Rakesh Saigal Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Professional Services Finance and M&A Finance Integration• Build fiscal year revenue burn and capacity models to support forecast, contractor capacity and cost models for planning and forecasting.• Responsible for bookings, revenue, expenses and headcount related to Marketo and Magento business lines (~$6B acquisition value) • Improve revenue margin through expense rationalization and realignment of headcount resources. • Finance lead to integrate Marketo and Magento in all geographies worldwide. • Responsible for the evaluation and process implementation of acquired businesses into Adobe’s financial operations and reporting requirements.

Santa Clara, Ca

Global Services Finance• Managed OPEX for Internet of Things, Global Operations, Executive Team, Customer Success and Global Support.• Analyzed headcount and expense tracking for forecast versus plan along with variance analysis.• Finance lead for investment analysis in Global Delivery Center in India for 600+ headcount • Built SQL and VBA tools to combine and analyze HC and transactional data from multiple sources; Anaplan planning setup for Global Services • Bonus and Recognition Awards for managing critical activities during reorganization

San Francisco Bay Area

Worldwide Revenue Group • Liaison between finance and technical organizations to manage the development and implementation of Intel’s $16B global revenue reporting system for quarter close activities. • Responsible for system enhancements and its accuracy in revenue reporting, stakeholder management of more than 20+ Finance partners worldwide • Analyze and deep dive into revenue recognition for direct and disti customers, and implement new ASC-606 revenue guidelines.

San Francisco Bay Area

Intel Security Group (McAfee)• Manage OPEX for Engineering, Sales and Marketing groups with a HC of ~1300 and a budget of $200M/year• Manage Headcount and OPEX plans for new business units and lines of business. • Perform monthly and quarter analysis of business activities for business partners, forecasting and researching variances, guidance and recommendation on budgeting, expense tracking and goal setting• Deep dive into procurement processes to reduce tax implication and recover paid taxes of over $150k

Palo Alto

• Investment Banking on the M&A sell-side advisory in the technology sector. Client focus included: SaaS, Big Data, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure. • Evaluated SaaS metrics (ARR, Churn, CLTV) for revenue valuation and industry trends• Prepare client presentations, build VBA tools for analysis• Conduct market research and identify industry trends using Gartner and IDC reports. • Identify potential buyers and investors, prepare marketing materials, coordinate communications and presentations with Corporate Development teams and Venture Capital Firms.

Oakland, Ca

Managed more than 40+ specialized consulting projects with a combined value of more than $100M+ -- Led critical infrastructure design and construction support for California Public Utilities-- Led financial risk evaluation of real estate for US Federal Emergency Management Association; The cost/benefit analysis validated the purchase of $10+M worth of real estate by FEMA -- Wrote 3000+ lines of Excel VBA code for a Tech company’s worldwide environmental program management-- Authored the “Public Works and Engineering” plan for the Office of Emergency Services of Contra Costa County. Plan was blueprint to mitigate disruption in water supply distribution in the event of an earthquake. -- Awarded medal for the exceptional work in the management and design of $30M Pearl Harbor Tunnel Project in Hawaii. The tunnel is used by the US Navy for refueling the entire US Pacific Fleet-- Lead engineering support for Seismic Retrofit of Water Tank for City of Palo Alto -- Lead engineering support for Seismic Retrofit of Pipelines for Alameda County Water District-- Lead for risk assessment of Delta Levees in Sacramento Delta for California Department of Water Resources-- Build XL automated tool for NASA's pilot project on renewable energy

Oakland, Ca

-- Advised Sonoma County Agency on their strategy to implement Capital Improvement Program for their water utility system for 600,000 customers-- Assessed potential of Oil and Gas platforms for offshore wind turbines-- Build models for risk assessment of water transmission lines -- Published and presented paper at renewable energy conferences in Houston and San Diego

New Delhi Area, India

- Developed India’s 1st hurricane data set which was used to build a vulnerability model to mitigate risk to life and property- Excel VBA code and SQL Access Programming to evaluate risk for insurance portfolios- Led a 10-day Hurricane damage assessment in the State of Orissa, India

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance And Strategy

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd)