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Dinesh Sharma
Dinesh Sharma
Vice President
Marketing, Internet of Things SAP
As Vice President of Marketing, Internet of Things (IoT), Dinesh Sharma is charged with driving thought leadership, awareness and adoption of SAP’s solutions for IoT across industries and lines of business. He is responsible for go-to-market plans across the IoT portfolio, as well as providing detailed analysis of industry and market trends, customer needs, competitors, economic environment and emerging business opportunities.
Prior to his current role, he was the global VP leading cloud and cloud platform marketing, where he successfully launched the industry’s first in-memory cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), SAP HANA Cloud platform.
Dinesh is senior technology executive with over 20 years experience in the industry: His domain experience spans from semiconductors, software design, product marketing and business strategy. He has managed worldwide business units for large technology companies and also has founded technology start-ups, including Dynamic Pictures, Inc., which he sold to 3Dlabs. While at ATI and AMD he drove an increase in market share from 12% to 47% in less than 2 years, while also delivering a 5X growth in revenue by delivering innovative products, driving direct sales engagement and marketing programs that reinvigorated enterprise sales. Prior to joining SAP he has been in leadership roles at startups in virtualization, big data and distributed computing with a heavy emphasis on building Cloud infrastructure and platforms. He has captured over $30MM in venture funding in his entrepreneurial career.
Dinesh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Liverpool, UK. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two small children.
Articles
Today’s connected and networked world has created a fast-paced environment for growth, innovation, and optimization. In retail, you’ll find businesses taking advantage of this new era of hyperconnectivity to deliver innovative consumer experiences for this new, networked economy. MIT Technology Review calls the networked economy “the next economic revolution.” In it, commerce is created not […]
Two more days to go… all the meetings, preparation, planning, and a tiny bit of stress is done and now for the big event itself – Mobile World Congress 2014. It’s going to be a massive show for SAP and I’m very much looking forward to interacting with customers, partners, influencers and thought leaders as […]
