Aishwarya Lakshmi

Sales leader | GTM| Business Development | Writing Coach | Speaker | Storage | Sales Champion | Ex-DELL | Ex-HP | Ex-CA

Bengaluru1.5k followers
NetAppex-Amazon Web Services (AWS)ex-Dell Technologies

I drive customers' modernization and innovation agenda, focusing primarily on creating enhanced cloud native solutions for faster GTM. Award winning, Highly skilled, GTM specialist in the Storage, HCI and Cloud.

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Well-rounded expertise from being a Product Leader to Sales & Pre-Sales. I am highly driven & motivated towards Growth & Adoption of Cloud Storage Products. Over 15+ years of experience in the Storage & Product space is what I bring, I am at the leading edge on Cloud Storage & Product. -> Result-oriented approach towards achieving organizational goals and individual goals -> A Focused, hard-working and skilled individual who is quick learner with excellent commitment towards responsibilities. -> ROCK STAR award, MVP awards reiterate my exemplary performance and keeps me motivated. -> 100% storage growth in revenue & adoption year on year -> Consistent top performer for over 4 quarters & MVP awardee. I love building products, I have scaled business and built products in the Women Empowerment space.

Career Timeline

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GTM Index

  1. NETAPPJOB
    1. Google Cloud Sales Special…
      1Y 2M
  2. AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)JOB
    1. Sr GTM SPECIALIST
      1Y 3M
    2. Storage BD
      1Y 8M
  3. DELL TECHNOLOGIESJOB
    1. Presales Product Specialis…
      1Y 5M
    2. Product Specialist - Block…
      3Y 6M
  4. ONEZEEJOB
    1. Product Mgr
      1Y 8M
  5. MAEZSTROJOB
    1. Managing Partner & Product…
      4Y 1M
  6. LSI, AN AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES COMPANYJOB
    1. Lead Storage Specialist
      3Y
  7. HPJOB
    1. Sr Systems Eng
      2Y 5M
  8. CA TECHNOLOGIESJOB
    1. Security Consultant
      1Y 2M

Time in market 23Y 4MOpen 3Closed 9Stints 12

gtmindex.io/p/aishwarya-raaj

  1. Job: NetApp — Google Cloud Sales Specialist · 2025-08 – present · 1y
  2. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Sr GTM SPECIALIST · 2024-04 – 2025-07 · 1y 3mo
  3. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Storage BD · 2022-10 – 2024-06 · 1y 8mo — Define and drive the GTM and storage growth strategy for customers in SMB, Startup, ISV and ITeS segments and partners to adopt and migrate their infrastructure onto AWS. Drive and achieve the segment wise targets to grow AWS Storage Business. Cross-functional collaboration with Sales account teams, Product, Engineering and Solutions to lead conversations about how services can transform our customers’ organizations. Partner with Sales Operations and Partner teams to ensure flawless execution and successful customer engagements.
  4. Job: Dell Technologies — Presales Product Specialist - Storage, HCI and Cloud · 2021-05 – 2022-10 · 1y 5mo — Planning, Design & Architect of virtualization and software Solutions on behalf of customer’s requirements. Introspect customer’s business and administrative needs & Draft of Technical Proposal of solution accordingly. Showcase of Business benefits, Features and ROI Justifications of proposed solutions with the help of Presentations and calculation sheets. Ensuring proposed solution is as per Vendor/Industry best practices and customer needs. Identify deployment scope, translate into business requirements as customer deliverables and ensure project delivery meets expectations. Participate in pre-sales efforts including: technical sales presentations, architecture design discussions, competi…
  5. Job: Dell Technologies — Product Specialist - Block Storage, HCI and Cloud · 2017-11 – 2021-05 · 3y 6mo — Driving in-depth engagement within top commercial accounts and creating new opportunities to enable customers towards digital transformation with focus Key accounts include Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals and IT Industries. Evaluating customer’s existing IT infrastructure and designing cutting edge storage & Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions based on business requirements. Compliance for various tenders and sizing for products associated with solutions and System Integrator (SI) based on IOPS, capacity, throughput and latency. Trusted advisor for customers for their technological needs. Training partners / vendors on the new solutions and technologies. Collaborating with support…
  6. Job: Onezee — Product Manager · 2016-03 – 2017-11 · 1y 8mo — OneZee is a woman's bestie during her life changing motherhood stages to Pre-pregnancy, Pregnancy and infant care. Maternity and childcare hospitals market in India alone is $7.6 billion today and projected to be $27 billion+ by 2020 with a CAGR of 38%. OneZee, Consumer facing app : health tracking, peer sharing, secure storage, discovery portal for service providers - doctors, hospitals & therapists. Platform, Chatbots-AI & big-data based responses to common questions. DocZee, Doctor app and Platform: Doc-Emojis, Rich-Card Status, Expert Conversations.
  7. Job: maeZstro — Managing Partner & Product Manager · 2013-10 – 2017-11 · 4y 1mo — Products in women empowerment and organics space. Product Landscape - Competitive Analysis, target audience profiling, User Stories, User Research. Product Market fit - GTM, Pricing & Packaging.
  8. Job: LSI, an Avago Technologies Company — Lead Storage Specialist · 2008-01 – 2011-01 · 3y — Storage lead for RAID controllers & FC switches. Demonstrated leadership towards team and product prioritisation. Helped file level-1 patents for RAID controllers and hard drives.
  9. Job: HP — Sr Systems Engineer · 2004-11 – 2007-04 · 2y 5mo — Designed & Configured multiple SAN environments. Proficient with HP proprietary storage products. Represented the Train The Trainer program for the HP System Insight Manager, at Sydney.
  10. Job: CA Technologies — Security Consultant · 2003-06 – 2004-08 · 1y 2mo
  11. School: Adhiyamaan College of Engineering — Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Instrumentation & Control
  12. School: HP — Train the trainer, Sydney, SAN and Storage

Skills

Account SegmentationData Storage TechnologiesCloud StorageDeal ClosureEnterprise StorageStorage SolutionsCustomer SatisfactionCustomer RetentionLaunch OperationsWeb ConferencingCase StudiesAttention to DetailOral CommunicationCo-marketingDirect SalesEnablementCommunication TrainingStrategic RelationshipsCommunicationMentoring

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