#1: Sairam Vedam's journey from being a Coder to Product Manager to Marketing Head

Pathfinder – Growth Stories for Personal Success

Our guest for today’s episode is Sairam Vedam, CMO at Kore.ai, award winning Conversational AI platform. He has worked with Software industry's thought leaders, CEOs and CTOs of enterprise billion$ companies, silicon valley based first generation entrepreneurs with multi exit track record, building billion$ businesses. He is also an External advisor with Bain&Co the leading management and technology consulting firm of global repute. He advises and works in the technology practice at Bain and Co. He has played diverse roles across Engineering, Product marketing & Product management, HR and business management while working with leading organizations like Pramati, Apere (Acquired by Citrix), Office of the CTO at CA, HCL-Cisco. At Cigniti, he lead Global Marketing encompassing the 360 degree Marketing function positioning Cigniti to become the World's second largest Pure play software testing and IP led quality engineering services company. He has been Awarded by BBC Knowledge and CMO Asia as the greatest marketing influencer of 2017. He has received prestigious award from Enterprise IT Magazine as one of the 100 best marketing minds of India in 2018. Also, he has won the Most Influential Marketing Technology Leader award from the World Marketing Congress twice in a row for the years 2016 and 2015. He has completed Masters in Computer Technology| Executive program in Management from IIM-K and Graduated in a leadership program administered by CA technologies for young leaders. He has Mentored a startup which had a successful exit in the FinTech space. Sairam is a frequent speaker at multiple global events across technology, marketing, branding. His LinkedIn articles have been very popular and he has been frequently published on multiple technology & marketing magazines. Sairam’s story will be inspirational for most of the employees who have a vision to achieve C level position and the key is to amalgamate technical expertise with product management, business knowledge and passion for being relevant to the market by being on top of the technological advances and building high performance teams. You can connect with Sairam at, https://www.linkedin.com/in/saivram/ Twitter @saivram --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anil-mishra/message