Sham Sao, Chief Marketing Officer

Sham leads marketing, communications, product management, and product marketing at Virtual Computer. He brings deep experience in Software and Technology and demonstrated success leading high-growth companies in functions including Marketing, Product Management, Business & Corporate Development, Strategy, and M&A.

Prior to joining Virtual Computer, Sham served as CMO of OneSource, a division of Infogroup. At OneSource, he led a Global Marketing Team supporting sales teams in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He also developed the idea for and launched a new web-based offering that grew unique visitors to the website from 40,000 per month to nearly 1,000,000 per month. Sham played a key role as part of a team that launched a new software offering that included new capabilities such as sales triggering and role-based personalization.

Previously, Sham served as Global Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Deploy Solutions, a leading provider of software and hardware-based workforce solutions. At Deploy, he drove consistent pipeline and revenue growth resulting in the company winning a spot on the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 list for high-growth companies, and ultimately being sold to Kronos. In addition to leading Marketing and Business Development, Sham also led Corporate Development. He identified and drove Deploy’s acquisition of Humetrics and then helped grow it to become the largest revenue stream for Deploy.

He has served in executive positions at companies ranging in size from startups to well over a hundred million in revenues, including companies such as Partnerware and Trilogy. Prior to working in operational roles at technology companies, he was a consulting team leader at McKinsey & Company, where he led multi-million dollar consulting engagements for Fortune 500 companies in industries including Technology, Media, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Financial Services.

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University. He attended Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, where he earned a J.D. in technology law and served as an Editor on the Journal of Law & Technology.

– Sham Sao Profile