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I'm Bhushan Ekbote

Founding Revenue Operations Leader | Advisor | Investor

Bhushan has over 15 years of experience in Revenue Operations field with focus on establishing Go to Market sales motions for early stage startups. His core expertise is in setting sales structure, process/tools, Sales forecasting, strategic planning, predic... Read more

Experience

Jeeves

Global Head of Revenue Operations

Mar 2022 – Present

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Jeeves (www.tryjeeves.com) is building international fintech infrastructure from scratch; this includes a global switching layer across countries and the ability to run all your company spend -- corporate cards, non card and cross border payment -- on Jeeves... Read more

Afterpay

Head of Sales Operations & Enablement

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Build and scale Global sales operations team to support the hyper revenue growth. Work closely with sales management to identify and prioritize opportunities to build world-class sales operations analytics, planning and processes -> Develop Go-To-Market str... Read more

Magento, an Adobe Company

Head of Sales Operations

Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

Greater Los Angeles Area

Magento was acquired by Adobe in June 2018 Built & scaled Global Sales & Customer Success Operations to support a team of 200+ sales/customer success/channel reps towards $250M in annual recurring revenue through mix of Enterprise and Commercial SaaS busines... Read more

Trifacta

Director of Sales Operations

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

San Francisco Bay Area

Trifacta, the leading data wrangling solution for exploratory analytics, significantly enhances the value of an enterprise’s big data by enabling users to easily transform and enrich raw, complex data into clean and structured formats for analysis. Job Summ... Read more

Informatica

Sr Program Manager - Sales Operations

Apr 2014 – Dec 2015

San Francisco Bay Area

Partner with sales leaders to use analytics to provide actionable insights and promote better decision making for Informatica cloud SaaS business model. Support pipeline analysis, forecasting, territory planning, annual planning, sales team and rep performa... Read more

Seagate Technology

Sr. Program Manager - Sales Operations

Jan 2008 – Jan 2014

San Francisco Bay Area

-> Work with the Sales Leadership team to develop, measure and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for Inside Sales and Field Organization -> Assist in all facets of sales planning, inclusive of regular updates to pipeline, quotas, headcount, and sales p... Read more

Caterpillar

Sr Consultant - NPC Engineering Applications Support

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

Mossville, IL

End-to-End business process consulting to Engineering Applications team for technical support setup. Analyzed needs on support structure develop cost/benefits models, propose recommendations to top executives. Led implementation of engineering support tea... Read more

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004

Led the team of 3 towards the release of PLM Software: TeamCenter Enterprise 4.0 localization Module. Oversaw designing and developing the localization compatible software architecture using MoDEL/Method coding and installer creations using Makefile coding.

Education

University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management

Leadership & Strategy (Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.))

Harvard Business School

Leadership Development Program - Manager

Michigan State University

Mechanical Engineering (Master's Degree)

COEP Technological University

Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's Degree)

Volunteering

Jun 2022 – Present

The Sales Management Association’s (SMA) Corporate Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) Advisory Board directs SMA's efforts to refine and codify SFE certification standards, advises SMA's membership on important issues relevant to sales force effectiveness, shar... Read more

IGI Global

Peer Reviewer

Dec 2018 – Present

Peer-review articles for International Journal of Business Analytics - IJBAN (https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-business-analytics/67141) on following topics - Business Intelligence, Business Forecasting, Statistical decision making, ... Read more

Intel Corporation

ISEF 2010 - International Chairperson

Oct 2008 – Apr 2010

Served as Chairperson of International office and recruited/managed scheduling of about 170 interpreters as per international student requirements at ISEF 2010 San Jose. Responsibilities included: being a liaison between students and interpreters, providing ... Read more

May 2010 – Sep 2010

Raised funds to support elementary education needs of underprivileged children by running the 2010 San Francisco Marathon.