Otto Berkes

Otto joined HireRoad as CEO in 2019 after serving as one of the company’s independent directors. Previously, Otto was EVP and CTO at CA Technologies, where he was responsible for Operation Tensor, a three-year, company-wide business transformation initiative aimed at shifting the majority of the company’s revenues to a subscription-based model. Before CA Technologies, Otto was the EVP and CTO for HBO, where he spearheaded the company’s digital transformation and was responsible for the development of the HBO GO platform. Otto won an Emmy for his work at HBO. Before joining HBO, Otto had an 18-year career at Microsoft, where, in addition to cofounding Xbox, he drove groundbreaking hardware and software innovation in computer graphics, home entertainment, mobile devices, and cloud services. Otto received a BA in physics with a minor in music performance from Middlebury College and an MS in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Vermont, where he is currently a trustee.