Raj Venkat

Cloud Innovation & AI Data Platform

New York3.2k followers
Oracleex-Okta, Inc.ex-Webmasters LLC Dubai

Over 20 years of Strategic Enterprise Cloud Technology Selling Experience to Board Executives and C-Suite; Obsessed with working backwards from customer outcomes to achieve mutual business objectives; co-innovate with a customer’s “art of possible” opportunity; Advocate Empathy…

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  1. ORACLEJOB
    1. AI Data Platform GTM Lead
      8M
    2. Strategic Client Dir
      2Y 7M
    3. Global Strategic Client Dir
      1Y 2M
    4. Area Leader, Cloud/Systems…
      1Y 8M
    5. Sr. Field Client Executive
      3Y 10M
    6. Regional Mgr
      1Y 7M
    7. Team Lead, Hardware BD
      2M
    8. Sr Systems Business Consul…
      2Y 6M
  2. OKTA,JOB
    1. Strategic Account Dir
      5M
  3. AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)JOB
    1. Global Client Dir, Mid-Ent…
      3Y 5M
  4. WEBMASTERS LLC DUBAIJOB
    1. Business Consultant
      7M
  5. DELL TECHNOLOGIESJOB
    1. Sr Sales Consultant
      2Y 6M

Time in market 21Y 3MOpen 2Closed 11Stints 13

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  1. Job: Oracle — Team Lead, Hardware Business Development · 2011-01 – 2011-03 · 2 mo
  2. Job: Okta, Inc. — Strategic Account Director · 2021-11 – 2022-04 · 5 mo — Coach and Partner C-Suite at Large Enterprises to accelerate innovation and achieve new business outcomes by re-inventing Security architecture. Relentlessly, focus on the art of possible with Information Security as the enabler to building next generation customer experiences.
  3. Job: Webmasters LLC Dubai — Business Consultant · 2008-01 – 2008-08 · 7 mo — Responsible for Lead Generation & Pre Sales activity in the Microsoft Dynamics Business Unit with focus areas- Retail, Financial Services, Food and Restaurant chains.
  4. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Global Client Director, Mid-Enterprise · 2018-05 – 2021-10 · 3y 5mo — Global Enterprise Client relationship Management with focus on Telco/Cloud Communication providers (UC/CC/CPaaS, AI/ML), Capital Markets/Exchanges, and Digital Native Businesses. Accelerate customer's board level business objectives using the innovation of AWS platform. Leverage Amazon's leadership principles and working backwards mechanism to deliver results & accelerate combined business outcomes. Prospect, Ideate, and, Co-develop new revenue streams with C-Suite, by aligning Pan-Amazon strategic customer programs to customer's growth objectives; Deliver results led by digital transformation efforts {$10MM-$250M sized contracts} by leveraging industry's best in class cloud toolset like "C…
  5. Job: Oracle — Sr Systems Business Consultant · 2008-08 – 2011-02 · 2y 6mo — Work with the North American Account team to penetrate into new accounts/customers and existing Sun customers to drive Oracle hardware revenue. This includes Enterprise Server, Storage and Tape revenues. Territory focus is East(NY,NJ,CT,VA,MD,FL)
  6. Job: Oracle — Sr. Field Client Executive · 2012-10 – 2016-08 · 3y 10mo — Responsible to drive a multi million dollar sales quota in the NJ/NY territory for Oracle's Database, Middleware, and Analytics Engineered Systems Portfolio. Build Executive Relationships, Identify business problems that can be solved by Oracle's co-engineering strategy, educate customers about Oracle's unique ability to deploy Private & Public cloud and offer Cloud Insurance
  7. Job: Oracle — Regional Manager · 2011-03 – 2012-10 · 1y 7mo
  8. Job: Oracle — Strategic Client Director · 2023-07 – 2026-02 · 2y 7mo — Co-innovate and co-develop the future of Retail/Grocery/E-Commerce with a differentiated, rapidly iterative global technology platform. Responsible to elevate strategic partnerships with multiple clients- 98Y old World's largest convenience business, 118Y old Most Popular and Largest grocery business (physical/digital) in Texas and a 121Y old department store chain
  9. Job: Dell Technologies — Sr Sales Consultant · 2005-07 – 2008-01 · 2y 6mo — Drive Sales Revenue for Dell UKI Home and Small Business Sales with focus on Margin against a revenue target, Sales techniques: Upselling and Crosselling techniques.
  10. Job: Oracle — Area Leader, Cloud/Systems Infrastructure · 2016-09 – 2018-05 · 1y 8mo — Lead a mid market team of field account managers in Oracle's cloud infrastructure group with a $10M P&L. Go to market strategy- help customers accelerate deployment of a modern hyper scale infrastructure that delivers/mimics a true private cloud, and, ready to scale in the public cloud when desired. While scale is an important element for future, the infrastructure blocks are not just a commodity but true building blocks for workload specific compute/storage/network. They are committed to providing resiliency & security with unmatched performance for Enterprise Databases, Applications & virtual workloads. Ultimate outcome: a happy customer. Continuously coaching my team to help them articul…
  11. Job: Oracle — Global Strategic Client Director · 2022-04 – 2023-06 · 1y 2mo — Own the Oracle relationship globally for one of the world's largest Semiconductor and High Tech Software company. Steer partnership and establish trust at the highest levels to achieve game changing business outcomes. Align, Lead, and Empower a global sales account team (20+) to consistently deliver on digital transformation opportunities for both the "Customer" and "Oracle". Helping C-suite align with peers (internal and external) so they can rapidly reinvent on their customer outcomes and achieve board objectives by leveraging standards and best practices.
  12. Job: Oracle — AI Data Platform GTM Lead · 2026-02 – present · 6 mo — I work at the intersection of AI, telecom/media, and revenue transformation. As Oracle’s AI Data Platform GTM Lead for Verizon, I help architect the next chapter of Communication - where networks become intelligent platforms and data becomes a monetizable asset. My career has been built around one principle: co-creating new revenue streams with customers. I’ve led global strategic teams, scaled ARR 5X, influenced $358M+ in cloud commitments, and partnered with C-suites to modernize legacy platforms into AI and Cloud-ready ecosystems. Today, my focus includes: ✔ AI-powered telecom services ✔ Edge + multicloud orchestration ✔ Data platform modernization ✔ Executive-level growth strategy ✔…
  13. School: Raipur Institute of Technology — Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Telecommunications

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Pre-salesStorageLead GenerationSolution SellingServersSales OperationsCloud ComputingChannel PartnersProfessional ServicesEnterprise SoftwareCRMBusiness DevelopmentSalesSaaSAccount ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)

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