Prashant Ketkar

Prashant Ketkar serves as Chief Technology & Product Officer, leading the company's product and engineering operations that drive the continuous evolution and transformation of Corel's product portfolio.

With more than two decades of experience building and managing software products and cloud services, Prashant most recently served as Senior Vice President (SVP) of Product & Engineering at Resolve Systems and previously as Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Madrona Venture Labs where he incubated ideas in the robotic process automation space. Prior to this, he held the role of SVP of Product at Evident.io until the company’s acquisition by Palo Alto Networks in 2018. Prashant served as VP of Development at Oracle, setting up the company’s Seattle R&D operations and heading its public cloud infrastructure efforts, and was an early product lead for Azure at Microsoft where he was responsible for core infrastructure services leading to Azure’s launch in 2009. Prashant has also held product roles at Sun Microsystems and Tata Elxsi.

Prashant has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management. When not working, he can be found tinkering in his fledgling workshop or enjoying the outdoors biking and hiking. Prashant lives in the Seattle area with his wife, teenage twin daughters and father.