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Awanish Joins Troopd as Co-Founder and CMO

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Awanish, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Troopd

Awanish has joined AI startup Troopd as Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, announcing the move on LinkedIn as the company prepares to launch its first product.

  • Appointee: Awanish
  • Role: Co-Founder and CMO, Troopd
  • What Troopd builds: AI-powered digital colleagues that perform complete business roles alongside teams
  • Experience: over 13 years in brand building, digital marketing and growth across IT, SaaS and edtech
  • Previously: Digital Marketing Head, Billion Careers, a Quess company, leading marketing and growth for a portfolio of SaaS products
  • Earlier: Associate Vice President, Marketing, Edureka, having started there as a Research Analyst in 2013

From Operator to Co-Founder

Awanish's own framing of Troopd centres on scope rather than efficiency, describing the company as building AI-powered digital colleagues that can perform complete business roles and work alongside teams, distinct from tools that automate a single task.

Coming in as a co-founder rather than an early hire is the notable structural detail. His path to that position ran through more than a decade of operating marketing functions rather than founding them, from a research analyst role at Edureka in 2013 up to Associate Vice President of Marketing there, and later leading marketing and growth for a portfolio of SaaS products as Digital Marketing Head at Billion Careers.

That progression, from operating marketing inside edtech and SaaS companies to co-founding an AI startup on the marketing side, is a route several marketing leaders have taken as generative AI products created a wave of new startups needing a marketing co-founder rather than an employee number one hire.

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