Apurva Chamaria serves as the Chief Business Officer at Nucleus Software. Previously, he was the Global Head of Venture Capital at Google, and before that served as SVP & Chief of Staff to the CEO & MD of Tech Mahindra. As Chief Revenue Officer at RateGain, the world's leading SaaS player in travel and hospitality, he led the company from 20 Mn to 63 Mn ARR in just 32 months.

In his 13-and-a-half-year stint at HCL, Apurva led global corporate marketing, responsible for brand marketing, employer brand, employee marketing, thought-leadership, digital marketing, analytics, finance, and marketing communications. Other roles at HCL included being part of CEO Vineet Nayar's office and serving as Sales Director at HCL America. Prior to moving into sales, he was the Global Head of Marketing and Strategy for Enterprise Applications (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, ECMP, IV & VS, Mainframe and Mid-range, Business Intelligence, IT Consulting), leading a geographically distributed team of marketing managers — a line of business that contributed $1 Bn to HCL. As part of the leadership team, he worked to successfully identify, acquire, and integrate Axon Group Plc, an acquisition worth GBP 441 million, and was involved in setting up the marketing organization, processes, and systems at HCL, working in the early days as Category Manager for Lifesciences & Retail.

Apurva has approximately two-and-a-half years of pharmaceutical industry experience, having worked in various sales and marketing positions at Ranbaxy Laboratories (now Sun Pharma). He is regularly invited to share his experiences at industry conferences such as Sales Performance Management, LinkedIn Tech Connect, Microsoft Leaders Peak, and ACMP Change Management, as well as at premier B-School events at ISB, IIM-A, IIM-Raipur, FMS, IIMC, IIM, MICA, and Great Lakes, among others. He was made a Fellow of the All India Management Association (AIMA) in 2021.

His areas of expertise span business strategy, sales and marketing strategy and operations, account management and client servicing, brand management and integrated marketing communications, digital marketing, sales and marketing training, and teaching at B-Schools.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apurvachamaria/?originalSubdomain=in

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