An award-winning, creative (stage artist and six patents), multi-lingual (five languages), recognised as Industry Notable making an impact, and accomplished CMO leader, that has strategically positioned companies with amazing messages, and creative demand gen to rapidly increase revenues and brand equity. Demonstrated track record of challenging the status quo, initiating top-performing entrepreneurial programs, and building teams into top-performing powerhouse. Roles before Marketing included Biz-Dev, Product Management and Engineering.
Sandeep has a proven track record of building marketing for unchartered areas, identifying the best approach and hiring the best team and set them for success.
Entrepreneurial experience:
- CMO role: Setup the marketing function and built a high performing GTM team for hypergrowth at Kong. 1,908% Revenue Growth, Leaders Quadrant of Gartner MQ, 28% Share of Voice
- Shifted gears of GTM from mid-market to large enterprises and helping it grow through a successful IPO at MuleSoft
- Leading marketing at a series B funded startup, Piston Cloud and relaunching it and instrumental in getting it through acquisition and integration with Cisco
- Building marketing function for Cloud technology at a mid-size public company, Brocade, from the ground up
- Incubating and executing go to market of an industry-defining technology at a Fortune 100 company, Cisco.
Leadership:
- Leading high-performance global teams: Hired and mentored senior leaders in marketing and led cross-functional global teams
- Player-coach; Knows when to shift: Delegating-Supporting-Coaching-Directing
- Go To Market for Open Source and Enterprise software. Both top-down and bottom-up GTM.