
Hrishikesh S.
Marketing and ClimateTech Track Co-Chair- TiEcon at TiE Silicon Valley
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• Passionate leader driving strategy, innovation, and growth in Cloud, Storage, GenAI and ClimateTech industry.
• 25+ years of experience across Product, Strategy, Marketing, Engineering, and Leading teams
• My superpowers are networking, building partnerships, and strategic thinking
• Scout for innovation, align customers and internal stakeholders and drive proof of concept to commercialize innovation.
• Explored new markets, built innovative products, and realigned business models to markets to drive new growth.
• Identified customer pain points and drove a solution to give them an edge to become a market leader
• Foster Partnerships with customers, eco-system players, and internal stakeholders to drive growth for all parties.
• As a Chief of Staff, took ownership of EVP's strategic projects, evaluated options, and drove them to success
• Built a high-performance team to automate workflow, scale operations, and reduce time to market.
• Social Impact investor: Invest in programs that provide basic needs (food/water) for low-income children so they attend school instead of working as a child labor
• Social Impact investor: Invested in the production of a breakthrough film to normalize LGBTQ+ stories as a part of mainstream Bollywood
• Set historical precedence, challenged societal mindset, and made a bold political statement by openly marrying my husband in Yavatmal, a small town in India, to set a new bar for the LGBTQ+ community to follow
𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬
• Hiking
o Hiked for 15 years in over 20 countries
o Organize monthly hikes for IIT-BayArea to build a network and strengthen the community
• Photography
o I have taken landscape, event, and portrait photography for over 35 years in all the 45 countries I have visited.
o Created awareness and pull via social media for the different nonprofit organizations I served via creative photography
• Traveling
o Solo traveler to 45 countries who goes off the beaten path to connect with the local culture, history, food, architecture, and people
o Insatiable curiosity to always learn, and expand the horizon
o Seek out unique experiences during travel such as bungee jumping, parasailing, and tandem skydiving
Education
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Marketing/Strategy and Business Development
2008 - 2011
Iowa State University
Electrical Engineering
1997 - 1999
Skills
Project Management
Product Marketing
Go-To-Market Strategy
Marketing
Product Management
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