Anthropic has expanded its India go-to-market (GTM) team with the appointment of Surajj Gurav to its Enterprise GTM team. He will work with banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) organisations to accelerate the responsible adoption of enterprise AI. Surajj joins Anthropic’s India GTM team led by Irina Ghose.
In his new role, Surajj will partner with leading BFSI enterprises to help them adopt Anthropic’s trusted AI capabilities while addressing the industry’s regulatory, security, and governance requirements. His appointment supports the company’s focus on enabling the safe and responsible adoption of AI across enterprises.
Before joining Anthropic, Surajj served as Director – Sales, BFSI at Snowflake, where he led strategic engagements with financial institutions, helping organisations modernise data platforms and accelerate cloud-based digital transformation.
Earlier, he was Chief Revenue Officer (India) at Snapwork Technologies, where he drove enterprise growth, customer acquisition, and revenue expansion across the Indian market.
Prior to that, Surajj spent more than 3 years at Microsoft as Specialist – Business Applications, working with leading BFSI organisations to support digital transformation through Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, low-code application development, robotic process automation, and AI-enabled customer experience solutions.
Over the course of nearly 3 decades, Surajj has also held leadership roles at MicroStrategy, Equifax, IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Oracle India, Sun Microsystems India, Pre-emptive Systems, Velocis Systems, Redington India Ltd., Team Computers Pvt. Ltd., Momentum Infocare Pvt. Ltd., SSI Limited, and Datapro Infoworld Ltd. His experience spans enterprise software, cloud platforms, analytics, AI, digital transformation, middleware, business applications, and enterprise technology sales.
Throughout his career, he has partnered with organisations across banking, financial services, telecom, manufacturing, and the public sector to deliver large-scale technology transformation initiatives.
With deep expertise in enterprise AI, cloud technologies, analytics, digital transformation, customer experience, and strategic enterprise sales, Surajj will play a key role in supporting Anthropic’s continued growth across India’s BFSI sector.
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