Raunak Khetan has been appointed as Cloud GTM Partnerships Lead at Anthropic, bringing over 15 years of experience across cloud computing, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, business development, and go-to-market strategy. In his new role, he will lead Anthropic’s cloud GTM partnership strategy in India, helping scale the adoption of Claude through strategic collaborations across leading cloud ecosystems. As the only frontier AI model available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, Claude is uniquely positioned to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, and Raunak will play a key role in expanding Anthropic’s presence in India.
Prior to joining Anthropic, Raunak built partnership organizations from the ground up across India and APAC at Cockroach Labs, Redis, and Google Cloud. As the first partnerships hire in several of these organizations, he successfully established and scaled strategic alliances with hyperscalers, global system integrators, ISVs, and cloud marketplaces, driving high-growth GTM initiatives and long-term ecosystem expansion.
Earlier, Raunak held leadership roles at Google, where he built India’s ISV ecosystem and led technology partnerships, while also contributing to the early growth of Google Cloud Platform in India. Before Google, he was associated with Microsoft India in enterprise cloud sales, account management, and partner development. He began his professional journey at HCL Infosystems, building expertise in enterprise sales, key
account management, and business development. With a rare combination of hyperscaler experience and startup scaling expertise, Raunak is well positioned to help Anthropic accelerate its growth and AI partnerships across India.