Akhil Sahai

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Chief Product Officer | Head of Product & GTM | AI/ML, SaaS, Hybrid Cloud leader | Startup Advisor | Strategic Business Growth Champion | Mentored High-Performing Teams | Investor @ Kanverse.ai
Akhil Sahai's Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
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About Akhil Sahai

As an Executive Product Leader with 22+ years of experience, I specialize in building and scaling products and businesses, executing strategic product roadmaps, and leading high-performing teams to manage multi-hundred-million-dollar portfolios. I am passionate about driving organizational success through innovation, achieving record-high customer satisfaction, and rapidly onboarding paying customers to fuel business growth.Key Achievements Include: ✅ As Chief Product Officer at Kanverse.ai, led a 0 to 1 initiative, found product market fit, led the creation of AI and Generative AI-powered automation product suite for Finance, Insurance, and BFS, achieving a 4.7/5.0 customer rating and have onboarded 20+ paying customers so far.✅ At SymphonyAI, led the product strategy and roadmap for an AI-driven IT Management and Enterprise Service Management suite, doubling revenue growth in 1.5 years and earning top customer ratings on Gartner Peer Insights, positioning the product as a market leader in AI-powered ITSM solutions.✅ While at LexisNexis, managed a $250M+ portfolio across EMEA, achieving 10% growth and consolidating product management, marketing, and UX teams across 3 regions.✅ Led a global cross-functional team of 100+ professionals and oversaw a $150M+ Enterprise Solutions Program at HP, focusing on delivering innovative application-driven solutions across Data Management, Big Data, Analytics, and more, contributing to HP's strategic growth in Enterprise-wide Solutions.✅ Led product strategy at Gale Technologies, spearheading the company's positioning as a leading cloud vendor and facilitating its acquisition by Dell within 2 years, resulting in playing a key role in managing Dell's $100M+ Converged Infrastructure product line, driving significant growth and market impact.✅ Pioneered the product strategy and launch of vCloud software at VMWare, including co-formulating a long-term competitive roadmap and enabling the development, positioning VMware as a leader in the cloud infrastructure space.

Akhil Sahai's Current Company Details
Kanverse.ai

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Chief Product Officer | Head of Product & GTM | AI/ML, SaaS, Hybrid Cloud leader | Startup Advisor | Strategic Business Growth Champion | Mentored High-Performing Teams | Investor
Akhil Sahai Work Experience Details
  • Kanverse.Ai
    Chief Product Officer, Founding Member
    Kanverse.Ai Sep 2020 - Present
    San Jose, California, Us
    Serve as an executive leader providing strategic direction for product management and marketing, utilizing AI and Generative AI-powered automation to drive seamless digital transformation for enterprise business processes.• As a founding member, developed and executed growth strategies, identified opportunities in AI Agents for Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), determined product-market fit, and shaped product vision and roadmap.• Led recruitment, development, and mentoring of a high-performing product management and marketing team.• Directed the creation of award-winning AI/ML and LLM/Generative AI-powered automation solutions, specifically targeting Finance (FinTech), Insurance (claims processing), and BFA (KYC/KYB Automation), achieving a 4.7/5.0 rating on Gartner Marketplaces (Capterra, GetApp).• Spearheaded the development of a subscription pricing model, successfully onboarding 20+ paying customers.• Drive brand strategy, messaging, and market positioning, establishing strong presence and recognition within the industry.• Recognized for industry innovation by Gartner and ISG, positioning the company as a leading IDP vendor.• Tasked with going from a 0 to 1 initiative, and executing product strategy, roadmap and plans.
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  • Fast Company Executive Board
    Executive Board Member
    Fast Company Executive Board Aug 2023 - Present
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  • Forbes Technology Council
    Executive Member
    Forbes Technology Council Jan 2019 - Present
    Boston, Ma, Us
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  • Harvard Business Review
    Advisory Council Member
    Harvard Business Review Nov 2023 - Present
    Brighton, Ma, Us
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  • Alchemist Accelerator
    Mentor/Advisor
    Alchemist Accelerator 2021 - Present
    Us
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  • Early Stage Startups
    Advisor
    Early Stage Startups 2017 - Present
    I advise startups on their overall product and business strategy, roadmap, and GTM.
  • Symphonyai
    Chief Product Officer
    Symphonyai 2018 - 2020
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Led Product Management and Marketing for an AI-driven IT Management and Enterprise Service Management suite of products, serving 225+ Fortune 500 and 2000 customers.• Directed the creation of a strategic roadmap for the Symphony AI Enterprise IT product suite, working closely with software and engineering teams to deliver AI-powered solutions such as CINDE (AI Agent framework), Conversational Agent, IT Service Management (ITSM), and IT Asset Management (ITAM) offerings.• Delivered the Symphony AI Summit ITSM product, which received the highest rating in Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for ITSM for two consecutive years (2018, 2019) and consistently thereafter.• Created and executed product strategy that doubled revenue growth in 1.5 years, establishing a strong market foundation.
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  • Lexisnexis
    Chief Product Officer Lexisnexis - Europe, Middle East And Africa
    Lexisnexis Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
    New York City, Ny, Us
    Led a team of 25+ product managers, marketers, designers, and UX professionals, managing a $250M+ portfolio and driving the GTM strategy for SaaS and software-based market-leading products.• Built and implemented a product strategy, vision, and roadmap across the EMEA region acheiving significant growth.• Hired to establish a product management organization, consolidating product management, marketing, and UX resources across offices in Paris, Austria, South Africa, and Dubai under a unified structure.• Leveraged expertise to coach and mentor team members, guiding large teams and portfolios across multiple continents.
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  • Perspica, Inc. (Acquired By Cisco Appdynamics)
    Vp Product Management And Marketing
    Perspica, Inc. (Acquired By Cisco Appdynamics) 2015 - 2017
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Head of Product Management and Marketing at Perspica Inc. Perspica was a SaaS based IT Operations Analytics (AIOps) solution to prevent application performance degradation and outages. Perspica combined advanced machine learning, massively scalable Big Data architecture and deep domain knowledge in TechOps and DevOps to provide a unique, reliable and scalable solution for hybrid cloud environments. Perspica has been acquired by Cisco AppDynamics.
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  • Hewlett-Packard
    Senior Director Of Product Management
    Hewlett-Packard Apr 2014 - Nov 2015
    Houston, Texas, Us
    • Led the Enterprise Solution Program, overseeing the hiring, mentoring, and management of product organization and leading a cross-functional team of 100+, while driving the global strategy, planning, and execution of HP’s $150M+ Enterprise-wide Solutions Program.• Directed the successful delivery of innovative application and software-driven solutions across Data Management, Big Data, Analytics, Client Virtualization, Mobility, Business Continuity, Server Virtualization, and Collaboration, leveraging a broad range of Converged and Hyper-converged infrastructure.
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  • Dell
    Director Of Product Management
    Dell 2010 - 2014
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    Managed $100M+ revenue-generating Converged Infrastructure product line, overseeing a cross-country team of 10+ product managers and led a cross-functional team of sales, services, support, technical marketing supporting GTM, launch, and sales enablement.• Envisioned and enabled a software-centric Converged Infrastructure strategy, accelerated the Dell Active Infrastructure, Active Systems, and accompanying automaton and orchestration software (Active Systems Manager).
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  • Gale Technologies (Acquired By Dell)
    Vice President Of Product Management
    Gale Technologies (Acquired By Dell) 2010 - 2012
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Directed Global Product Strategy and Roadmap at Gale Technologies. Positioned Gale Technologies as a leading Cloud Automation Vendor and led it to a successful acquisition by Dell. Gale Technologies was voted Best of VMWorld 2011 by Virtualization Review, was finalist in Network Products Guide Hot Companies and Best Products Award 2011, and voted Top 20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors by CRN Magazine in March 2012. • Created Vision and Roadmap for Gale Products. Created a phased plan to position our flagship product (GaleForce) as a leading Cloud Automation and Management Product. Conceived and productized a new product in the area of Cloud Analytics (Cloud Scheduler).• Hired product managers and built a cross-country product management team from scratch. Mentored product managers to take substantial roles in defining and leading individual products as owners. • Conceived and productized targeted new solutions for specific customer segments, namely the Turnkey Cloud Offerings by packaging GaleForce with pre-built workflows and customer use cases. Created a specific Turnkey Cloud offering for Flexpod Management. Led successfully the Validation for Management and Automation effort internally and externally with NetApp and Cisco to make GaleForce one of the very few validated solutions in the world.• Recognized as a thought leader. Evangelized and presented, established presence at leading Industry and Analyst events and social media venues. Spoke, delivered keynote and participated in panels at important industry, academic, analyst events (namely, Cloud Expo 2011, IEEE Cloud Computing 2012, Gartner Catalyst Event 2012).• Created a detailed GTM Plan with Channel Partners and set up a Partner Lighthouse Program in conjunction with Sales and Marketing.• Simplified pricing model and put in place new pricing for Gale Products. Created bundled pricing for the Turnkey Cloud packages.
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  • Vmware
    Senior Product Manager, Vcloud And Virtual Appliances
    Vmware 2008 - 2010
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Recruited to develop end-to-end strategy/plan (rated best by IDC) for VMware Studio, Virtual Appliance Marketplace (now Solution Exchange), and VMware Ready partner program, earning recognition and promotion to manage vCloud software.• Transitioned into the vCloud Software Business with a $400M addressable market at that time, and a flagship product now for VMware. Co-formulated a long-term roadmap and competitive strategy, creating product definition and specification, enabling agile development, creating messaging framework, and the launch plan for vCloud Software.
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  • Hewlett Packard
    Senior R&D Manager
    Hewlett Packard 1999 - 2008
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Managed and led International R&D teams of up to 20 people. • Incubated technology and collaborated with multiple HP divisions to transfer various data center management, web services, service and business process management, virtual desktop technologies to create revenue-generating products and services.• Created revenue-generating new products and business units. Helped create a 70+ member Web Service Management Organization (WSMO) and helped establish a Virtual Desktop Systems-based practice at HP Services.
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Akhil Sahai Skills

Cloud Computing Enterprise Software Product Management Virtualization Strategy Cross Functional Team Leadership Start Ups Management Strategic Partnerships Software As A Service Business Development Channel Partners Go To Market Strategy Analytics Sales Enablement Program Management Product Marketing Operations Management Product Development Agile Methodologies Software Development Competitive Analysis Leadership Business Strategy P&l Management Business Alliances Business Intelligence Strategic Planning Integration Marketing Strategy People Management Executives Technical Management Innovation Management Product Innovation Channel Management Channel Programs Product Strategy Partner Management Market Research Machine Learning Data Science Marketing Entrepreneurship Mobile Devices Executive Management It Strategy Sales Team Leadership Project Management

Akhil Sahai Education Details

  • The Wharton School
    The Wharton School
    Entrepreneurial Management
  • Université De Rennes I
    Université De Rennes I
    Computer Science
  • Indian Institute Of Science (Iisc)
    Indian Institute Of Science (Iisc)
    Computer Science And Automation
  • Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
    Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
    Electrical Engineering

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