Guru Hires Sunny Manivannan as Vice President of Marketing

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June 29, 2018

Enterprise Software Entrepreneur and Executive Joins Guru to Lead Marketing Strategy and Operations

Guru, the AI-powered Revenue Empowerment Network, announced that Sunny Manivannan has joined the company as vice president of marketing, reporting to Guru co-founder and CEO, Rick Nucci.

“Sunny is a proven leader and entrepreneurial executive,” said Rick Nucci, co-founder and CEO at Guru.

Rick added, “He comes to Guru with significant expertise in developing and executing winning go-to-market strategies and a track record of energizing and mobilizing others to act. In addition, Sunny truly lives our core values and believes in empowering everyone around him to do their best work, which makes him a natural fit for Guru and our growing community of employees, customers, and partners.”

Sunny will lead Guru’s marketing and go-to-market strategy and execution as the company scales. He joins Guru from Coupa Software, where he was most recently the vice president of product marketing. Sunny also held various other roles at Coupa across business operations, go-to-market strategy, and product management, including serving as general manager of Coupa’s expense management business unit. Sunny joined Coupa in February 2015 when Coupa acquired ZenPurchase, an enterprise sourcing and procurement SaaS company led and co-founded by Sunny.

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Sunny Manivannan

“I am honored to join the Guru team, and look forward to helping us advance our mission of empowering revenue teams around the world,” said Sunny Manivannan.

Sunny added, “Knowledge is the currency for success for any individual or team trying to grow their company’s revenue, and no other solution delivers the right knowledge at the right time like Guru does. A future in which every revenue team around the world uses Guru is a future full of delightful customer experiences. I want to be a part of this future, and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to build it with the Guru team.”

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