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Pune
Abhijit Mhetre
SVP Marketing, Kore.ai
Building

As a B2B Technology Marketer, I have helped companies drive growth by shaping brand perception globally and driving revenue growth through marketing pipeline.

Global B2B Strategic Marketing | Enterprise Software Product, Platform, and IT Services | SaaS & PaaS| Brand custodian| Product Positioning & GTM Specialist | Analyst Relations, PR, Partner & Influencer Marketing | Product Led Growth Expert | Startup Growth & Business Modelling Expert | Investor Communications | Speaker, Blogger & Tech Evangelist | Startup Advisor, Mentor, Investor

Experience Summary:

Strategic marketing leader and entrepreneur who brings over 22 years of techno marketing, strategic innovation, and management consultancy experience from three different continents. After 12 years of corporate career in customer facing roles as strategic consultant, tech evangelist and account executive, since 2010 Abhijit is highly active in entrepreneurial activities. His global enterprise experience, building his own startup as well as investments in and working with several startups gives him unique perspective about product startups, building challenger brands, and creating a growth story.

Current Activities:
Abhijit is SVP at Kore.ai , leader in Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms. At Kore.ai he heads all-things-marketing from India and has successfully established the company as a leader in the first ever Gartner MQ for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms, launched 7 new AI-first products. Before that he was the head of marketing at Altizon systems, a leading IIoT company where he spearheaded the effort to establish it as a niche player in the first ever Gartner MQ for IIoT platforms and achieve 2X growth YoY for 3 Years. Prior to that, Abhijit founded www.Canvazify.com , the simplest collaborative Innovation platform for designers and teams to streamline innovation process. 

Speaking Activities:
Abhijit is associated with several startup ecosystems in India and abroad. He speaks or conducts workshops on entrepreneurship, business modelling, lean startup, design thinking and marketing topic. He has conducted workshops at Startup Leadership, TiE, IIT Bombay, VIM, MIT Institute of Design, Agile Testing Alliance, NUMA, to name a few.

Education: 
- Executive MBA - Boston University
- Bachelors in Computer Engineering - Pune University

Associations/Activities:
- Volunteer iSpirt
- Co-Program Lead Startup Leadership Pune
- Marketing Lead at TiEConPune
- Mentor at Digital India Innovation by Intel, UC Berkely, DST, CIIE
- Mentor at Startup Launchpad (WeekendVentures)

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