About

Bharath Sridhar is a highly accomplished Senior Product Consultant for Asia Pacific Partnerships at Freshworks Inc. He manages the Freshservice Presales function for APAC and ANZ regions, as part of the Channel Partnerships Team. Bharath has a solid background in sales, distribution, category management, planning, people function, administration, trade marketing, system compliance, and capability development. He has handled a turnover of over ₹200 million through a strong SS/distributor network of 30+ distributors and stockists, with an effective team of 26 TBIs and 4 ABEs at Unibic Foods for Chennai Region. Bharath is an alumnus of top institutions of the country - NMIMS(MBA) and SSN College of Engineering (B.Tech). He was elected President of the most coveted Public Relations Cell at NMIMS, handling a team of 46 highly skilled individuals. He ranked in the top 3% in the state of Tamil Nadu in 12th Board Examination. Before joining Freshworks, Bharath worked as a Big Data Developer for a leading legal-based client at Cognizant in Agile Model of Product Development. As part of the back-end team, his role was to develop and enhance the search engine functionalities using Marklogic, XQuery, and Java. At Freshworks, Bharath is responsible for handling the ITSM/ITIL/ITAM/ESM Presales function for the Asia-Pacific, Australia & New Zealand regions, as part of the Channel Partnerships Team. He works with Channel Managers to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections, and convert prospects to customers. He works closely with the product management team and other cross-functional teams of developers and architects with a variety of both regional and international geographies, to demonstrate and prototype integrations within the customer environment. Bharath is an Area Business Development Manager at Unibic Foods India, where he achieved YTD growth of 54% and MoM growth of 25% on average. He was awarded the Best Area Business Manager for June '20 for achieving an all-time high number of 1.9Cr. He also worked as an MBA Intern Connect at Google, where he gained experience interacting with interns from 100+ different organizations and 30+ campuses, education, and exposure to Google's culture and values. Bharath has a Master of Business Administration - MBA degree in Marketing & Analytics from SV