# Prasad Raje

> Prasad Raje is a serial founder turned enterprise product executive who built and sold two SaaS startups before rising to C-suite roles at RingCentral, Outreach, and Udemy - and is now SVP Product Management at Salesforce, where he works at the center of the GenAI/Agentforce revolution. With a Ph.D. from Stanford, 9 patents, and a career arc spanning three decades of cloud software, he is one of the rare operators who has been a founder, a CEO, and a CPO before landing at the world's leading CRM company.

- **Role:** Senior Vice President Product Management at Salesforce
- **Organizations:** Salesforce, Udemy, Outreach, RingCentral, StatX Inc., Instantis Inc., Oracle, ACM CAIS 2026
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Founded Instantis Inc. in 1999 - one of the first cloud/SaaS PPM companies - and sold it to Oracle in 2012, Co-founded StatX with Pablo Bellver (co-creator of Google Now); raised $2.5M seed round, Holds 9 patents across software and technology

## Career timeline

- **1986** — Graduated B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay
- **1988** — Completed M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
- **1991** — Earned Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
- **1999** — Founded Instantis Inc., one of the earliest cloud/SaaS Project Portfolio Management companies
- **2012** — Sold Instantis to Oracle; joined Oracle as VP, Product Strategy
- **2014** — Left Oracle; co-founded StatX Inc., a mobile analytics app for Salesforce (raised $2.5M seed)
- **2018** — StatX acquired by TapClicks; joined RingCentral as SVP Product Management
- **2022** — Joined Outreach as inaugural Chief Product Officer (January 2022)
- **2023** — Joined Udemy as inaugural Chief Product Officer (August 2023)
- **2024** — Transitioned from Udemy CPO role (October 2024)
- **2025** — Joined Salesforce as Senior Vice President, Product Management

## Achievements

- Founded Instantis Inc. in 1999 - one of the first cloud/SaaS PPM companies - and sold it to Oracle in 2012
- Co-founded StatX with Pablo Bellver (co-creator of Google Now); raised $2.5M seed round
- Holds 9 patents across software and technology
- First-ever Chief Product Officer at Outreach (Sales Execution Platform)
- First-ever Chief Product Officer at Udemy (world's largest online learning marketplace)
- Co-organizer of inaugural ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS 2026)
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University
- Authored influential LinkedIn Pulse article 'The GenAI Supply Chain' (Sep 2025) framing GenAI as a 6-layer stack

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Joined Salesforce as Senior Vice President, Product Management
- **2025-09** — Published 'The GenAI Supply Chain: Who is selling what to whom?' on LinkedIn Pulse, framing GenAI as a six-layer stack
- **2026-05** — Co-organizing inaugural ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS 2026) in San Jose, CA (May 26-29, 2026)

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasadraje/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/prraje

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