Sanket Akerkar

Director at Akumina

Sanket Akerkar is a member of the Akumina Board of Directors. In his role on the board, Akerkar provides strategic sales and go to market guidance as well as aides in the development of a worldwide partner channel for Akumina. Currently, Mr. Akerkar is the SVP of Worldwide Fleet and Insurance Business at Nauto. Nauto combines leading-edge vehicle hardware with an ever-learning artificial intelligence platform, Nauto can make any car, a smart car. Mr. Akerkar joined the Board in September of 2015 while serving as the Global Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise Sales at Microsoft. During his 15 year tenure at Microsoft, Akerkar held several senior sales and marketing positions around the globe including oversight of a $30B sales team and as Managing Director for all of Microsoft India. In these positions his responsibilities included growing the direct sales and marketing operations, driving strategic partnerships and alliances with global platform partners, channel partners, OEMs, and the system builder community. Akumina benefits from the best practices advice Akerkar is able to offer based on this extensive experience.

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