Technology executive with extensive expertise in building and operating enterprise grade Cloud, Analytics and AI solutions for many industries ranging from Retail and Healthcare to Financial Services. In the current role as a VP and CTO in IBM Cloud Krishna is responsible for creating cloud services that accelerate adoption in the financial industry. Over the last 20+ years, Krishna has led data science teams in building big data analytics applications in a multi-cloud setting while tackling complex privacy and security challenges. These solutions were used to make operational decisions about financial products in insurance and banking, human resource development, IT project management and solving computationally hard operations research problems in manufacturing and retail.