Rajesh Soundar Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Leading Google Cloud's global $xxxM Commercial Distribution business, which drives GCP and Google Workspace acquisition, encompassing xx Distributors and xxK partners across 192+ countries.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Leading Google Cloud's SMB SI $xxxM GCP partner business

Washington, Dc, Us

It is a tremendous honor to serve on the Board of the American Red Cross Silicon Valley, which serves the critical needs of more than 1.9 million Santa Clara County residents.Member, Disaster Cycle Services CommitteeMember, DEI Committee

Cambridge, Ma, Us

MIT’s premier institute for entrepreneurship, providing the expertise, support, and connections MIT students need to become effective entrepreneurs -- serving all MIT students, across all schools, across all disciplines.https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/profile/rajesh-soundar/

Boston, Ma, Us

Since 1994, ATASK has helped annually over ~1K Asian survivors of domestic violence in the greater Boston and Lowell areas through an emergency shelter and culturally accessible resources across forty distinct Asian languages.

Boston, Ma, Us

We are a Venture Capital firm and community of MIT alumni investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. We raise capital from MIT alumni and invest in alumni-led startups. We are private, for-profit, and not part of (but friendly with) MIT.Every year, we seek approximately 20-30 investments spanning industry, stage and geography. We co-invest alongside established venture firms and private equity lead investors. We are part of Alumni Ventures Group, the #1 most active venture investor in the US and #6 most active in the world as per Pitchbook 2020 Global League Tables. Our portfolio continues to grow rapidly, now at over ~800 companies.

Growth, Strategy & Operations management consulting serving C-level executives at IaaS/PaaS/SaaS startups and turnarounds to Fortune 50 firms.- Sample engagements:► $300M cloud-based Customer Experience Management SaaS firmRole: Go-to-Market Consultant for Chief Revenue OfficerIntroduced data-focused rigor delivering an actionable GTM, Sales Operations, Enablement, and Turnaround plan for the Chief Revenue Officer, VP GTM and VP Sales Operations► $22B Specialty Risk & Reinsurance arm of AXA (description below)Role: Strategy & Operations Consultant for Chief Data Officer. Invited to and joined as SVP, Head of Data Oversight & Chief of Staff to Chief Data Officer► $5M Digital task & change management enabling SaaS firm Role: Go-to-Market Consultant for CEO

Paris, Fr, Fr

Joined as FTE on AXA XL's Enterprise Data leadership team, reporting to the Chief Data Officer, transforming the Commercial Business ($22B of the $160B AXA business) with next gen data and digital capabilities.Scope: Owned Enterprise Digital Transformation adoption for digital strategy and newly-launched cloud data ecosystem/multi-sided digital platform to accelerate value capture across 32 operational processes and 52 countries. Co-created digital products for commercial lines across AXA Global. - Global team responsibility between US and India with 2 Vice Presidents, Director, executive oversight over Enterprise Data India team (~80 FTEs), Deloitte/Slalom Consultants, including Pulitzer-Prize nominated Content consultant. - Chief of Staff for AXA's Chief Data Officer, responsible for data-related communications, Culture & people programs, Special projects/programs, operational efficiency for 28 data-focused Centers of Excellence, organized and facilitated all executive data leadership weekly meetings, QBRs, Leadership Offsites, and global events. Served team spread across two US offices, UK, Poland, Gurgaon and Bangalore. - Co-developed AI/ML products across insurance value chain- In collaboration with EDS leadership and AXA constituents, facilitated complex post M&A integration of XL Catlin's and AXA's data functions, organizational design and business planning efforts. - Executive leader managing a Director who led "Data Content Strategy & Change Management" CoE, responsible for enterprise data journalism for data group (US,UK, Poland, India), wider firm, and external market

Paris, Fr, Fr

Joined AXA XL's Enterprise Data leadership team reporting to the Chief Data Officer. Client of Soundar Consulting Group, LLC.

Berlin, Berlin, De

As the only RVP at the firm, reported to the VP Global Sales encompassing a dual role of sales leadership; first, achieving 191% team goal for FY17 by hiring, training, and managing Acrolinx's first, formal inside sales function in MA and Berlin, Germany, supporting global field sales; and second, leading US Western Region field sales function, incl. Account Management, Customer Success, and Partner ecosystem. As a special project, championed innovative, data-driven approach to Customer Success by hypothesis testing/creating linear regression model in R inferring that higher Acrolinx KPIs lead to higher customer CSAT. Invited and worked with customer (Paypal) for analysis, which was a success.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Executive leadership member and sponsor reporting to the MD/CEO for Google-backed Sama. Led global Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Partnership organizations, encompassing a business with ~2,500 FTEs across the US, India, Africa, and Haiti. Resigned upon acceptance to MIT; moved to MAServing 25% of the Fortune 50, Google-backed Samasource's platform offers image, video and sensor data annotation and validation for machine learning algorithms in industries including automotive, navigation, AR/VR, biotech, agriculture, manufacturing, and e-commerce.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Pioneered SaaS-based, native enterprise mobile apps for end-user digital engagement.Executive leadership team member and sponsor reporting to the CEO. Led sales organization (direct & partner ecosystem), through to acquisition by Persistent Systems.Investors included Nexus Venture Partners, Elevation Partners, Floodgate, Inventus Capital Partners, and the founder of PoshmarkVice President, Sales (Feb 2015 - May 2016)Sr. Director, Sales (Mar 2012 - Jan 2015)Director, Sales (Jan 2012-Mar 2012)https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/persistent-systems-strengthens-platform-for-digital-experiences-574493741.html

Consultant, Board member, and Advisor to leadership teams on business model innovation, digital marketing, and customer strategy focused on the SaaS & Cloud sectors. Mentor to early-stage startups. Member, Board of Advisors (Mar 2016 - Mar 2017)Lumium, Inc. Strategy and direction for CEO in expanding Lumium's design portfolio into enterprise marketing departments.Consultant (Oct 2013 - Sep 2014)Quest2Excel, Inc. (Q2E) Recruited to help launch SaaS gamification startup by two F50 executives, Mahesh Rao, Business Transformation Leader, & George O'Meara, former SVP, Services, leading Cisco System's $6B Services groupAdvisor, Senior Management & Board of Directors (Nov 2010 - Dec 2012)Sensible Software, Ltd.Developed NA GTM Strategy for SaaS Project Management tool called BootstrapTodayAdvisor (Sep 2008 - Dec 2008)The Spark Fund LLC Specialized investment fund focused on strategic cross-border investments between India and the US in two highly-targeted areas - real estate and expansion capital.

*Acquired by Bynder*SaaS Distributed Marketing platform for customers like Coca Cola, Mercedes Benz, and DanaherReported to CEO Kristof Vereenooghe (currently CEO of EV Box). Co-launched the NA market, co-managed it, hired and led the NA sales team; developed and executed NA Go-to-Market strategy and credited as instrumental to our acquisition by the CEO; managed business development and NA partner ecosystem including ISVs, SIs, Resellers, and data partners. Expanded our largest global account with Toyota/Polk Automotive, leveraging Luma's SaaS platform to deliver millions of Toyota recall notices through Shutterfly print plants in Phoenix and North Carolina.

Co-founded and launched Northbound DGS, leading all Sales functions reporting to CEO/President. Scaled services revenue from $0 to multi-million dollar run rate w/ P&L responsibility. Sourced/closed first 22 consulting engagements (Advent, Adobe, Pillar Data, Informatica, etc.), in parallel hired, trained, and managed 40+FTEs. Clients included Adobe, Coupa, Riverbed, Informatica, SAP, Microsoft, Open Text, Sitecore, Sage, Disney, Enterprise Rent-a-car, GE, Allegiance, Juniper Networks, Cisco, and AT&T.Northbound DGS was the leading revenue and brand agency specializing in developing Go-to-Market strategy and organizations around sales, customer success, demand marketing and channel. Expertise in SaaS, cloud technologies and cutting-edge digital and software technologies.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

99% quota attainment. #3 in new hires based on performance in two quarters. #1 presentation winner out of cohort of 34 new hires.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Interwoven was acquired and became part of HP Autonomy.- Account Executive - Corporate, Accounting, & Government (Feb 2008-Jan 2009)- Account Executive - Global Capital Markets (Oct 2007-Feb 2008)- Corporate Sales Representative (Sep 2006 - Oct 2007)

London, Gb

Sr. Account Executive & Asst Manager (Jun 2004 - Sep 2006)Account Executive (Jun 2003 - Jun 2004)

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Cross-Registrant From Mit

B.S., Finance

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