Pavan Venkatesh

Pavan Venkatesh is a seasoned product management professional with over 14 years of experience in startups and big companies, excelling in product strategy, customer empathy, GTM, and roadmap planning.

Throughout his career, Pavan has successfully launched innovative products such as Cloud Integration, Customer 360, Data Security, Big Data, NoSQL, and Database solutions, with revenue generation ranging from $5m to $100m+ in various ventures.

At Hitachi, he played a pivotal role in transitioning an on-premise company to a SaaS model and developed a SaaS business and cloud portfolio strategy.

During his time at SnapLogic, Pavan led initiatives in iPaaS for various product lines and drove the company's shift towards becoming data-driven with AWS cloud data lake, AI, and ML, significantly increasing bookings.

Pavan's tenure at Protegrity involved defining product and UX strategy for Data Security Products, resulting in a modern user experience and a substantial increase in customer satisfaction and revenue.

He also made significant contributions to DataStax Enterprise by successfully launching key components and driving customer adoption, significantly growing revenue.

Pavan's skill set includes product strategy, financial modeling, GTM strategy, team building, analyst relations, agile execution, sales enablement, and conference speaking, among others.

His technological expertise spans data integration, Data Catalog, Cloud Data Lake, Big Data technologies like Hadoop and Spark, Cloud Data Warehouse solutions, and Databases/NoSQL.

Pavan's educational background includes a BE in Electrical & Electronics, a Product Management course from Stanford, and an MS in Computer Science from Syracuse University.

He has held key positions such as Senior Director of Product Management at Primer.ai, Head of SaaS Platform/Strategy at Hitachi Vantara, and Senior Product Management Leader at SnapLogic, showcasing his leadership and strategic capabilities.