Samir Agarwal

Samir Agarwal brings an impressive background and a wealth of knowledge from his 20+ year career. He has impressive experience in product management, managing profit and loss (P&L), developing strategy and leading globally distributed teams. He also has lifecycle experience from vision to launch to end-of-life (EOL) products in enterprise and consumer domains.

Samir has worked in director-level positions or above for Nokia, Mirealis, WineDirect, and Accelerite (a Persistent Company). His last position as the SVP, Partnerships, Growth and Strategy for Persistent Systems saw him own the strategy and execution for building the partner program. That program drove 20% of the company’s revenues, ~$125 million of that through the partner channel in 2 years strong solution focus on IT, app modernization and collaboration areas. The partner program is on track for 350%+ year over year growth. Samir was part of the core transformation team that led Persistent from a $500 million company to $1B in 4 years. He drove the global Salesforce strategy to triple revenues, assessing domains and machine learning for growth.

Samir earned his Master of Science in Computer Science from State University of NewYork at Albany during which he topped the Master of Science Comprehensive and PhD qualifier exams. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology during which he graduated with distinction and ranked among the top two students in the major field. Samir also completed the Executive Management Program from Duke University.