Ramesh Gopinath

Ramesh Gopinath has been with IBM since March 1994, currently serving as the VP of Strategic AI Partnerships - Technical Execution at IBM Research. Throughout a diverse career at IBM, Ramesh has held several key leadership positions including Vice President of Organic Growth Ventures, Vice President of Blockchain Solutions, and Vice President of IBM Research in India. Ramesh directed initiatives in Cloud Services and was pivotal in the development of collaboration technologies, particularly the LotusLive cloud offering. Prior to IBM, Ramesh worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Rice University and interned at Aware, Inc. Ramesh holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and a BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.