Shankar Bhaskaran is responsible for the day to day business operations and ensuring effective alignment and collaboration between key departments within MetricStream. Over the last 15 years at MetricStream, Shankar has leveraged the unique India-US business model for outsourced delivery to onsite locations, while setting up the sales and marketing infrastructure, customer advocacy, delivery management, as well as general administration teams to support scale and go-to market.
Shankar as the head of India field operations, is primarily focused on executing the strategy and operational plans aligned to the strategic vision of the company. He works very closely with department heads on cross-functional collaboration, and consensus building among cross-functional teams, to help influence decision making and faster go-to-market. His focus is on building productive and positive relationships at all levels and ensuring the organization is running effectively and efficiently to meet its goals and objective. Moreover, he ensures that teams are providing executive level reporting, including weekly, monthly, quarterly status reports to manage risks and issues, address new opportunities and improve team communication and collaboration.
Shankar has spent over 25 years in enterprise software and technology, media and new media, and has worked with large corporations such as Time & Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Bennet & Coleman, Living Media, Double-click network, and AltaVista among others, in key marketing, corporate, and brand communication roles. Shankar was also head of business solutions for the Asia Pacific markets with Vista Enterprise Solutions.
