Gaurav Deshpande is Chief Marketing Officer at Aerospike, where he leads global marketing across brand, demand generation, product marketing, communications, and partnerships. He brings nearly 30 years of experience in scaling enterprise software companies, with a strong focus on data, AI, and go-to-market strategy.

Prior to Aerospike, Gaurav held marketing leadership roles at HyperTrack, TigerGraph, and IBM. He helped grow TigerGraph from $100K to over $30M in ARR and led IBM’s big data and AI portfolio to $4B in annual revenue. He also played key roles in scaling i2 Technologies to $750M and in Trigo Technologies’ acquisition by IBM.