Sushant Rao Email Address

B2B Software Executive Expert in Marketing and Product Management Pronunciation Guide <Soosh-aunth> <rhymes With Wow

DataCore, the Data Infrastructure Software company, is the leading provider of Software-Defined Storage and Adaptive Parallel I/O Software - harnessing today's powerful and cost-efficient server platforms with Parallel I/O to overcome the IT industry's biggest problem, the I/O bottleneck, in order to deliver unsurpassed performance, hyper-consolidation efficiencies and cost savings. The company's comprehensive and flexible storage virtualization and hyper-converged virtual SAN solutions free users from the pain of labor-intensive storage management and provide true independence from solutions that cannot offer a hardware agnostic architecture. DataCore's Software-Defined and Parallel I/O powered platforms revolutionize data infrastructure and serve as the cornerstone of the next-generation, software-defined data center - delivering greater value, industry-best performance, availability and simplicity.

Results-oriented, full stack marketing executive with 20+ years experience leading global teams in companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500. Proven success in building and marketing innovative products that drive revenue (first initial release to $200M+) and deliver value to customers. - Adept at guiding large, cross-functional teams by defining clear goals, determining appropriate metrics, utilizing relevant data for decisions, and adding “just enough” process to meet or exceed company objectives in a repeatable manner - Motivate and develop teams worldwide, most notably coaching an inherited direct report that had below-average performance to a star rating over the course of 2 review cycles - Develop stories/content and integrated marketing plans that raise awareness in the marketplace and efficiently move prospects through the buyer’s journey - Prioritize customer use cases and analyze market trends/competitors to develop a compelling and differentiated product roadmap for on-premise, Cloud and hybrid deployments - Broad technical background to bring R&D / product innovations to market and make them relevant to customers, partners, press/analysts, and sales team. Experienced in a variety of technologies and products, including: Virtualization, Software-defined Storage, Hyperconverged, Databases/Analytics, Cloud (SaaS, Private, Public and Hybrid), Enterprise Management, Messaging/Collaboration, eCommerce, CRM, Machine Learning/Statistical Analysis and Network/Application/Content Security I have an entrepreneur's spirit and focus to get things done, even if it requires a hands-on approach and goes beyond the scope of my responsibilities to achieve company and team success.