for media and accelerator technologies & GTM strategies to position Intel in high growth consumer & enterprise markets

Engineering Manager and Sr Design Engineer

Aug 1999May 2005 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Santa Clara, CA

  • Held various roles in design engineering, performance architecture and served as an engineering manager for Intel’s Pentium 4 processor – the highest revenue generating BU at that time. Responsible for the Branch Prediction Unit & Front Side Bus. Managed a team of engineers for micro-architecture & design

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Executive Education

Jan 2011Present

University of Minnesota

MS — Electrical Engineering

Jan 1999Present

COEP Technological University

BE — Electrical Engineering

Jan 1997Present

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