Sanket Atal

Senior VP & MD, Sites (India), Salesforce

Sanket is instrumental in driving the next phase of growth for Salesforce in India making it a global hub for talent and innovation. Combining the best of design thinking and digital strategies Sanket will work with teams to build breakthrough customer experiences leveraging his passion for innovation to deliver future-ready solutions accelerating growth for Salesforce in India.

Prior to Salesforce, Sanket was with Intuit where he played a strategic role to further its mission of “powering prosperity around the world”.

In his previous role as Group Vice President at Oracle, he was responsible for the R&D organizations in Bangalore, NCR, Pune, and St. Petersburg. He had also founded the global program. His tenure at Oracle began in 1996 as a founding member of the Research and Development center in Portland, Oregon. Sanket moved to India in 2006 with Oracle where he led R&D. In 2012, Sanket became the Chief Technology Officer of MakeMyTrip.com, India’s largest online travel company.

An MBA from the University of Oregon and MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, he also completed Dual Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell University. He also holds multiple patents.