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Role and Company
Vice-President, Software Defined Environments, IBM
Expertise
26 years experience in information technology
Location
Yorktown Heights , NY
About Radha
Radha Ratnaparkhi is the Vice President for Software Defined Environments where she leads a world wide research team in the area of Cloud Computing. Her earlier roles include, being Vice President of IT and Wireless Convergence at IBM Research, Director of Commercial Systems, leadership of a high-end text analytics solution called WebFountain. Radha’s experience at IBM also includes her development leadership effort for IBM’s flagship database product DB2 on the mainframe. Prior to IBM, Radha was leading the Java products development team at Informix Software. She started her career in Mumbai, India with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – India’s premier services consulting firm, after completing her Masters of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi.
Radha has a passion for mentoring and coaching fellow IBMers, others in the IT community and students embarking on their first career.