Workato adds new leaders amid ambitious growth plans

Workato has announced two significant appointments to its leadership team, reflecting the company's ongoing expansion and commitment to innovation. Chandar Pattabhiram has been named as the firm's first Chief Go-to-Market Officer, while Bhagat Nainani will assume the role of Head of Product and Engineering.

The appointments come at a time when Workato is experiencing accelerated growth. The company, known for its AI-driven enterprise orchestration platform, aims to leverage these leadership changes to advance its mission of assisting customers and partners in achieving innovation, empowerment, and scalability.

Vijay Tella, Co-founder and CEO of Workato, expressed his enthusiasm for the new hires. "We are fortunate to have experienced several milestones this year, from being named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for iPaaS to announcing our Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS. We pride ourselves on striving for success and being an eclectic group of individuals," Tella said. "We are thrilled to celebrate and welcome new leaders across teams to support Workato's continued growth. Chandar and Bhagat each bring unique expertise as we continue to cement ourselves as the leading enterprise orchestration platform."

Chandar Pattabhiram, who will oversee strategic Go-to-Market (GTM) and transformation, marketing, field readiness, and North American partnerships, brings over 25 years of experience to his new role. His career includes significant stints at Marketo and Coupa. During his tenure at Coupa, Pattabhiram scaled the company from approximately USD $150 million to nearing USD $1 billion in revenue.

"When you look at a company at the simplest level, take a lemonade stand for example, however sophisticated the business is, the lemonade better be good. It was clear from the beginning that Workato has the best lemonade in the enterprise orchestration category," Pattabhiram remarked. "The market opportunity for integration and orchestration platforms is immense and essential. In this world of AI, companies across all industries must orchestrate their business processes across applications in the simplest and fastest way possible. With an incredible foundation in place, we're going to be able to scale at speed, bringing all facets of the go-to-market organisation together. I'm excited to join this journey with the Workato team, to create lasting change and opportunity."

Bhagat Nainani joins Workato as the Head of Product and Engineering. His extensive background includes managing international teams to deliver high-quality enterprise products and business applications. Most recently, Nainani was at SAP, where he was responsible for application development, automation, and integration products on the SAP Business Technology Platform.

Nainani shared his thoughts on joining Workato, stating, "I'm proud to be joining the Product and Engineering team at Workato when AI innovation is pushing the boundaries of automation and integration. Workato has been in a period of rapid growth, which creates a unique opportunity to deliver an AI-enabled orchestration platform. Building a product that enables our customers and partners to empower their teams and scale across their organisations at speed is one of the reasons why I'm thrilled to be joining."

Workato's platform enables enterprises to transform their business operations by orchestrating business processes end-to-end and operationalising AI across the entire organisation. The platform is designed for both IT and business users, offering best-in-class security and governance, scalability, performance, and availability. Workato's low-code, no-code platform simplifies the integration of applications, data, and experiences for its users.