Ajit Deshpande

Ajit Deshpande is the Vice President of Demand Generation at Circle. Ajit has over two decades of experience in marketing, growth finance, and strategy. Prior to joining Circle, they were the Vice President of Marketing Business Planning, Operations and Analytics at Salesforce. In this role, they were responsible for the operating expense planning and tracking for Marketing and Sales, metrics evolution and tracking for Marketing, global pipeline and new business target setting and performance tracking, AE productivity tracking across segments and regions, sales capacity planning, sales compensation design, and ensuring consistency and coordination of objectives and targets across Sales and Marketing.

Before Salesforce, Ajit was a startup investor. Ajit also served as the Growth Finance and Strategy Leader at Stripe. In this role, they were a strategy and finance business partner to the Chief Revenue Officer and the Chief Marketing Officer. Ajit also owned the operating expense planning and tracking for Marketing and Sales, metrics evolution and tracking for Marketing, global pipeline and new business target setting and performance tracking, AE productivity tracking across segments and regions, sales capacity planning, sales compensation design, and ensuring consistency and coordination of objectives and targets across Sales and Marketing.

Ajit has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell University.

Ajit Deshpande has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Ajit also has a B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Ajit took their Grades 11-12 at Sri Shivaji Science College, Congressnagar, and their Grades 1-10 at Somalwar Academy Education Society. Ajit also has a CFA Level 2 Exam in Finance and Strategy from the CFA Institute.

They work with Sandra Persing - VP, Developer and Ecosystem Marketing, Cameron Ewing - VP, Creative & Brand Marketing, and JaMese McGowan - VP, Brand, Content & Channels Marketing. Their manager is Sherice Torres, CMO.