# Gautham Viswanathan

> Gautham Viswanathan is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Workato, an enterprise automation company he helped start in 2013 after a long career building integration software. An early TIBCO employee, he helped create BusinessWorks, then founded and led two SaaS ventures before reuniting with former colleagues to build Workato around a more accessible, community-driven model of integration. His public argument is consistent: the neglected majority of everyday business processes should be within reach of the people who understand them, with governance intact and AI lowering the barrier further.

- **Role:** Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Workato
- **Organizations:** Workato, TIBCO Software, iProfile, Blink Interactive
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Madras, Master's degree, Iowa State University
- **Known for:** Helped create TIBCO BusinessWorks, an early integrated middleware platform that influenced later cloud integration products., Co-founded Workato in 2013 and leads its product organization., Helped develop AI@Work, Workato's generative-AI product initiative announced in 2023.

## Career timeline

- **1995-2007** — Worked at TIBCO in engineering, product management and corporate development leadership; helped create BusinessWorks.
- **2007-2009** — Founded Blink Interactive.
- **2009-2013** — Served as CEO of iProfile, a SaaS company focused on data and behavior for enterprise sales and marketing.
- **2013** — Co-founded Workato with Vijay Tella, Harish Shetty and Dimitris Kogias.
- **2019** — Co-authored Workato's announcement of a $70 million Series C to expand its enterprise automation platform.
- **2021** — Workato raised a $200 million Series E at a $5.7 billion valuation.
- **2022** — A Workato patent naming Viswanathan as an inventor for an intelligent, adaptable multi-application automation bot was issued.
- **2023** — Helped introduce AI@Work, including Workato Copilots and WorkbotGPT.
- **2024** — Named Best Product Leader - Midsize Company in the Product 50 program.

## Achievements

- Helped create TIBCO BusinessWorks, an early integrated middleware platform that influenced later cloud integration products.
- Co-founded Workato in 2013 and leads its product organization.
- Helped develop AI@Work, Workato's generative-AI product initiative announced in 2023.
- Named the Product 50 Best Product Leader - Midsize Company in 2024.
- Named as an inventor on US Patent 11,368,415 for a trainable bot that orchestrates workflows across multiple applications.
- Named on US Patent 9,811,394 concerning API recipe cloning and adaptation.

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Presented product updates as Workato's Chief Product Officer during a company product and practitioner program.
- **2024-03** — Named Product 50 Best Product Leader - Midsize Company by a judging panel from Amplitude, G2 and Reforge.
- **2023-11** — Co-hosted a Bay Area Product Leader Forum discussion with LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen on generative AI and product roadmaps.
- **2023-06** — Helped launch AI@Work, including Workato Copilots, AI connectors and the announced WorkbotGPT experience.

## Links

- Website: https://www.workato.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautham-viswanathan-6aa995
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/workato
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO7hUdTnvdA
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/workato

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Last updated: 2026-09-28