Sharad Seth

About Sharad Seth

The \"Why?\" guy. As AI reduces friction around \"How to execute\", I bring intent and direction to Product Leadership. With ~25 years\' experience across Product Management, Technology, Sales & Entrepreneurship, I’ve gathered a practical sense of building Products and growing teams, refined through continuous, hands-on execution. I evolve products from concept-stage to stable, revenue-generating stages, by engaging with stakeholders at every level, including founders, board members, investors, operational leaders, product managers, and engineering leads. Key functional experience includes: • Entrepreneurship & building early-stage teams • Defining product vision, goals, and product-led growth strategies • Outlining technical vision, roadmaps, and architecture • Leading consultative sales and managing territories Product/Tech expertise in: • AI, Data science and machine learning • Cybersecurity • HR-tech and Recruitment-Tech • ERP, supply chain, and logistics systems • Blockchain and smart contracts

Experience

1. Advisory Board Member Fractional CTO

   VBeyond Corporation

   Jul 2020 — Present

   VBeyond Inc, is a diversity-focused global recruiting firm headquartered in US. Service lines include Executive Search, Permanent Hiring and Contract Staffing.As fractional CTO, leading the following initiatives - 1. Data Security & Compliance2. Knowledge and Learning Management Solutions (KMS / LMS)3. Evaluation, procurement and roll-out of solutions in the Recruitment-Tech space, such as AI-enabled Sourcing, AI-proctored Interviews4. Developing new in-house business solutions

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering

  1996 — 2000

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, Marketing

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Erp
• Java
• Sales
• Strategic Partnerships
• Sales Process
• Professional Services
• Product Management
• Content Planning
• Crm
• Entrepreneurship
• Program Management
• Enterprise Solution Selling
• Analytics
• Manufacturing
• Consultative Selling
• IT Strategy
• Business Development
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Management
• Solution Selling
• Business Planning
• Vendor Management
• Business Alliances
• Campaign Planning
• Business Intelligence
• Computer Security
• Pre-Sales
• Channel Partners
• Management
• Strategy
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Ios Development
• Project Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• B2b
• Sales Pipeline Management
• Wireless
• Outsourcing
• Saas