Prashanth Ponnachath

Prashanth Ponnachath currently serves as the Global Vice President of Sales Engineering at Cloudera, a hybrid data platform launched in March 2024. Prior to this role, Prashanth held the position of Global Vice President of Sales Engineering and Professional Services at Dremio, where the focus was on the SQL Lakehouse platform from March 2020 to February 2024. Previous experience includes significant leadership roles at SingleStore, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Visa, VirtuOz, Sabrix, Cast Iron Systems, Sybase Inc, and Vignette, with a strong emphasis on sales engineering and customer success throughout his career. Prashanth Ponnachath holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Arlington, an MBA in Marketing from California State University - East Bay, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University.