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Akash Agarwal: San Francisco Bay Area GVP @SAP Mobile, General MGR, CEO
Akash Agarwal: San Francisco Bay Area GVP @SAP Mobile, General MGR, CEO
Summary
Akash Agarwal is currently GM of SAP´s Enterprise Mobile Business, a multi-hundred million revenue
business focused on selling a suite of Mobile Solutions - Application, Security, and Platform solutions
to enterprise customers across the globe.
Through Akash´s 22 years of experience in high tech, he has held a variety of roles, including
Founder & CEO of two venture-backed companies, Board member and General Manager at two
large companies.
Currently under Akash´s leadership as GM of SAP's Enterprise Mobile Business, annual revenue
has consistently grown Y/Y in the high double digits, and SAP has gained the #1 position in the
enterprise mobile market.
Akash's entrepreneurial experience includes being Founder and CEO of two VC-backed companies,
both of which were acquired by public companies.
He has also held GM positions at Oracle and Mercury (HP), where he and his team drove over 3x
revenue growth through defining innovative new products.
He holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Computer Science (with honors)
from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.
Experience
GVP Enterprise Mobile at SAP Mobile Business Unit
September 2012 - Present (3 years 10 months)
SAP is the #1 supplier of Enterprise Mobile Software with products that include:
- Mobile Security - MDM, MAM, MCM, TEM,
- Mobile Dev Platform - Middleware for Mobile App development
- Mobile Apps -- Suite of Mobile Apps
- Mobile Messaging - SMS based solutions
- M-Commerce/M-Banking - Retail coupons, Mobile banking solutions
- HANA - Consumer Insight - Big Data + Mobile
I lead the entire ecosystem and platform BD from a GTM perspective. This includes all indirect
routes to market -- Reseller's, Telco's, OEM, MSP's, Disti's, SI's, & strategic partners.
Advisor at CloudSquads
March 2012 - April 2016 (4 years 2 months)
Company recently acquired by Persistent Systems.
SVP / GM Platform Products & Business (Corp) Development at Location Labs (acquired by AVG)
May 2010 - September 2012 (2 years 5 months)
Location Labs brings safety and innovation to users through the power of mobile phone technology.
The company's platform power services offered by AT&T, T-Mo, Sprint, Verizon + 10 other
international carriers. Additionally, the company also has a developer base of over 4,200
developers building on it's technology.
Responsibilities, include managing developer platform of over 4500 developers, sales of Location
Labs/Safely products, Biz Dev globally with carriers, oem's, handset and content/advertisers.
In addition, also responsible for Corp Development (company acquired three companies in 2011)
Plusmo offers Smart phone Application development technology to consumers, operators and
OEM handset manufactures. Overall responsibility for driving mobile/Yellow Pages local business
across all channels: handsets, Ad Network, Operators, OEM’s and publishers. Additionally,
responsible for the Plusmo suite of Sports Apps on all the major marketplaces.
Key accomplishments:
Drove mobile Ad/monetization of YP local properties and YP network(Bing, Yahoo, AOL, Ask)
-Responsible for OEM’s strategy and partnerships with Nokia, Qualcomm, Opera, Vodafone, HTC,
- Responsible for developing & driving key strategy for consumer and brand publisher sales
Founder/CEO at iTheo.com
1998 - 2001 (3 years)
Founded online ecommerce site for artists. Raised venture capital and successfully sold the
company to Artisan Network.
Education
Harvard Business School
MBA, 1996 - 1998
University of Kent
Bsc. Honors, Computer Science, 1987 - 1990
Akash Agarwal
San Francisco Bay Area
GVP @SAP Mobile, General Mgr, CEO