Bhaskar Roy

Helping businesses transform themselves with integration and automation.

Los Altos, California, United States

About

Bhaskar brings more than 20 years of experience in building innovative products and taking them to market. He is an entrepreneur and a proven leader with startup experience (like PlaceWare, Qik), an advisor to startups as well as leading groups within large organizations, like Oracle, Microsoft and HP. Businesses are adopting software like never before. Today, we have hundreds of apps for every type of business function and every business, including SMBs, use a large number of apps. As good as these apps are, they do not work well together. Workato's vision is to bring an enterprise-class integration platform to businesses of all sizes. Prior to Workato, Bhaskar was the CPO of Playphone, which was acquired by Gung Ho. And prior to that, he was the Founder and SVP of Products at Qik. Qik was acquired by Skype in January of 2011 by Microsoft. At Skype, Bhaskar was Head of Qik Products where he led the charter to bring asynchronous communications and new mobile experiences in Skype.

Experience

  • Workato (11 yrs 10 mos)
    • Chief of AI Products & Solutions
      May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • CMO
      Jul 2016 - May 2024 · 7 yrs 11 mos

    • Investor & Advisor
      Oct 2014 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Investor at Quibb
    Apr 2014 - Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Investor at MindMeld, Inc (acquired by Cisco)
    Jun 2011 - May 2017 · 6 yrs

  • Playphone (3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Board Member
      May 2016 - Oct 2016 · 6 mos

    • Chief Product Officer
      Feb 2013 - Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Lead product vision, strategy, design, engineering and execution at PlayPhone, a global mobile social gaming platform powering game stores primarily in the growth markets.

  • Head of Qik Products at Skype (acquired by Microsoft)
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for integration of Qik products and technology into Skype post-acquisition. Responsible for introducing asynchronous communications, like video messaging, in Skype. Skype was acquired by Microsoft in October 2011 for $8.5B.