Microsoft Veteran Pushkaraj Kale Joins iMocha as Head of Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy
Pune, India and Washington, D.C., August 24, 2022–iMocha, a business skills intelligence platform that empowers talent managers to make smarter recruitment and reskilling decisions, today announced the addition of Pushkaraj Kale, formerly of Microsoft and TheDataTeam, as its new Head of Go To Market - Strategy, Operations, and Partnership. Kale will lead iMocha’s Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy in this role.
Kale comes to iMocha with 30 years of experience in the technology and enterprise verticals, including human resources (HR) tech investment. Before joining iMocha, Kale served as the co-founder and chief operating officer (COO) of TheDataTeam, where he spearheaded all customer-facing functions and played a pivotal role in scaling the business. He was deeply involved in HR, Legal, and Operations. Before that, Kale was the country director for Microsoft’s Financial Services organization. He was instrumental in building growth and partnership teams that enabled multi-fold revenue growth for Microsoft in India. He is also a founder of Kaleidoscope Advisors.
At iMocha, Kale will be working cross-functionally to build and execute all GTM initiatives. He will also strengthen the partnership and alliance channels to align them closely with iMocha’s enterprise-focused growth strategy.
“I am delighted to join iMocha, as I share their vision of building a world-class enterprise SaaS platform that addresses the challenges of finding the right skilled talent,” said Pushkaraj Kale. “We are already seeing Fortune 500 companies put their faith in iMocha’s skills intelligence platform to solve their critical talent challenges. I look forward to bringing iMocha’s unique skills intelligence platform to a larger enterprise audience.”
“I warmly welcome Pushkaraj to our team at iMocha,” said Amit Mishra, Co-founder and CEO of iMocha. “He is an impactful leader, and his appointment underlines our growth ambitions for the skills intelligence platform that we have built. With an impressive track record of growing revenue teams, expanding businesses with partnerships, and more importantly, scaling businesses with an enterprise focus, Pushkaraj will strengthen our management team and help us to scale to the next level.”
Founded in 2015, iMocha has been investing significantly in technology, product, and leadership expansion over the past year to augment its growth engine. With continued demand in the enterprise for skills intelligence solutions and finding the right talent, iMocha is well positioned to scale faster. iMocha's growth is further fuelled by the widening skills gap and the imminent need for solutions that help talent teams engage and assess talent, identify skills gaps, and improve the adoption of learning programs.
About iMocha
iMocha provides a skills intelligence platform that empowers talent managers to make smarter talent decisions from hiring to retirement. Enterprises leverage iMocha’s platform to hire job-fit candidates faster (Talent Acquisition) & measure the ROI of their L&D programs (Talent Development).
Leading enterprises in 70 countries trust iMocha for recruitment and upskilling programs. Talent managers can assess candidates and employees for technical, functional, and soft skills using the world's most extensive skill library of 2500+ skills across 300+ job roles.
For more information, visit imocha.io.