Siva G.

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Chief Technology Officer at Harvey

San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Overview

Siva is a cross-functional engineering leader, currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Harvey. He has a notable history of scaling companies, having grown Motives engineering team by 20x and its ARR by 10x. His expertise lies in leveraging machine learning for growth, a skill he used to help turn around Twitters trajectory. Colleagues describe him as innovative and quick-learning.

He is an engineering leader who thinks security-first when designing solutions for enterprise customers and is passionate about building a strong company culture where employees feel invested.

He scaled Motive by launching over five multi-product lines, with two of them achieving more than $200 million in ARR.

Personality Overview

Value Driven

Example Seeker

Curious

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.  They ask a lot of questions and rely heavily on information and collaterals. They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince.

Topics They Care About

AI in Legal Services
As the CTO of Harvey, he is focused on solving complex professional services work for Fortune 1000 customers through artificial intelligence.
Agentic AI Search
He recently shared his perspective on how agentic search is reshaping legal research by planning, reasoning, and iterating to find useful results.
Scaling Eng Teams
He has a proven track record of scaling teams, having expanded Motive's engineering organization by 20x and previously leading multiple relevance teams at Twitter.

Media Appearances

5 Questions With Siva Gurumurthy. Featured in Harvey Blog

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Inside Harvey's Global Expansion: CTO Siva Gurumurthy on Why .... Featured in TechTalent.ca

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Work History

5-2025
Chief Technology Officer at Harvey
11-2018 - 5-2025
Chief Technology Officer at Motive
2-2013 - 11-2018
Director of Engineering at Twitter
1-2012 - 10-2013
Discovery & Relevance at Twitter
6-2008 - 2-2012
Senior Research engineer at Yahoo!

Education

2006 - 2008
Masters from University of Massachusetts Amherst
2001 - 2005
Btech from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

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Exp : 18 Location : San Francisco Bay Area, United States Job Level : Leadership Designation : Chief Technology Officer at Harvey
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Insights For Selling To Siva

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Help them understand the risk aspect fully while inspiring confidence
  • Focus on immediate action-items rather than the larger goals
  • Invite them for a social do but don’t rely solely on the relationship

DONT's

  • Don’t brush off any concerns, take all questions seriously
  • Don’t rely excessively on your relationship with them to win the deal
  • Avoid making offhand commitments

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Siva is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important for them, rapport can impact decisions a little.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Siva

  • They are practical and friendly, don't expect a clear-cut response often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Siva move?

  • They like to perform full analysis and can take time to make any decision.
  • Can Siva take some risk or not?

  • They weigh all decisions systematically and are unlikely to take many risks.

You And Siva

Personality Compatibility


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