Jitendra Kavathekar

Jitendra A. Kavathekar is a global business and innovation leader with nearly 33 years of experience spanning partnerships, alliances, open innovation, analytics, and product leadership across companies including Glean, Salesforce, Accenture, Yahoo!, Motorola, and HP. He currently serves as Global Head of Consulting Partners at Glean, after also holding the role of Global Lead, GSI, where he helps shape strategic partner ecosystems for the company’s Work AI platform. His career highlights include leading alliances and channels for GSI partnerships at Salesforce, co-founding and leading Accenture Ventures Open Innovation, serving as President and CEO of Twiki, and driving innovation leadership roles at Yahoo!, Palm, Motorola, and HP. While his profile is rooted more in strategic growth and partnership leadership than traditional brand marketing, it showcases deep expertise in business development, alliance management, consulting, innovation, and analytics skills that are central to scaling go-to-market impact and ecosystem-led growth. His distinctive achievements include serving as a jury member for Cannes Lions in 2017, being named a Fellow of the Tribeca Disruptor Foundation, receiving an Emmy Award nomination, and being awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from International Technology University.