Bhaskar Bose

About Bhaskar Bose

With 15+ years of SaaS & Sales Leadership experience, I have had the privilege of driving Organisational growth across Mid-market (SMB) as well as Enterprise business segments. Pioneered Customer Acquisition, sustainable Revenue growth, long-term Customer Success, end-to-end Business Objective attainment methodologies, and most importantly, built People-first powerhouse teams, at a Global scale.Currently leading the team that drives frontline revenue for Salesforce\'s SMB segment. Salesforce is pioneering CRM+AI with trust and security globally, and in India, we are unlocking tremendous impact of using technology for SMB growth. Responsible for revenue goals, C-suite relationships, portfolio development and customer success for emerging markets. People management for frontline AEs including career development and sales coaching. Previously,> Google : led the Customer Solutions team for Google’s Mid-Market Sales Partnership across Commerce & Leadgen businesses - developed Marketing-Objective based methodologies enabling successful transformational customer journeys using Google\'s Digital Marketing solution suite.> Meltwater : launched and spearheaded the Indian operations of Meltwater, developing both Client Acquisition and Client Success teams. Hired and developed the executive layer of talent in Meltwater India. As one of the most successful Managing Directors globally, honoured to experience the prestigious Leadership Executive Program at UC Berkeley.Expertise Areas : • Leadership through people development• Launching and scaling operations successfully• Business Development and sustainable market share growth• Nurturing a profitable business through Client Portfolio growth• Cross-functional Partnerships• Transformational MO-based solutions • Pioneering Customer centric Methodologies at scale• Developing High performance teams through psychological safety• Solving for C-level / Executive / Enterprise top line goals• Thought Leader in Mid-market Customer growth & B2B SaaS

Experience

1. Country Head - Digital Sales, Smb (Emerging Markets) India

   Salesforce

   Apr 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Lead profitable growth for the Digital business (Martech) across Salesforce India\'s SMB segment pan-India- Responsible for the top line revenue and business health for Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, Agentic AI and other Digital product suites across emerging businesses- Expand footprint of Salesforce\'s latest cutting edge AI+Data+Martech across SMBs, in collaboration with CRM, Tableau, Slack and other Core offerings

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  Executive Education (Leadership), Adaptive Leadership

  2018 — 2018

• Birla Vidya Niketan, New Delhi

  Sr. Secondary- CBSE Board, Science with computers (95.4% aggregate - Class Topper)

  1991 — 2005

• National University of Singapore

  Bachelors in Engineering (B.Eng), Electronic Engineering with Technopreneurship/Business Management

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Negotiation
• Public Speaking
• Media Monitoring
• Customer Relations
• B2b
• Saas
• Management
• New Business Development
• Business Development
• Sales
• Strategic Planning
• Account Management
• Social Media Marketing
• Market Research
• Business Strategy
• Marketing
• Marketing Strategy
• Public Relations
• Meltwater
• Start-Ups
• Business Intelligence
• Social Media
• Crm
• Entrepreneurship
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business-to-Business (B2b)