Rahul Sharma

CEO

India28 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 25 years of experience in tech and business leadership.
  • Proven track record in building and scaling SaaS businesses.
  • Expert in driving corporate vision and operational excellence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS executive with extensive experience in business development and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team LeadershipStrategic PlanningBusiness Development

Other Skills

StrategySales ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipLeadershipBusinessPre-salesManagementSolution SellingP&L ManagementChannel PartnersPerformance ManagementStrategic Financial PlanningCRMData CenterBusiness Alliances

About

Tech executive with over 25 years of experience, Rahul is a business builder with extensive background and experience in building and scaling businesses. A natural problem solver, Rahul is hands-on when it comes to tackling complex business opportunities and has successfully applied technology at a practical level to drive profitable growth, innovation, productivity, and operational excellence. With a passion for results, he enjoys building, scaling and rapidly growing businesses from grounds up. Experienced in Strategy & Planning, General Management & Leadership and high impact revenue driving roles that touched a great deal of the businesses, the last decade being in SaaS software solutions. With proven record of success driving a corporate vision, strategy & operating plan, - Proven ability to rapidly build business and technical domain knowledge in new and emerging market trends. - Collaborator and Building Top performing teams - Global experience, ability to work in fast growing and large/complex organizations undergoing rapid change. - Deep expertise across multiple market segments, verticals and industries. - Extensive experience in providing leadership to Revenue and customer facing functions from product management, marketing, sales, customer success and business operations.

Experience

28 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Salesforce

VP - Platform, Service Cloud, Heroku and Slack

Feb 2024Jan 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

Jamwant ventures

Investor, Advisor

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · India

Slack

VP & Country Manager

Sep 2021Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru

Team Leadership

Logmein

Vice President & Managing Director - India & South East Asia

Jun 2014Sep 2021 · 7 yrs 3 mos

  • Board position responsible for LogMeIn's go to market functions for India and South East Asia region. My focus is to define & execute growth strategy for LogMeIn's business in the region and leading & manage cross functional teams, engage with customers, partners and build the Eco system for the Company.
Team Leadership

Linkedin

Regional Head

Jan 2012Nov 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Part of the leadership team, building a US$15Mn business for LinkedIn's Talent Solutions business in India. Direct revenue and team accountability for West, North & East India. Helping Enterprises, SMB's transform the way they attract and hire talent by using LinkedIn effectively.
  • Business building responsibilities including developing and executing business strategy to building team to speaking at "Hiring to Win" events focused on driving awareness around LinkedIn's unique offerings,

Wipro infotech

3 roles

National Head - Systems Integration

Apr 2011Nov 2011 · 7 mos

  • Heading National Sales for Systems Integration business for Wipro, a US$30Mn business built on high value SI practices like - Data Center, Network Integration, Platform Integration, Physical Security and IBMS, IDAM, Telecom, IT Security, Contact Center, EMS, Retail Automation and Technology Advisory services.
  • Responsible for creating stable revenue models, Lead and manage sales teams across multiple regions and customer engagements across geographies to lead growth and profitability of the business in India.

Regional Business Head

Promoted

Nov 2008Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Set up the business operations of Central Region (consisting of the states of M.P., U.P., Uttarakhand & Chattisgarh). Led cross functional teams of 150 people involved in various aspects of business like BD & sales, technical support, finance, HR & administration,
  • Responsible for regional growth of the business portfolio of 13 Revenue lines in - 4 Products, 6 Services & 3 Solutions that included business development for revenue lines, operational excellence for Debt, Inventory, Cost of inefficiencies etc, people centric measures for attracting and managing high performance individuals and teams, and owning Executive relationship at CXO layer with Clients and Technology & Business Partners for various engagements
  • Led a transformational growth of the region growing it to a US$15Mn business in less than 3 Years

Regional Business Manager

Sep 2004Nov 2008 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Led Wipro’s manufactured products business for Karnataka & Goa region. Leading a sales team to meet revenue and gross margin targets for Wipro’s edge computing products like Server, Laptops, Desktops, peripherals and Microsoft Software sales business

Hcl infosystems ltd

Business Manager

Jun 2002Aug 2004 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Managing Distributors, channel partners and resellers to meet revenue and gross margin targets from Goa & Maharashtra region. Identifying and recruiting right channel partners to increase channel strength and sales for the entire range of products and services.

Sql systems & services

Business Manager

Jul 1998Jun 2002 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Started and built the Outsourcing & Managed services business unit for SQL, focused on revenues from clients in Middle East, North America and European markets. Set up the complete business operations for the unit, starting from a one man operation to its peak scale of 40 people with $2Mn of annual business.

Quantm ltd.

Sales Manager

May 1995Jun 1996 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • My role was to identify and develop new customers for generating profitable business for QuantM. Responsibilities included identifying and acquiring new customers, planning and achievement of sales plans by way of Services, peripherals and products sales.

Education

The Wharton School

Leadership Development Program — Organizational Leadership

Dec 2024Present

Aligarh Muslim University

Master's Degree — Economics

Jan 1996Jan 1998

Delhi University

Bachelor's Degree — Economics

Jan 1993Jan 1996

Kendriya Vidyalaya

School — Economics

Jan 1980Jan 1992

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