Piyush Shukla

Piyush Shukla is the Director at Evolution Research Group. Prior to this, they were the Sr. Business Lifecycle Manager - Converged Data Infrastructure at Hewlett Packard Enterprise from May 2016 to December 2016. In this role, they were responsible for driving the relationship, process and adoption of the products that form the basis of the future product direction. This required technical, process and sales management skills to drive success across a silo structured organization. Piyush worked with a cross functional team of R&D, support, sales & pre-sales, consulting, factory, product management, etc. teams to drive the SAP HANA Deal Specific program that directly impacted in-quarter revenue and customer satisfaction. Piyush also managed the product relationship & product integration roadmap with container vendors such as Mesosphere.

A few significant accomplishments of this role include positively impacting over $50 million in revenue with large global customers such as Nestle, 3M, Hero Group, US Army, etc. with SAP/HANA deals; improving the SAP/HANA customer deal process and reducing response time from weeks to days- driving better communication to sales & customers & improving close rates; being the SPOC for sales & field on Mesosphere product, relationship and GTM for customers; and managing the product & roadmap relationship with Mesosphere for container technology and integration with HPE products & go-to-market.

Piyush Shukla earned their MBA in Marketing from Youngstown State University. Piyush also holds a BSBA in Marketing Management from the same school. In addition, they have earned certifications from GE Aviation in LEAN Academy, APM Group in ITIL v3 Foundation, and Pragmatic Marketing in Pragmatic Marketing.