Ratan Agarwal
Advisor
Ratan Agarwal is an accomplished Senior Executive, Consultant, and Board Member with 20+ years of success in the Information Technology & networking, IoT, Cloud/SaaS, Services, healthcare, and auto industries. Leveraging extensive experience with innovation, business incubation, scaling&transformation, Ratan is a valuable asset for companies seeking guidance on driving top-line growth and sustained bottom-line improvements. His broad areas of expertise include business strategy & planning, operational transformation & excellence, product development & launch, value-based pricing, go-to-market & partnerships, sales & channel enablement & acceleration, early stage business due diligence &valuations, and fund-raising.
Currently, Ratan is part of several incubators and accelerators in NYC metro area, along with investing, advising and consulting with early-stage companies in IoT, Cloud/SaaS models, healthcare and services. Previously, as President/COO at 4.0 Analytics, Ratan led incubation to launch of a pioneering predictive maintenance solution for connected vehicles leveraging power of IoT, Cloud, BigData/Analytics and Mobility. His responsibilities included strategy, fund raising, organization development, product development, GTM & channel development, and customer success. Previously, during his 16-year tenure at Cisco, he developed, launched and managed global sales and marketing programs driving $640M in sales impact; services portfolio pricing, optimization & investments; global operational management & transformation for $3B+ professional services business; incubation to scale of IoT solutions portfolio, managed services, and private cloud/SaaS solutions.
Ratan holds a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School; a Master of Technology in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and he was selected for Cisco’s Services Leadership Development Program. Ratan serves onboards for FallCall Solutions andDXi.