Kash ShaikhFounder

United States - Palo Alto, California,

— Kash Shaikh (Cash Shake) is a people and customer-focused CEO with exceptional approval ratings on Glassdoor and Comparably.

— As a CEO, hired a diverse world-class executive leadership team at Virtana, https://www.virtana.com/company/leadership/

— Last fiscal year leading the team as CEO, the team delivered:

Financial results:
(1) 26% YoY profitable growth on an annual basis
(2) Turned the 13-year old company profitable with double-digit positive EBITDA, +ve Free cash flow (FCF)
(3) Raised $73M in financing

Customer-centric Product Innovation:
(1) Introduction of award-winning SaaS Multi-cloud management platform
(2) Product-Led Growth (#PLG) Strategy and unique freemium offering for customer acquisition
(3) One of the 100 Cloud Companies by the Channel Company | CRN

Leadership and Culture recognition:
(1) Best CEO for Women - Comparably award
(2) Best Company Culture, Best Company Women - Comparably award
(3)100% CEO employee approval rating on Glassdoor

— A hybrid cloud enterprise software/SaaS & infrastructure seasoned executive who has successfully built mission-driven culture, transforming international multisite teams & multi-billion businesses.

— CEO & General Management experience with P&L of $70M to $2B, pulling strategic commercial, technology, operational levers, and relentless cost-cutting to deliver profitable growth.

— Track record of improving results of underperforming teams in small, & large fortune 100 companies such as Dell, Cisco, and HP at executive levels.

— A servant leader who built diverse teams from scratch, took over & rebuilt teams, reorganized/restructured teams (please see my leadership articles on Forbes and LinkedIn).

— Led/influenced company strategies that resulted in tuck-ins, bolt-on, and public companies' M&As both on the buy-side and sell-side with successful exits.

— Experience transforming traditional perpetual software businesses to Flexible consumption model (FCMs), or Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) business models.

— Three years in a row @Dell rated as Rock Star Executive Leader based on Dell's annual employee survey (Tell Dell).

— Outside of work, enjoy modern minimalist home designs & coaching my daughter. I love to solve problems and love to invest time to learn new things to be the best version of myself continuously.