Sheela Zemlin

Former PwC, Bill.com, Taleo Oracle, Commercial Executive / Board Advisor

Fusion Expert Network Member

Sheela has been a successful commercial executive for a number of hypergrowth Silicon Valley SaaS, Fintech and Enterprise AI companies which have scaled to unicorn status and public companies, such as Bill.com, Bakkt and Neoforma. In these roles, she led sales, channels, customer success, revenue operations, market intelligence and demand generation. In addition, she led global operations and strategy for the go-to-market function of Taleo, leading up to and after its $2B acquisition by Oracle.

Sheela also helped to launch the corporate venture group at the global consultancy PwC as a Partner and Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, she co-led the firm’s investments in, acted as operating executive and served on the boards of the eight incubated software startups assisting with routes to market, monetization, organizational design and scaling strategies.

Sheela is currently an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School where she serves as a visiting lecturer and student coach in the full-time MBA courses Entrepreneurial Sales and Decoding Growth in Silicon Valley.

Sheela has served as a Corporate Board Director of Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC) and currently acts as a board advisor to a number of early stage technology companies.

She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Michigan State University.