Neal Vasan

Critic
DISC Type : C

Director, Global Forward Deployed Engineering at Moveworks

San Francisco, California, United States

Overview

Neal leads the Global Forward Deployed Engineering team at Moveworks, now part of ServiceNow. A Penn State electrical engineering alumnus, he specializes in building innovative AI agents for enterprise customers. He previously worked as an IT Engineer at Okta during its high-growth IPO phase.

As a San Francisco Bay Area native, Neal has a strong interest in entrepreneurship. His hobbies include music, basketball, and investing. During his time at Penn State, he was also involved in community fundraising events like THON.

While in college, he won an innovation challenge which earned him a meeting with the CEOs of Reddit and Weebly.

Personality Overview

Negotiator

ROI Driven

Precise

They prefer to analyze logically and value objective facts over emotions.  They don’t appreciate bells and whistles unless backed by data. They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms.

Topics They Care About

Agentic Automation
He co-authored a recent company blog post on building more powerful AI agents using agentic automation, demonstrating deep expertise in this specific area of AI.
Global Team Leadership
He leads a globally distributed engineering team and was responsible for expanding his Customer Success Engineering team into Europe and India.
Entrepreneurship
He has a stated enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and won a university innovation challenge, showing an early interest in building new ventures.

Media Appearances

Neal has no verified media appearances

Work History

10-2025
Director, Global Forward Deployed Engineering at Moveworks
11-2024 - 10-2025
Head of Professional Services at Moveworks
5-2022 - 11-2024
Regional Director, Professional Services — Strategic Accounts at Moveworks
9-2017 - 3-2018
Enterprise Security Operations at Penn State University
6-2017 - 8-2017
Sales Engineering at Splunk

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering from Penn State University
Education details unavailable from Mission San Jose High School

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Insights For Selling To Neal

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Be formal and objective, they will appreciate it more
  • Leverage facts and figures wherever possible; use percentages, numbers etc.
  • Use phrases like ‘expect X% improvement’, ‘data clearly shows’ etc.

DONT's

  • Do not use very emotional or colorful language
  • Avoid phrases like ‘trust me’, ‘others just love’ etc.
  • Make extra effort to not seem pushy or confrontational

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Neal is

  • Proof of ROI, low pricing and objective proof points are the important factors for them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Neal

  • They do not mind saying no if they believe that it is the right decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Neal move?

  • They are neither the fastest nor the slowest decision makers, they are somewhere in the middle.
  • Can Neal take some risk or not?

  • They can bear some risk if their analysis backs the decision.

You And Neal

Personality Compatibility


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