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Arvind Krishna (born 1962) is an Indian-American business executive serving as Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman & CEO in January 2021. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. He was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the Company’s history.

Rajiv is the President and CEO of Nutanix. He joined in December, 2020 from VMware, where he served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services. Prior to this role, Rajiv led VMware’s Networking and Security business, one of the fastest-growing units in the company, as executive vice president and general manager. Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom, where he established Broadcom as a leader in data center, enterprise and carrier networking. In his prior General Manager roles at Cisco, he led multibillion dollar product lines in switching, data center and storage and optical networking. Earlier in his career, he held various leadership positions at Nortel, Tellabs and IBM. Rajiv earned his BTech in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and his Master’s and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and holds 36 patents, primarily in optical networking.

Safra A. Catz (Hebrew: צפרא כץ, born December 1, 1961) is an Israeli-American billionaire banker and technology executive. She is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999, and a board member since 2001. In April 2011, she was named co-president and chief financial officer (CFO), reporting to founder Larry Ellison. In September 2014, Oracle announced that Ellison would step down as CEO and that Mark Hurd and Catz had been named as joint CEOs. In December 2019, Oracle stated that Catz would be the sole CEO after Hurd's death.

Kevin is the Chief Executive Officer at Rackspace, the industry leader in managed services across applications, data, security and infrastructure on the world’s leading cloud platforms. Rackspace works with companies across all industries to accelerate and execute digital transformation of their technology infrastructure. With more than 30 years’ experience in the technology services sector, Kevin has been a change leader with a track record of leading significant business transformations. He is a passionate advocate for employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, and believes that people and culture are a key differentiator in business. Prior to joining Rackspace, Kevin was Chief Executive Officer of MV Transportation where he and his team achieved the highest revenue in the company’s history, increased new business sales by 440% and achieved record levels of profitability. He also held global leadership roles at EDS, Dell, HPE (roles before and after the company split in 2014) and DXC. He has consistently driven double-digit revenue growth and profitability throughout his career. Most recently, Kevin was named to the Business Journals’ “Influencers: People We’re Watching in 2020.” Kevin received his BBA from James Madison University and serves as a board member for Rackspace and Mood Media. He is an avid tennis player, triathlete, golfer, runner, husband and father of two boys. For more technology insights, visit the Rackspace Digital Hub at: www.Rackspace.com/solve to hear perspectives from industry luminaries, including technologists, futurists, partners, customers and other influencers.

Jeff Kukowski has extensive operating experience selling products and services to law enforcement. He currently is CEO and a director of Cloudbolt Software, an enterprise cloud management leader. From June 2010 to December 2014, he was Chief Operating Officer of Axon Enterprise, Inc., formerly Taser International.

Michael Tso holds 36 patents and has been a technology trailblazer in enterprise data systems and mobile infrastructure for over 25 years. Michael co-founded Cloudian and grew it into a world leader in enterprise big data management. Michael also co-founded Gemini Mobile Technologies, who supplied to large Telcos the most scalable, mission critical mobile messaging systems. At search engine pioneer Inktomi, Michael led engineering for an e-commerce search engine, and designed a network congestion control system for KDDI which later became an industry standard. At Intel, he developed web acceleration technology and collaborated with Nokia on NarrowBand Sockets, commonly known as SmartMessaging, which enabled the world's first SMS ringtone download service. Michael also invented the core patents for mobile data synchronization that seeded IntelliSync which grew into a multi-billion-dollar business. Michael was part of the Ubiquitous Computing research team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where he helped develop PARCTab - the world's first wireless, location aware, wearable touch tablet. Michael graduated from MIT with an MS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, BS in Computer Science, BS in Electrical Engineering, and a minor in Economics. While at MIT, Michael worked under TCP/IP patriarch Dr. David Clark on distributed file systems for intermittent network connectivity.

International Chief Executive Officer with extensive experience growing sales ans profits for global companies. Leading Enterprise Software Business to Excellence and High growth. Julien is a successful entrepreneur, catalyst for growth and an inspiration for Leadership. Julien has more than 25 years of experience in the High-Tech industry serving in a variety of executive positions. Julien Holds an Engineering degree in Management Information Systems and an MBA from HEC Paris. Julien has been recognized by Who's Who as "Professional of the Year" in Software Solutions in Recognition of Leadership, Performance and Achievement.