Gaurav Deshpande's Linkedin Analytics

Fair warning: I am not a marketer. I am an engineer who learned marketing along the way :-). I enjoy building winning teams to scale technology startups from series A to Unicorn and beyond. I have scaled three hypergrowth startups, i2 Technologies, Trigo, and TigerGraph . See a summary of my 25+ years in tech here - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beginners-mind-satori-japanese-word-enlightenment-gaurav-deshpande/ 🔹 I am honored to lead the marketing team at HyperTrack, building blocks for workforce and logistics tech builders automating on-demand jobs and workforce. Plan, assign, and track orders for workforce automation bridging across mobile, maps, and cloud with HyperTrack. 🔹 Grew ARR 2.5 times in 9 months at Satori, the world's first DataSecOps (Data Security Operations) platform for securing data access in minutes for the modern cloud infrastructure. 🔹 Teamed up with sales to grow TigerGraph, the only scalable graph database for the enterprise from series A to Unicorn. Scaled the lead base, pipeline, and revenue 20x in three and half years and racked up over 50 awards, including Most Disruptive Startup (Strata 2018), Gartner Cool Vendor 2020 and Leader in Forrester Wave Report for Graph Data Platforms Q4 2020. Graph + AI Summit 2021 virtual conference was attended by over 10,000 data science and business leaders from 180+ companies in the Fortune 500. 🔹 Led IBM's Analytics & AI Portfolio Industry Marketing for Banking, Telecommunications & Media, and Entertainment to drive 60% year-over-year revenue growth 🔹 Built out and positioned IBM Big Data & Analytics portfolio as the market leader (Gartner Magic Quadrant, Forrester Wave) with over 45% year-over-year growth in marketing-created revenue 🔹 Defined and executed a comprehensive strategy to establish WebSphere Product Center as the #1 solution in the Master Data Management (MDM) space leading to acquisition by IBM 🔹 Managed i2’s largest supply chain products from inception to mature product state; these products contribute over 50% of license revenue and 80% of maintenance revenue for i2(now part of Blue Yonder) Industry expertise: Banking, Financial Markets, Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment, Retail, Consumer Products, Semiconductor, Electronics, Automotive, and industrial manufacturing. Specialties: Industry & Product Marketing, Product Management, Marketing Communications, Product Strategy, Buy-build-partner evaluation, Press, Partner, Analyst Relations, and Demand Generation Campaigns.