2) Desh Urs:
Former Vice President Global Sales Services and Marketing, SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.), former Vice President-Alliances- Brio Technology and Vice President- Sales & Marketing, Acxiom Corporation.
Desh Urs brings over 20 years of leadership, general management, sales and marketing experience to his clients. His work spans Asia, Europe, and North America focusing on building businesses and delivering solutions for technology based organizations. He has experience in the financial, health care, communications, data management, and business intelligence industries and works with global 100 corporations and start-ups alike.
The experience Desh brings to the entrepreneurial/start-up environment has spanned
strategic business planning, venture capital relationships, technology platform
development, business and financial accountability, and interim corporate leadership.
He has been instrumental in helping systems transition from private ownership to
publicly held organization.
Through his consulting and corporate leadership roles, Desh has displayed a keen
ability to identify corporate challenges. His skill in seeing the strategic goal,
designing the implementation, and driving the organization to success, has led to
success across several continents and industries.
Prior to establishing iBridge, Desh was a senior vice president for Qsent, a data
warehousing and validation organization. He was the chief architect of new
customer acquisition and existing customer growth initiatives resulting in a total
revenue increase of 210%, and a 256% growth in recurring revenue.
Desh has been responsible for successfully leading business development efforts and
strategic relationships in Europe, Asia, and the US. His ability to identify and follow
through on opportunities in Decision Cycle Management, Applied & Application
Engineering, Solutions Development, Software Product Development, Strategic
Global Alliances, and Global Benchmarking teams helped his organizations create
over a billion dollars in revenue. Earlier in his career, Desh held leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Inc., Think Tools AG, Brio Technology and Acxiom Corporation. He has been responsible for financial engineering, business development, strategic and
partner alliances, product development and marketing for data mining and
visualization, database relationships, and solutions across a range of industries.
Desh currently sits on the Board of Directors for Suprawin Technologies Ltd. and
Codito Technologies. He holds Masters’ Degrees in Business, Statistics, and Marketing.
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