Sumeet Arora

Roles: CXO(Product and Engineering), SVP/GM(multi-billion dollar P&L), Board member; Functions: Product, Engineering, Design, Growth, Product Marketing, Information Security, Customer Support; Strategy: Strategy for growth, market leadership, velocity, and efficiency; Built and operationalized multi-year business and product strategy at Cisco(web-scale insertion, margin growth, and OPEX efficiency) and ThoughtSpot (SaaS, AI, embedded analytics, platformization, and path to cash flow breakeven); Innovation and Growth: Conceptualized and built new product lines in data analytics and networking; Returned ThoughtSpot product to Leader in Gartner MQ; Fastest to market with GenAI based agentic analytics for business intelligence segment; Built ThoughtSpot embedded analytics into a high growth product-line; Built ThoughtSpot SaaS and led its growth from 0 to 100M+ USD; Enabled Cisco’s web-scale routing business to grow by 3X in 3 years by building a new billion dollar product line; Returned multi-billion USD annual Cisco Service Provider Networking business to growth and higher margin after a complete revamp of product portfolio and through insertion in web-scale segment; Entrepreneurship: Product-Market fit for ThoughtSpot AI, ThoughtSpot SaaS, ThoughtSpot Embedded Analytics; Internal startup leadership at Cisco delivering 3 new product families in 14 months enabling business growth in cloud scale segment. Execution: Large company GM, Product, and Engineering roles (3-6B USD business, 3500+ team); Venture backed startup roles (CXO, Product, and Engineering); P&L; GTM strategy; Packaging and Pricing; Customer relationships and sponsorship; Culture transformation(market-connected, can-do, results focused) Technology experience summary: Applied AI, SaaS, Systems, Networking, Data Analytics, Distributed Systems, Applications; Continuing education: General Management Program graduate (Wharton), Advanced Software Systems (Stanford), Electronics and communication engineering (IIT, India)