Amit Thapliyal — CEO
Amit is a seasoned marketing leader with almost 2 decades of diverse cross-vertical experience, who has solved enterprise complexity at scale and cracked the ROI–impact equation- with a keen focus on business outcomes and expertise in brand storytelling. His journey: has been unique in many ways, traversing sales, growth, product & marketing functions. Leadership emerged at an eealry stage, and baptism by fire-being born into the early SaaS days. He managed complexity & scale at HCL, where he created multi-million-dollar product & brand portfolios of B2B Digital Enterprise, VAS & B2C mobility products. Deftly balancing brand portfolio growth & enterprise revenue with the scale of B2C channels & eCommerce. He has managed concept to market chaos at startups as a founding member & hyperscaled VC-funded digital SaaS company Vinculum, taking them from Series B to E. At Altudo, he consulted Fortune 500 companies, orchestrated GTMs for global brands like Sitecore & Similarweb. Currently: he is scaling brand & growth leadership at PeopleStrong- delivering 3X YOY growth, successful GTMs in SEA, ANZ, MEA, emerging as one of the only few profitable HCM SaaS , and leading to the recent acquisition by Goldman Sachs. He thinks: about marketing as a trifecta of Wallet/Marketshare, Mindshare & Value. He believes in close cross-functional collaboration to build an integrated communication strategy that supports every stage of the client journey—from pre-sales togrowth and retention. Amit has been an active speaker, panelist at numerous industry events, has published articles , blogs in leading publications. He is also a proud founding member of BMAX - B2B Marketing Advisory & Exchange: a collective of top marketing leaders, an advisory council for B2B marketers. As a person: he is an avid reader, music buff, loves road trips , sarcasm & believes in- "Love or Let Die, Do or Dont Try
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing leader with extensive experience in B2B and digital marketing strategies.
Location: Delhi, India
Experience: 21 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Marketing Leadership
- Product Marketing
- Digital Marketing
- Gtm Strategy
- Account Management
- Sales
Career Highlights
- Delivered 3X YOY growth at PeopleStrong.
- Consulted Fortune 500 companies at Altudo.
- Founding member of BMAX, a B2B marketing advisory.
Work Experience
PeopleStrong
Senior Vice President - Marketing (2 yrs 3 mos)
Vice President - Marketing (3 yrs 4 mos)
Altudo
VP Marketing (1 yr 4 mos)
Global Marketing Director (10 mos)
Vinculum Solutions Ltd.
Head- Marketing & Digital Initiatives (4 yrs 1 mo)
HCL Infosystems Ltd
National Manager-Product Marketing & Management (3 yrs 6 mos)
Xavient Information Systems
Sr. Manager- Marketing (1 yr 4 mos)
Corbus
Marketing Manager-Business Group (1 yr 6 mos)
OneSource Information Services
Account Manager –North India & Global Key Accounts (1 yr 3 mos)
InfoEdge India Ltd.
Asisstant Manager-Corporate Sales (1 yr 7 mos)
IBM Daksh
STS (1 yr)
Education
Chief Growth Marketing Officer at Indian School of Business
MBA at Pune University
BIS(H) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
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