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Balaji
Yellavalli
Chief Growth Officer
QBurst
With over 20 years in professional services and systems integration, Balaji is a seasoned sales and P&L leader and trusted executive client partner across global financial services, retail, and CPG. He has sold, managed, and scaled triple-digit million-dollar businesses in consulting, digital, and business process transformation, delivering high-value outcomes. Starting with a focus on business and commercial applications, Balaji has broadened his expertise to include technology infrastructure, cloud, networks, and digital workplace. Based in the US, he also has experience in the UK and DACH markets. He has served as Executive Client Partner and Lead for Cloud Adoption across Global BFSI at HCLTech and as a Consult Partner at Kyndryl, and previously worked at Infosys and a PE-backed services firm. Balaji is passionate about technology-enabled business transformation and hyperscaler/cloud adoption and frequently writes on cloud, fintech, and automation, leveraging his domain expertise and advisor relationships to shape strategy and close large deals.
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15 April 2025 09:30 - 10:15
Panel discussion: The hidden cost of executive misalignment
For many CROs, revenue accountability is clear - but decision authority isn’t. Growth depends on tight alignment across product, marketing, finance, and operations, yet too often the CRO inherits misalignment they didn’t create and can’t easily fix. This panel explores how modern CROs move beyond surface-level collaboration to build real C-suite alignment - the kind that drives faster decisions, cleaner execution, and sustained revenue growth. Senior revenue leaders will share how they earn influence with peers, align competing priorities, and turn the C-suite into a true growth engine rather than a collection of functional silos. Attendees will walk away with: - Practical ways CROs establish shared ownership of revenue across the C-suite - Patterns for aligning strategy when incentives, metrics, and priorities don’t match - Signals that alignment is working and early warning signs when it’s not