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Vignesh
Shanmugam
Director, Customer Success
Oracle
Vignesh is a seasoned senior management professional with over 26 years of experience in customer success, support delivery, contact centers, and strategic operations across enterprise and consumer segments. He has led diverse, high-performing teams across Global English, Asia Pacific, and Japan, serving multicultural and multilingual customer bases. Currently, he heads Oracle's Restaurants Customer Success for North America, Asia Pacific, and Japan. In this role, he drives global and strategic initiatives focused on enhancing customer experience. Vignesh is known for his passion for delivering impactful, end-to-end customer engagement and building long-term client relationships.
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27 October 2026 11:15 - 11:45
Fireside chat | One size fails all: Rethinking CS for SMB, mid-market, and enterprise
The job of "customer success" looks completely different depending on the company you're doing it at. At a startup, CS is often one generalist reporting straight to the CEO, doing onboarding, support, and renewals all at once. At mid-market, roles start splitting out and CS Ops becomes necessary just to stop everyone from reinventing process on every account. At enterprise, CS is a multi-layered function with dedicated ops, tooling, and journey-stage specialists. Lorenzo Serva breaks down what actually changes internally at each stage, and the transitions that catch CS leaders off guard. Key subtopics: - The generalist-to-specialist shift: when to split onboarding, support, and renewals into distinct roles - Why CS Ops becomes non-negotiable once a team passes about 5 CSMs - Reporting lines: CS under the CEO vs. under a CCO vs. buried in sales - Tooling maturity: spreadsheets and CRM, to a CS platform, to a fully integrated data stack - What breaks when a growing company keeps its startup-era CS structure too long For any CS leader who has inherited a structure built for a company three sizes ago, this session offers a practical read on which changes to make, and when, from someone navigating that evolution directly.