Cherishma Shah

VP, GTM Strategy & Operations, Box · 1 appearance on the record.

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Cherishma Shah is the Vice President of GTM Strategy & Operations at Box. She previously held senior go-to-market strategy and operational leadership roles at companies including Guild Education and Brex.

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Opinion
Shah: Enablement is an integral part of revenue operations
“And then finally, I would be remiss not to mention enablement. And this is something that I have seen come in and out of sometimes like a rev ops function. However, I believe enablement is an integral part of revenue operations. Because it has not just like th…”
Cherishma Shah Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 9:53 CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah
Insight
Shah: The strongest RevOps hires are generalists, not domain specialists
“The strongest people I have seen in this role, even people who eventually become go deep in systems or enablement are generalists.”
Cherishma Shah Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 26:19 CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah
Insight
Shah: RevOps differs from sales ops by spanning the entire customer journey
“That said, I think it's also important to call out that this is incremental to what is, what a traditional sales ops or marketing ops function looks like because revenue operations essentially touches multiple functions across the sales cycle, right? All the w…”
Cherishma Shah Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 8:28 CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah
Insight
Shah: Delaying a RevOps hire makes fixing processes far more costly
“Oftentimes what happens is when certain things get embedded in the org, changing them becomes much harder, right? And also not just an intensive, right? Resource intensive, right?”
Cherishma Shah Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 24:50 CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah
Insight
Shah: Validate sales processes manually before codifying them into software tools
“Oftentimes what you want to do is make sure you have the right process Before you put it in the system, right? Like you need to define the sales methodology before you put it in the system. You need to define like, and so what you will likely do is you will do…”
Cherishma Shah Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 38:01 CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah
Disclosure
Shah: Guild's GTM ops function reports to the CFO
“At Guild. We report to the CFO.”
Cherishma Shah Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 30:14 CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cher Apr 5, 2023 30m
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