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Kash Shaikh (pronounced Cash Shake) is a customer-obsessed & metrics-focused transformation executive with experience at Fortune 50 companies such as Dell, Cisco, HPE, and small-cap companies.— CEO & General Management experience in public & private companies profitably growing P&L of up to $2B.— In-depth experience with end-to-end business, & key levers of profitable growth in enterprise software/SaaS & AI infrastructure markets. Recognition• 2023 Best CEO & Best CEO for Women/Diversity Comparably Awards• 2021-22-23 90%+ CEO approval ratings on Glassdoor & Comparably• 2022 Executive of the Year Stevie Gold Award• 2021 Authentic Leader Award by the National Diversity Council• 2017-18-19 Rockstar Leader at Dell, annual employee survey• 2021-22-23 Top 100 Cloud Companies by CRN— Track record of transforming underperforming businesses to profitable growth by installing end-to-end operational rigor across:1. Leadership & Culture: Hired diverse executive leadership teams with experience transforming functions. Also built award-winning servant leadership cultures focused on serving people and customers with humility. Created purpose-driven missions to help connect the dots for employees about what greater good the company performs. 2. Business model transformation to recurring revenue: Transitioned traditional perpetual licenses to on-prem subscriptions, SaaS, Hardware-as-a-service for value creation/annuity. 3. Operational Efficiencies to drive Profitable Growth: Increased margins & profitability by leveraging offshoring, consolidating locations, reducing infrastructure and hosting costs, pricing, and international growth.4. Scaled GTM with strategic partnerships: Transitioned direct, high-touch selling motions to a highly leveraged channel resell and selling to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to acquire new logos. 5. Product Innovation: Transformed legacy point products based on monolithic architecture to modern microservices/containers-based integrated platforms using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), with modular products including Observability, FinOps, AIOps, so customers can simplify management of multi-cloud hybrid IT environments (ITOM). 6. M&A and exits: public and private, both buy-side and sell-side, with successful exits. Acquired and integrated SaaS companies. Creating value by consolidation, driving revenue and cost synergies, accelerating roadmap, and increasing customers/ARR.7. Fundraising: Successfully raised both debt and equity.I believe in lifelong learning for a lifelong career.