Deepak Jagannathan
Sr. Director, BU Strategic Finance at Western Digital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Sr. Director, BU Strategic Finance
2023 - Current
- Strategic Initiatives for a multi-billion dollar consumer storage business working with GM of Business Unit. - Financial Planning Process and optimization of marketing spend. - Goals, OKRs and Review cadences for measuring team and product line performances.
Western Digital helps customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Raised $901,367,000.00 from Apollo, Elliott Investment Management and Tsinghua Unisplendour Venture Capital.
Chief Financial Officer
2021 - 2022
Led finance, HR and Compliance functions (10+ people) - Built GTM processes like quote-to-cash and sales commissions. - Hired and Managed Finance, Compliance and People Teams as company grew ARR 10x; employees 3x (100+), Customers 3x (100+) - Supported CEO with Ser B Fundraising through ownership of due diligence, financial forecasts and growth investment planning culminating in $20M Ser B led by Madrona - Led internal and consultant teams towards SoC2 Compliance efforts. - Owned periodic (monthly/quarterly) investor reporting and board meeting packages.
TaskHuman is a real-time digital coaching platform that offers 1-on-1 interactive sessions with live wellness coaches through video calls.
Raised $33,000,000.00 from Synetro Group, Madrona, Margaret Georgiadis, PeopleTech Angels, U.S. Venture Partners, Hemant Thapar, Gaingels, Zoom Ventures, Propel(X) and RingCentral Ventures.
Fractional Corporate Development Leader
2020 - 2021
- M&A Strategy: Worked with CEOs/executive teams to develop thematic acquisition strategy areas that are complementary to product roadmap - M&A Pipeline Generation:Developed an acquisition pipeline with outbound efforts in thematic areas identified above. - Product Roadmap: Advised CEOs on product roadmap based on existing portfolio of customers and competitive analysis.
Principal
2018 - 2021
Generalist venture capital investor -- enterprise software, fintech, hardware and deeptech. Looking for founders raising their seed and Ser A for their B2B startup.
Sr. Associate
2015 - 2018
DNX Ventures is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
Member Board of Directors
2017 - 2021
Sourced and led investment process for DNX to lead Uplift's Ser B round in Q4 2017. Joined the board as part of the round. Acquired by Upgrade for $100M. - Warehouse lines of credit ($100M+ raised) for lending portfolio. - Partnership with 1 of the big 4 airlines. - Covid response strategy
Member Board Of Directors
2017 - 2021
Led Ser A for Haven. Acquired by FourKites in 2021. Supported executive team through: - Ser A Fundraise as lead investor and Board Member. - Executive Leadership changes. - M&A process culminating in acquisition by Fourkites.
Ser A Lead & Board Observer
2020 - 2021
Sourced and led investment process for DNX to lead Banzai's Ser A round. Joined the board as an observer as part of the round. Supported the executive team through strategy for: - Covid Response - Quarterly KPIs and OKRs. - Product Roadmap and Strategy.
Venturelabs Associate
2013 - 2013
Flagship Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with $1.4B AUM. As part of Venturelabs, the startup incubation unit of Flagship Ventures, I created investment theses in multiple areas spanning advanced materials, energy, and biotechnology domains.
Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Summer Analyst
2009 - 2009