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My name is Sameer Patel. Pretzel Logic covers my thoughts on organizational performance and the enterprise software business. And on occasion, a healthy rant or two about unrelated stuff that’s on my mind. Content and opinion here, is mine alone.

Since February of 2019, I’ve been taking a short breather as I sort out my next gig. I’m meeting and advising with some amazing SaaS and enterprise software companies along the way.

Prior to my sabbatical, I joined Kahuna as CEO and board member in August of 2016. Kahuna was the leading provider of marketing automation software for consumer marketplaces and counted 10 of the #1 regional marketplaces in the world as customers, ranging from Carousell in Singapore to Restorando in Argentina and Brazil.

The company was founded in 2012 and counts Sequoia Capital, Uncork Capital (SoftTech VC) and Tenaya Capital as its lead investors. Kahuna was named Best Places to Work 2015, San Francisco Business.

Prior to Kahuna, I was GM/SVP of Products and Go-to-market at SAP Cloud / Successfactors. During my 4 year tenure, SAP Jam, SAP’s flagship collaboration platform grew to over 34 million subscribers and was named leader by IDC and grew at triple digit CAGR. Here’s why I joined. At SAP, I was responsible for P&L and privileged to head up an incredible team that includes leading Product Management, Go to Market Strategy and Sales, Developer Platform and Partner Ecosystem, Technology Partnerships, Customer Adoption and Engineering. More, here.

Prior to SAP, I’ve had 15 years of leading enterprise technology teams in the consulting and systems integrator business focused on the designing and executing customer, employee and partner networks and associated applications. Customers have included Intel, Nike, CA, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, XO Communications, Symex, McKesson, Wrigley and others.

I have an undergrad from Babson College in Corporate Finance and Economics and a Masters from Boston University in Management Information Systems.

My digital bread crumbs: Twitter: sameerpatel | Linked In: Profile | Email: Sameer | Keynote Presentations:  Slideshare.

Opinion:   I blog here at pretzellogic.org and I’m also privileged to be a member of the Enterprise Irregulars.

Industry: I’ve been honored to keynote over 50 industry and venture capital/private equity events including CeBIT, IBMConnect, The Social Business Forum, Milan, SIIA, WebCom Toronto, KMWorld,  The Future of Talent, Defrag, GigaOm Net:Work, GigaOm Mobile Enterprise Summit, amongst others.

Elsewhere in the press: I’ve had the privilege to discuss the future of networked enterprises and emerging enterprise technology trends in  publications such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC Business, Forbes, Gigaom, Diginomica, ZDNet, CIO.com and TechCrunch, amongst others. Here are a few articles.

I was a nationally ranked Squash Player and I still actively play the game.

I live in Palo Alto, California.

Photo Credit: Martin Gillet

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