Cheryan Jacob

Cheryan Jacob

Engineering and Product Executive; Chief Engineering Officer, Chief Information Officer

GEICOSeattle, Washington, United States

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Experience21+ Years
LevelCXO

Executive Overview

As a proven global engineering and product executive, I have helped large organizations achieve their vision for over 20 years. I have successfully guided businesses with billions in revenue to transform their products and services, leveraging the latest advances in cloud technology. My technical prowess, product innovation talents, and business acumen allows organizations to capitalize on organic opportunities. From transformational revenue growth to novel product launches, my impact has been measurable at industry leaders like Salesforce and Microsoft. Here are some examples of my biggest wins: 🌟 Enabled revenue growth from $900M to $3B as SVP at Salesforce by modernizing and transforming platform engineering. 🌟 Led database engineering for one of the world’s largest and most complex SQL Server estates supporting $1.5B+ Salesforce Marketing Cloud business. 🌟 Modernized and transformed Microsoft’s $170M global support engineering organization with 1500+ employees located in over 30 countries. 🌟 Drove large-scale cloud migrations at Bing AppEx and billions of on-premises license revenue growth at SQL Server. Thank you for connecting with my profile. I enjoy networking with other experts across LinkedIn, so please feel free to reach out!

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • GEICOCurrent
    Sep 2025–Present· 1 yr
    • Chief Information OfficerCurrent
      Sep 2025–Present
  • Jul 2024–Sep 2025· 1 yr 2 mos
    • Chief Information Officer
      Jul 2024–Sep 2025
  • Dec 2023–Jun 2024· 6 mos
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Dec 2023–Jun 2024
  • Jun 2023–Nov 2023· 5 mos
    • Executive Vice President, Platform Engineering; Chief Engineering Officer
      Jun 2023–Nov 2023
  • Mar 2021–Feb 2023· 1 yr 11 mos
    • Member, Executive Board
      Mar 2021–Feb 2023
  • Sep 2018–Jun 2023· 4 yrs 9 mos
    • Technology, Marketing, and Product Site Leader - Indianapolis
      Feb 2019–2022
    • Senior Vice President; Head of Platform Engineering, Engagement 360
      Sep 2018–Jun 2023
  • Jun 2015–Sep 2018· 3 yrs 3 mos
    • General Manager; Global Support Engineering, Data and Enterprise Cloud
      Oct 2016–Sep 2018
    • Product Leader, Principal Group Program Manager - SQL Server Tiger Team
      Jun 2015–Nov 2016
  • Oct 2014–Jun 2015· 8 mos
    • Engineering Leader, Head of Site Reliability Engineering
      Oct 2014–Jun 2015
  • Jun 2010–Sep 2014· 4 yrs 3 mos
    • Product and Program Managment Leader - Bing AppEx
      Jul 2013–Sep 2014
    • Engineering Manager - SQL
      Jun 2010–Jul 2013
  • Aug 2005–May 2010· 4 yrs 9 mos
    • Research and Development - Analytics and BI
      Nov 2007–May 2010
    • Research and Development - EpicCare Ambulatory
      Aug 2005–Nov 2007

Education

Post-Graduate Diploma

VLSI Design

V3Logic Private Limited

B.E

Electronics and Computer Engineering

National Institute of Technology Surat

M.S

Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Enterprise ArchitectureProject ManagementInfrastructureBusiness EngagementRevenue & Profit GrowthNonprofit OrganizationsCorporate FinanceCustomer JourneysCustomer SuccessBusiness Growth StrategiesCultural TransformationCybersecuritySite Reliability EngineeringPlatform engineeringMentoringCloud technologiesGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipTechnology ManagementTechnology MigrationImmigration Issues