Charu Madan

Charu Madan is a results-driven and dynamic business leader with over 17 years of experience in various roles such as Business Development, Strategic Alliances/Partnerships, Product Management, Product Marketing, Professional Services, and Customer Success. She has worked in Fortune 500 companies and early and late-stage start-ups. Her expertise spans across Hybrid Cloud, Public Cloud, Cloud Business Models, Data Management, Data Protection, Big Data, Analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet, Networking, and Cloud Business Models.

Charu has a proven track record of leading high-performing teams and driving customer outcomes and business results in complex and ambiguous environments. She has built key partnerships with top companies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Splunk, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, MongoDB, DataStax, VMware, Nutanix, Cisco, HPE, GE, Cloudian, Swiftstack, Veritas, and Commvault.

Her educational background includes a Master of Business Administration from Xlri Jamshedpur and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance from Santa Clara University. Additionally, Charu has a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Delhi University.

Charu's professional experience includes serving as the Vice President Partnerships and Strategic Alliances at Innovaccer, former Strategist in Residence at SVEN (Silicon Valley Executive Network), Senior Director and Global Head, Cloud and Tech Alliances at Veeam Software, Director Strategic Alliances at Nutanix, Head of BD at DataTorrent, Director Business Development at Pentaho, Senior IoT Solutions Product Manager at Cisco Systems, Business Development/Strategic Alliance Manager at Cisco Systems, Services Product Manager- Smart Services and Unified Communications at Cisco Systems, Sr Employee Relations Manager at GE Capital, and Employee Relations Manager at Infosys.