Mr. Pratik Gupta is the Chief Technical Officer for IBM Hybrid Cloud Management and an IBM Distinguished Engineer. He has nearly 30 years’ experience in the field of Computer Software engineering and specifically product design and development in the areas of Cloud Computing, Virtualization Management, Security and TCP/IP networking. He is currently the Chief Architect of AI Powered Automation foundation at IBM.

Pratik has broad technical and business leadership experience in developing new products that help enterprises transform their IT with Cloud and SaaS. He has managed large, geographically distributed teams and has strong relationships with enterprise CxOs and industry analysts. Pratik has multiple patents in the areas of Computer Security, Cloud Computing and Systems Management.

Pratik has an MBA from Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University, and B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.