Rajiv Sodhi

Rajiv Sodhi says, “I am passionate about "Creating Impact". Meaningful Impact on business, on products, on society or on people is what gets me going”. His mission, these days is to help businesses drive Digital Transformation using the power of cloud, big data, IOT and Machine learning.

In 2012, he started GoDaddy in India, which was an empowering mission to bring an entire nation online by building a profitable business in India at Internet scale. In 4 years, it grew to become the largest domain and hosting player in India, with phenomenal brand recall and customer care center in India

Prior to GoDaddy, he spent 11+ years at Microsoft, which is what shaped the majority of his career and was instrumental in giving him diverse experiences. He joined Microsoft as a technology evangelist and eventually ran the SMB and Cloud business of Microsoft. He started his career by being a software developer which is one of the best ways to understand the customer objective and the magic of software.

His best work has been in ambiguous situations - and he loves bringing order to chaotic situations. “In such situations, it is not about the role or job description - it is doing whatever it takes to accomplish the goal. Typically such experiences have been gained in matrixed environments with a cross-section of people across markets, time zones and nationalities”.

Few of his interests and experiences have been along the following areas

- Indian SMB Market and the Internet industry

- Subscription based businesses, SaaS, Cloud, CPA, ARPU, Churn and related topics

- Execution excellence, operations and program management - putting ideas to work

- General management of marketing, sales, customer care, strategy and bizdev functions

- Developing people including hiring, mentoring, career management and performance management

- Evangelism and Public speaking across press, analysts, conferences and events

- Driving cross-company programs, intra-preneurship and multi-cultural, multi-timezone teams