Jitesh Ghai, EVP and Chief Product Officer, Informatica
Jitesh S. Ghai is Informatica’s EVP and Chief Product Officer, where he leads product management, user experience/design, engineering, and cloud operations with a customer-centric approach to product innovation. Under his leadership, the products organization has established Informatica as a market leader in ALL five key categories of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant in enterprise cloud data management. Jitesh has been the driving force for Informatica’s continuous innovation and transformation as a top cloud data leader garnering industry recognition which include being named Microsoft and Snowflake’s Partner of the Year in 2020 and Computing Magazine’s “Cloud Data Management Solution of the Year in 2020.” He is responsible for the vision, strategy and execution around Informatica’s Intelligent Cloud Services platform powered by CLAIRE, the company’s AI engine and named a leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for iPaaS. Previously, Jitesh led Informatica’s Data Governance & Privacy organization which has become an industry gold standard for data governance, quality and privacy. Under Jitesh’s leadership, Informatica has evolved into one of the top cloud data companies and THE trusted partner for 85 of the Fortune 100 companies.
Jitesh began his career at Informatica as vice president of product management, defining the overall vision and strategy for operational data integration, big data and IoT use cases. Prior to Informatica, Jitesh served in a variety of leadership roles in engineering, sales, and product management at Cisco, Solace, and 29West.
Jitesh holds a Bachelor of Applied Science, First Class Honours, in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has been recognized as one of the “Top Seven Big Innovation Executives in 2021” by the Business Intelligence Group for people that are bringing new ideas to life in innovative ways.
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