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Ramya
Sugumar
VP, CX Partner Services
Braze
Ramya Sugumar is a VP of Customer Experience and Partner Services at Braze, with extensive experience scaling delivery organizations, services P&Ls, and customer outcomes. She specialises in AI-enabled operations, product-led and partner-led delivery, and customer experience at scale. Ramya has led major transformations including Braze’s IPO journey, M&A integration, and the shift toward scalable partner-led delivery models. She is also passionate about developing leaders and building delivery organizations that can scale without proportional headcount growth.
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24 September 2026 15:45 - 16:15
From delivery org to value engine: What it actually takes to scale without scaling headcount
Most delivery organisations grow the same way: more customers means more headcount, more project managers, more manual touchpoints. Eventually that model breaks. In this session, Ramya Sugumar will share how she rebuilt a traditional delivery function into a scalable customer value engine. Drawing on experience scaling enterprise SaaS organisations through IPOs and M&A, she'll unpack the levers that made it possible: cutting time-to-value nearly in half, doubling customer activation in the first 90 days, and shifting her team's highest-impact people onto the work that actually drives retention and expansion. Key learnings: - How to turn delivery from a cost centre CCOs defend into a revenue engine they get credit for - The exact levers that cut time-to-value nearly in half, and how to apply them without adding headcount - How to double activation in the first 90 days by fixing the handoff between sales, delivery and success - Where to deploy your highest-impact people once automation takes manual work off their plate