Chirantan Desai

Chirantan "CJ" Desai currently serves as President of Product & Engineering at Cloudflare since October 2024 and as a Guest Lecturer at Stanford University since March 2022. Desai's extensive experience includes leadership roles at ServiceNow, where responsibilities encompassed products, engineering, AI research, and customer success from December 2016 to July 2024, and at EMC, overseeing the Emerging Technologies Division. Other notable positions include Executive Vice President at Symantec, where management of a 4,000+ team contributed to $3 billion in annual bookings, and Vice President roles at Pivotal Corporation and Oracle Corporation. Desai holds both a Master's degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has served on the Board of Directors for Zebra Technologies.