About

Akhil Vishwanath is a results-driven channel business professional with over 10 years of progressive experience in driving revenues and managing channel relationships across industry-leading global technology organizations. Currently, he is serving as a Senior Manager of Partner Marketing at CircleCI. Akhil has worked with renowned organizations like IBM, HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Intel, NetApp, Veeam, and Veritas for North America, EMEA, and APAC. With an efficient MDF budget management of 1.8 Million USD and revenue contribution of 150 million USD, Akhil has developed a framework to connect marketing impact to revenue for partner reporting on ROI. He has won a 900K CAD Toronto Transit Council RFP for IT Quality Assurance Services for J&M Group and onboarded 12 VARs for the Cloud Reseller Program. Akhil has also championed more than nine vendor product launches across Canada, New Zealand & Australia, building cloud revenue of 1.2 Million USD in less than six months. Akhil has created business partner marketing and sales-ready campaigns for IBM Cloud, Analytics & Security products. He has won the North America IT Services Marketing award for the Client Value Play sales enablement program. Currently, Akhil is serving as a Marketing Manager of Databases and Infrastructure at Pythian. In his past roles, Akhil has worked with Softchoice as Partner Marketing Manager (Product) and Partner Marketing Manager- HPE and IBM. He has developed, executed, and measured end-to-end integrated partner marketing campaigns in collaboration with cross-functional teams. Akhil has owned and managed partner marketing program budgets, including month-end reconciliation, partner billing, expense forecasting, and contributed to the ROI analysis for each major campaign executed. Akhil holds a Master of Business (Canadian Master's equivalent, assessed by WES Canada) degree in Global business analysis and services marketing from Alliance University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science and Engineering from B. M. S. College of Engineering. He has relevant experience of 10.70 years and is proficient in infra, QA, and web technologies.