About this interview

This episode of ITOM Spotlight features Girish Bhat, Senior VP of GTM at Revifi. A Silicon Valley thinker with experience across engineering, product management, marketing, and go-to-market, he brings a seasoned perspective to the challenges endured by enterprise IT—from change management and skill gaps to security and data management—along with sharp takes on modern disciplines like agentic IT, observability, and more.

We discussed

  • What's remained constant through decades of IT evolution
  • The four guiding pillars for modern IT operations
  • Justifying changes in the tech stack and quantifying their business impact
  • The real way to close the IT skill gap
  • Why observability and security are converging
  • Data management best practices for hybrid environments
  • The role of agentic AI in shaping the next era of IT operations
  • How to evaluate IT management tools beyond cost and features

About the speaker

Girish Bhat

Girish Bhat is Senior Vice President of GTM at Revefi, leading global marketing, growth, RevOps, and go-to-market strategies for AI-driven data observability solutions. With over 20 years of experience spanning companies such as Splunk, Sumo Logic, Acceldata, MobileIron, Cisco, and NetScout, he has scaled security, observability, DevOps, and ML/AI businesses from startup to multi-billion-dollar revenue, including IPOs and M&A.

 

A frequent speaker at HMG Strategy Summits and C-Vision events, Girish shares insights on agentic AI in data management, FinOps optimization, and bridging technical innovation with business value for CIOs and CDOs.