Gowrish Prabhu.
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About Gowrish

Working across
the boundaries.

Technology. AI. Marketing. Operations. The most interesting work often happens where they meet.

I am Vice President and Head of Digital Marketing at Firstsource, based in Bengaluru. My work spans digital growth, MarTech, CRM, demand generation and AI-enabled marketing operations.

My work with AI did not begin with generative AI.

At Accenture, I worked across AI/ML operations, solution development, supervised-learning platforms, computer vision, natural language generation and natural language processing, alongside analytics and business operations.

Later, at Schneider Electric, my work included the assessment, incubation and industrialization of Digital marketing platforms, and AI solutions in pricing and commercial contexts.

Today, AI increasingly sits inside the marketing operating model itself: influencing how teams work, how content and campaigns are produced, how data is used, how decisions are made, and how marketing operations are designed.

That progression has made me particularly interested in a question that goes beyond AI tools:

How does an organization turn AI from an experiment into a durable business capability?

The map is not the territory.

A strategy, pilot or roadmap describes an intended future. Organisations live in the more complicated world of incentives, capabilities, competing priorities and human behaviour. Closing that gap is the recurring thread in my work and writing.

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Apr 2025 – present

Firstsource

Vice President Marketing

Digital growth across MarTech, CRM, demand generation and AI-enabled marketing operations.

Nov 2024 – Apr 2025

Datawrkz

Post Merger Integration Consultant

Led the integration programme for the acquisition of SpaceAndTime, spanning growth, operations, finance, people and technology.

Jul 2024 – Apr 2025

Independent

Marketing Consultant

MarTech stack auditing and post-merger integration.

Jul 2022 – Jun 2024

Schneider Electric

Director – Digital Analytics, Global Marketing

Global customer data platform and GA4 rollout, MarTech integration, and AI solution incubation in commercial and pricing domains.

Sep 2013 – Jul 2022

Accenture

Marketing, analytics, AI/ML and operations leadership

Capability building, analytics advisory, geospatial operations, AI/ML account management, and marketing analytics solution architecture and GTM.

Aug 2012 – Sep 2013

Customer Centria

Vice President, Marketing – Products

Product strategy, positioning, pricing and go-to-market execution.

May 2009 – Aug 2012

Infrasoft Technologies

Senior Manager and Head, Marketing

Market development, enterprise technology positioning and go-to-market programmes.

2002 – 2008

Infosys Technologies

Programmer Analyst; Project Manager

Technology delivery and project leadership across retail, distribution and consumer packaged goods.

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

PGPX, Business Management · 2008–2009

Warwick Business School

Exchange student, Marketing and Strategy · 2008

RV College of Engineering

B.E., Electronics & Communication

The classroom sharpens the questions. Time outside work changes the perspective.

Teaching

Away from work: photography, travel, motorcycling and nature.

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