John Varughese

Background

About John Varughese

Senior executive with expertise across high tech and internet spaces. Effective as a partner to CEOs and Boards of Directors given ability to develop strategic priorities. • Significant entrepreneurial experience as well as leading and motivating high performance teams. • Experience in positioning companies and identifying key strategic opportunities and challenges. • Strong ability to translate critical industry dynamics into business model impacts. Well versed in financial modeling, developing credible financial forecasts as well as managing capital structures. • Deep expertise developing strategy and rationale for corporate transformations, as well as driving alignment across varied constituents. • Extensive experience leading internal company and external cross functional teams as well as driving process on complex financial and strategic issues. • Public markets expertise, including shareholder communications, Initial public offerings, equity and debt financings, m&a and corporate development. • Initiated relationships that resulted in transactions for: Google, Oracle, HP, PwC, IBM, Cisco, Blackberry, and Marsh & McLennan. • Represented technology industry clients in critical strategic negotiations with Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Yahoo, AT & T and HP.