Gaurav Arora

Excited to take on an expanded role supporting the growth of the global Partnerships & Alliances business, alongside scaling the Startups & PLG business business. Looking forward to collaborating with our startup and partner ecosystem to help companies experience conversational AI at work with DevRev.

I am excited to be a 'Builder' once again with this rocketship startup and leading the Product-led growth (PLG) and Startup business globally. When every employee adopts a “product-thinking” mindset, customer-centricity transcends from a department to become a culture. Let's connect so you can experience first-hand the magic of seamlessly connecting product teams (Dev) with customers (Rev)!

Leading a cross-functional team across APJ committed to supporting the region’s most exciting startups, helping founders and entrepreneurs succeed on the journey from inception to IPO. Operationalised the first-ever dedicated startup segment in APJ and delivered region’s fastest segment growth over the last 3 years.

Scaled the Startup Ecosystem function and led multi-cultural teams across Asia Pacific and Japan. Established and scaled multiple programs across the startup lifecycle, including Activate that evolved as the flagship startup program of AWS with $1B+ credits issued in APJ till-date.

Founded and led the Startup ecosystem function in India that worked closely with the leading VC firms, accelerators, and incubators, to support their portfolio companies as mentors and advisors at every stage from building the best technology solutions to leveraging the broader Amazon network to unlock new go-to-market and expansion opportunities.

Drove deal-flow, deal diligence and portfolio management for early and growth stage technology companies in Europe and Middle East. Supported 2 successful deal closures and board operations of 2 semiconductor startups.

Proposed 14 strategic value propositions to enhance Smartphone sales. 5 propositions worth €8M yearly revenue impact accepted for implementation

Analysed corporate strategy for AppUp, Intel’s application store; influenced closure of a $100M AppUp fund from Intel Capital for content development and execution.

Excelled across complete chip design flow right from frontend coding & verification to backend chip design implementation for 65, 45 and 32nm technologies. Impacted the implementation strategy for efficient power management design to boost battery life of AMD laptops. Part of the foundational 20-member team and recognised as AMD’s ‘Best Employee’ in 2006 for significant contributions towards establishing India operations that grew 20-fold in 4 years. Won several awards for service excellence, scripting initiatives and successfully filing over 6 research papers in global technology conferences.

Led full-chip validation and performance benchmarking of TI and ARM processors.

Director’s List (top 5% of the class) scholar

Top 5% of the class; Institute Rank 1 in the Final Semester with Semester Grade of 10/10; B.Tech work published in IEEE Computers Society Journal, 2004.