CleverTap Appoints Anand Venkatraman as Chief Operating Officer

CleverTap has announced the appointment of Anand Venkatraman as the Chief Operating Officer. Anand has over two decades of experience in building and scaling global teams and P&Ls across various sales motions. He joins from Freshworks where he led the fast-growing Asia Pacific and the Middle East and Africa business.

He also played a key role in driving global partnerships to independently grow the business across 40+ countries, scaling the technology marketplace, and embedding Freshworks deep into the worldwide startup ecosystem. Prior to that, he held leadership positions at Akamai and Microsoft in APJ and India.

“I warmly welcome Anand to CleverTap. His appointment underlines our ambitious growth plans to be the gamechanger for user retention. He has a successful track record in taking businesses globally, building highly engaged teams, and establishing creative approaches for customer success. Anand will strengthen the CleverTap management team to help scale the company to the next level by bringing in excellence in execution,” said Sidharth Malik, CEO CleverTap Inc.

“I am excited to join CleverTap as they emerge as the retention category market leader, in not just India and South-East Asia but also in markets like North America, Latin America, Middle East, Turkey, Africa, and Europe. I am looking forward to being a part of CleverTap’s journey in taking the Indian SaaS story to the world,” said Anand Venkatraman.