Seattle-based sales technology company Outreach has named Abhijit Mitra its president of product and technology.
The company announced Mitra's hire Thursday, roughly a month after its former executive vice president of engineering, Amritansh Raghav, abruptly resigned after making an insensitive comment during a staff meeting. An Outreach spokesperson said Mitra replaced Prasad Raje, Outreach's former chief product officer, but with Raghav's departure, Mitra is overseeing both product and technology.
"We wanted someone with visionary excellence to lead Outreach in our platform journey," Manny Medina, CEO and co-founder of Outreach, said in a release. "I look forward to working with Abhijit to empower every sales professional to achieve their revenue goals."
Mitra most recently spent over a year as chief product officer at the health care tech company Commure, according to his LinkedIn page. Before that, he spent about seven years at the software company ServiceNow in management roles. Earlier in his career, he had nine-year stints at SAP and Oracle.
Outreach was founded in 2014. The company, which has 6,000 clients, helps sales reps create playbooks, manage deals and analyze their sales pipelines. Its customers include Verizon, Siemens and Cisco. Outreach hit a valuation of more than $4.4 billion in June 2021 when it raised $200 million.
Since August of last year, however, Outreach has conducted four rounds of layoffs. Its most recent round of cuts was in September, when the company laid off 12% of its staff, or about 120 people. Raghav made the insensitive comment the same day the company decided on the most recent round of layoffs.
"I look forward to partnering with our customers to help them solve their biggest challenges and bring innovative products to market," Mitra said in a news release.
An Outreach spokesperson said at the time of the September layoffs the company is moving some business functions to Mexico City and India, adding that the company aims to be profitable next year. In the release announcing Mitra's hire, Outreach said Mitra "will provide pivotal leadership to Outreach's new India office."
