Your deepest desire is your destiny.
– Upanishads
Rajat is the founder and CEO of Prezent – the #1 communication success and presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Powered by ASTRID - the multi-disciplinary AI communication assistant. With Prezent teams supercharge communication effectiveness by 80%, save 70% on presentations and reduce agency costs by 60%. Prezent serves tens of thousands of professionals in 80+ F2000 companies.He is also the President of PREZENTIUM, a tech-enabled presentation services firm for F2000 companies.
Prior to Prezent, Rajat was a Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems where he had P&L responsibility for Cisco's $14B CX business, led a 1000+ person team and was responsible for the Strategy, Product Management and Marketing functions. He has served in leadership roles at Mu Sigma, McKinsey & Company, and Microsoft Corporation.
He is the executive producer of “Think Deeply. Speak Simply” podcast. An active philanthropist, he is on the leadership council of No Kid Hungry and advisory board of Adruta Children’s Home. He has spoken at CES, VentureBeat and Start Up Grind. He has also been quoted in Forbes, Inc., Nasdaq, CRN, etc.
He holds an MBA degree in strategic management from Wharton, achieving Director's List honors, and a BSc degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he achieved Dean’s List honors.
Rajat has been named to Wharton Business School's "40 under 40", Silicon Valley Business Journal's "40 under 40" and Cisco's Amazing People. He holds three patents in AI and software automation.