Avanish Sahai

Avanish Sahai brings 20+ years of cross-functional leadership to Demandbase. As Chief Product Officer, Avanish leads product strategy, product management, and technology relationships. Prior to Demandbase, he was the Global Vice President of ISV's and Channels at salesforce.com, where he helped establish and scale the leading B2B apps marketplace, AppExchange, to over $1B in ecosystem revenues. Previously he was a senior executive at early stage companies: BDNA (acquired by PS'Soft), Cogency, Blazent and Impresse (acquired by EFI/PrintCafé). Avanish also was a management consultant at McKinsey, where he spearheaded the Software and Services practice. He started at Oracle, in engineering and product management. Avanish holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson, an MS in Computer Engineering from Boston University and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is passionate about globalization (visited all continents except Antarctica), soccer (go Brazil!) and innovation (which is why he's at Demandbase).