Cloud communications platform Twilio has appointed Chetan Chaudhary as global vice president of partners. Among other duties he will take the lead of the Twilio Partner Program, Twilio Build.
Chaudhary has spent five years at Twilio in a variety of roles including head of channel sales and general manager of Twilio’s IoT business unit. In addition to spearheading and building Twilio’s IoT business, he led the design and development of Twilio’s channel strategy and go to market plans earlier in his tenure at Twilio.
“Faced with the unexpected search to find a new partner leader this fall, the team evaluated many options,” said George Hu, chief operating officer at Twilio. “We unanimously decided that there is no one in the market better positioned to lead Twilio’s partner team than Chetan.
“Chetan has built business units from inception to significant size multiple times at Twilio. We are excited for the future success of the partner organisation under his leadership.”
Chaudhary said: “As Twilio continues to grow rapidly and invest in new markets, partners are an increasingly important part of our ecosystem. There is a massive opportunity for partners to join forces with Twilio to redefine the communications industry, and I look forward to building on the incredible momentum we are already seeing to create a best-in-class partner organisation.”
He remains general manager of Twilio’s IoT business unit, which he built from scratch over the past three years. He previously spent eight years at Cisco in various roles including software engineering, sales operations and worldwide business development. He is also on the board of Novoscale, a systems integrator for the ServiceNow ecosystem.
