Kash Iftikhar

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Senior Vice President and General Manager at Oracle @ Oracle
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San Francisco, California, United States, United States
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About Kash Iftikhar

A results oriented Senior Executive and an entrepreneur, with 20 years of diverse experience building and leading high performance sales, business development, services, solution architecture, product management, channels and operations teams. Led the exponential revenue growth in a public cloud company, transformed and grew the business in Fortune100 company, and built business from scratch and grew them rapidly for innovative early stage and late stage startups. I am passionate about technology, and how it can help transform organizations. I have strong skills across cloud (IaaS/PaaS), security, applications, integrations, SaaS, infrastructure, data management and analytics. Oracle technologies migrations to cloud - Database, Exadata, PeopleSoft, Siebel etc. Opensource projects Kubernetes, Openstack, IOvisor (SDN/NFV), Docker, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, etc. Building applications on the cloud.Approach to growing the business - Focus on customers and partners. Build trustworthy relationships and deliver. Exceptional relationships with CXO's, senior business and tech leaders and builders (engineers, devs, ops). Leveraged strong analytic and technical skills, and took on challenges as the first/early leader on board to unlock complex sales and GTM challenges. Competitive, compassionate and strategic. Believe in delivering results while fostering teamwork. Managed P&L and hired diverse and multicultural teams globally across Americas, EMEA, JAPAC. Throughout my career, I have been responsible for aggresively growing teams from a few tens, to hundreds in a short span of time to meet growth objectives. Believe in constant learning. MBA from Columbia Business School and from UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School. MS degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.

Kash Iftikhar's Current Company Details
Oracle

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Senior Vice President and General Manager at Oracle
Kash Iftikhar Work Experience Details
  • Oracle
    Senior Vice President And General Manager
    Oracle Jun 2022 - Present
    Austin, Texas, Us
  • Oracle
    Vice President / General Manager
    Oracle Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Oracle Cloud Services and Oracle Advanced Services portfolio for North America. Manage entire P&L for a $600M+ business. Responsible for sales, delivery, business development, engineering resources.
  • Oracle
    Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Oracle Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Leading GTM, business development, product strategy and business growth for Oracle's Generation 2 public cloud. Exponential growth of the platform over the past 2.5 years. Customer and partner engagement for the business unit.
  • Fetch.Ai
    Advisor
    Fetch.Ai Feb 2019 - Present
    Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb
    A dynamic, fast-growing international team of experts and forward-thinking technology enthusiasts working on the convergence of blockchain, AI and multi-agent systems. We are building technology for both today and tomorrow - a collective super-intelligence on top of decentralized economic internet built with a highly scalable next-generation distributed ledger technology. Combined with machine learning, this delivers the predictions and infrastructure to power the future economy.
  • Plumgrid (Acquired By Vmware)
    Global Vp Sales, Business Development & Service Operations
    Plumgrid (Acquired By Vmware) Oct 2012 - Dec 2016
    Responsible for all Product Strategy, Global Sales, Business Development, Services, Channels and GTM-Strategy for PLUMgrid.PLUMgrid is a leader in software defined networking and security/microsegmentation for clouds. The ONS product is used by multiple cloud service providers, enterprises, service providers and financial customers to build and automate clouds that are highly available, secure and compliant. - First Executive Team leader to define and execute the sales/partner plan & product pricing strategy- Helped raise Series B and C financing with the Executive Team - Grew the software subscription revenue from $0 to multi-million ARR business- Closed one of the largest SDN/NFV deals at a major European Telco- Drove revenue and executed strong customer results with Fortune500 and Tier1 Telco's- Deployed, piloted and upgraded more than 70 clouds running legacy and microservices stacks across multiple enterprise and telco customers- Established PLUMgrid presence (direct/with partners) in key geographies – USA, Japan, EMEA, China, MiddleEast- Drove all worldwide OEM and partner agreements for enterprise private cloud sales (IaaS, PaaS) - RedHat, RackSpace, Canonical, Docker, F5, Accton (AWCloud, 99Cloud), SHI and others- Drove the GTM and Sales motions with key Telco/NFV equipment providers (Ericsson, Quanta+Redhat NFV stack, Canonical vCPE stack, NEC, others)- Built the entire sales, channel and systems engineering organization (0-20+)- Created reference architectures with Container, OpenStack & VMware private/hybrid cloud solutions- Developed a 24X7 support center- Grew the professional services revenue and built a team of DevOps engineers to support key customer engagements
  • Dell
    Head Of Dell Business Unit - Americas
    Dell Jan 2011 - Sep 2012
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    - General Management responsibility for $400M networking business at Dell post Force10 acquisition (Enterprise, Service Provider, SMB, Federal)- Team of 300 Sales leaders, sales executives, consulting engineers, inside sales and channels- Directly accountable for revenue, GTM, strategy and product integration- Managed a team of Sales, Sales Engineering & Inside sales organization- Managed the integration of Force10 and Dell networking teams. Meanwhile added significant headcount to support the combined business and growth objectives- Created Dell joint solutions with Server & Storage teams to accelerate the “network attached” business
  • Force10 Networks (Acquired By Dell)
    Vice President - Americas
    Force10 Networks (Acquired By Dell) Oct 2009 - Jan 2011
    - Responsible for a $120M business comprised of US, Canada and LATAM territory- Provided strategic direction for Asia & EMEA business- Managed a team of 95 sales executives, channels managers, sales engineers & inside sales personnel- Delivered one of the largest, most strategic deal at global cloud provider that was instrumental in the acquisition of the company - Major Accounts – Microsoft, Equinix, Level3, Salesforce, Facebook, Yahoo, Verizon, F5, Zynga, Craigslist, F5, DOE, ESPN, AT&T, TWC, Ebay, State/LocalGov, Gov HPC Labs … others
  • Force10 Networks
    Regional Vice President - West Us
    Force10 Networks Oct 2008 - Oct 2009
    - Managed the West Coast Sales Operation (California, Washington, Oregon, Denver, AZ and British Columbia)- Managed a team of Regional Sales Directors, Account Managers Sales Engineers & Inside Sales - Built value added reseller and 2-tier distribution with established resellers like Dell, Qwest, Agilysys etc.- Key Business Verticals: Internet, social media, semiconductor, healthcare, gov/ed, software, retail- 2010 – 3 quarter achievement 110% of plan- 2009: 152% of plan – Top RVP of the year
  • Force10 Networks
    Director Sales - Strategic Accounts
    Force10 Networks Jul 2006 - Oct 2008
    - Handpicked to manage product and service bookings for Force10’s most strategic customers - Won largest net new accounts in the company’s history - Drove one of the largest deal in the companies history (Total bookings >$25M+)- Signed up 8 resellers in the Bay Area to extend company’s presence in mid-tier enterprise accounts- Built strategic relationships with top server & virtualization solution providers (Dell, HP, VMware, Oracle, Sun, F5)- Developed the Enterprise Data Center Strategy for the company- Trained the company in competitive strategies and Data Center solution selling- Key Customers: Google, Salesforce, Oracle, Sun, Kaiser, Zynga, Ebay, NetApp, Craigslist, American Express- Top Performer - 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Cisco Systems
    Regional Sales Engineering Manager
    Cisco Systems May 2004 - Jul 2006
    San Jose, Ca, Us
  • Cisco Systems
    Global Systems Consultant
    Cisco Systems 1999 - 2004
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    CCIE # 6062Managing Strategic Cisco Accounts in Bay Area and West Coast

Kash Iftikhar Skills

Cloud Computing Go To Market Strategy Data Center Saas Business Alliances Enterprise Software Solution Selling Virtualization Product Management Managed Services Storage Channel Openstack Sales Management Business Development

Kash Iftikhar Education Details

  • Columbia Business School
    Columbia Business School
    Finance
  • University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business
    University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business
    Turnarounds - M&A
  • Purdue University
    Purdue University
    Electrical And Computer Engineering

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Kash Iftikhar attended Columbia Business School, University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business, Purdue University.

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Kash Iftikhar has skills like Cloud Computing, Go To Market Strategy, Data Center, Saas, Business Alliances, Enterprise Software, Solution Selling, Virtualization, Product Management, Managed Services, Storage, Channel.

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