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Venkatraman Krishnamoorthy (Venkat)

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Senior Director - Sales and Strategic Alliance at Freshworks
📍 Greater Chennai Area, India

Venkatraman Krishnamoorthy is the Senior Director of Sales and Strategic Alliances for the MEA region at Freshworks. With over two decades of experience, he specializes in SaaS sales, GTM strategy, and scaling business operations, currently managing a book of business exceeding $40 million. Colleagues describe him as energetic, determined, and a great listener.

Interesting fact: He won the President Club Award for achieving 153% of his 2023 quota across the Middle East and Africa.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Senior Director - Sales and Strategic Alliance
Job Level
Senior
Location
Greater Chennai Area, India
Personality Overview

How Venkatraman shows up

Decisive But Friendly
Driven But Considerate
Friendly But Fast

If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders)

Priorities

Topics Venkatraman cares about

Partner-Led Growth
He believes in a partner-centric GTM motion for the MEA region, emphasizing that partners should "own the customer" relationship to drive deep market penetration and mutual growth.
AI in Customer Experience
Advocates for using AI to enhance, not replace, human engagement. He focuses on how AI can deflect basic queries and help create a "wow factor" for customers.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Senior Director - Sales and Strategic Alliance
Freshworks
1-2025 - 6-2025
Director - Sales and Strategic Partner Alliance
Freshworks
4-2022 - 12-2024
Director - Middle East & Africa
Freshworks
1-2016 - 11-2020
Sales Head - Major Business and Cloud Services
ADP
9-2014 - 12-2015
National Sales Leader - SBS
ADP
In the press

Media appearances

Venkatraman Krishnamoorthy Appointed as Director - Sales and Strategic Partner Alliance at Freshworks. Featured in HR Today
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Education
2019 - 2020
Strategic Management
Metropolitan School of Business & Management (UK)
2003 - 2005
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
SCSVMV Deemed University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

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