Venkat Raghavan

Founder and CEO at Stack Identity

Senior executive with proven mix of outstanding leadership, business, marketing and strategy underpinned by deep technical skills. Highly regarded leader with exceptional interpersonal skills, who fosters culture of innovation, risk taking, collaboration, agility and tenacity – and combines it with outstanding business acumen, strategic thinking, leadership & industry knowledge to achieve success. Rare ability to garner influence, loyalty and respect across entire organization – and across all functional levels – executives, sales, product, engineering, finance and channels. Pioneered deep technical innovation across software eras: e-business Cloud / As-As-Service and Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning/ML. Fortunate to have successfully grown, rebuilt, repositioned and turned around businesses across technology and market transitions. Details • Builder of industry leading innovative products and markets via organic & acquisitive growth • Creating & scaling new products and businesses across technology and market transitions • Rare ability to build sustained category leadership products • Proven, successful leader of large global multi-site, multi-function teams • Building and mentoring high-performance teams & leaders and nurturing talent • Build and leader of software engineering teams with Agile and DevOps. • Strategically developing new businesses and eco systems from early stage technologies • Strong marketer – segmentation, positioning, sales enablement & demand generation • Corporate Strategy, M&A, Negotiations, Contract and acquisition integration • Drive operational excellence through adoption of technology, new processes and analytics. • Exceptional speaker & communicator – industry events, customers, partners, Analysts, internal