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 is also an active advisor at a number companies: Appboy, Zenput, CloudSquads, Infinibeam

(public), and Paytm.

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.

Specialties: Mobile, Analytics, Business Applications, Security, CRM, Social Networks/Media,

and SaaS. Expertise in both B2B & B2C SaaS Business Models. Key industry experience spans:
Telecom, Media, Energy, Retail, and Financial Services.

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)

Chief Revenue Officer (SVP) at Plusmo (Acquired by YP ATT Interactive)

January 2008  -  June 2010  (2 years 6 months)
Worked at Plusmo which was acquired by ATT Interactive (Yellow Pages)

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 GreenNote (acquired by First Marblehead)

January 2006  -  2009  (3 years)
GreenNote is a new and exciting venture at the crossroads of microfinance, social networking, and
student loans. The company's mission is to help students secure low cost loans from their social
networks. The company was backed by Menlo Ventures & Glenbrook Partners and other investors.
My responsibilities as the CEO included overall management, strategic direction, raising venture
capital and leading the team.

Snr Director ERP Business at Mercury Interactive

January 2004  -  January 2007  (3 years 1 month)
Drove and led Mercury's business within ERP market.This generated over $150MM annualized
revenue for the company via the ERP products. During my tenure the business grew at 45%
CAGR.

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.

Senior Product Manager at Oracle

1990  -  1996  (6 years)
Responsible for managing a complete product line of Oracle database and application products on
Unix. Drove product strategy and marketing strategy for entire product line.

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

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