Bharath Chari

Bharath Chari is a seasoned product marketing leader with extensive experience in developing and executing go-to-market strategies across various companies. At Confluent, Bharath served as Director of Product Marketing, successfully building the Land and Expand GTM strategies, resulting in a combined pipeline of $190 million for the Data Streaming Platform. Earlier roles included crafting a GTM strategy as Chief Marketing Officer/Advisor, which grew the customer base of a data governance resource platform by tenfold. Previous experience at IBM involved driving significant revenue through content creation and client engagement initiatives. Bharath's tenure at MKS Instruments focused on defining product vision for IoT and predictive analytics platforms. Bharath holds an MBA from Texas McCombs School of Business and a Master of Science in Nanotechnology from Louisiana State University.