Naveen Zutshi

Naveen Zutshi is the CIO at Databricks. Naveen has previously served as a member of the board of advisors at Zoom and Rubrik, Inc. During their time at Palo Alto Networks, they were responsible for the strategy and execution of the company's global information technology. Naveen helped the company scale rapidly and expand in new security categories. Naveen also built a strong, innovative technology team and established a common data lake on GCP.

Naveen Zutshi has a BE in Computer Engineering from Bangalore University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Arkansas. Naveen also has certification from Coursera in Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals, The Data Scientist’s Toolbox, An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python, and An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1) & (Part 2). In addition, they are certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional.

Naveen Zutshi reports to Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder & CEO. They work with Fermín Serna - Chief Security Officer, Reynold Xin - Co‑Founder & Chief Architect, and David Cook - Chief Information Security Officer.