Rakesh Gopakumar

Rakesh Gopakumar is an accomplished Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology at Interstate Waste Services, Inc., where responsibilities include building an IT team, driving digital transformation, and modernizing IT infrastructure. Prior experience includes serving as Global IT Director at Air Liquide, where Rakesh executed the IT strategy and led digital transformation efforts, and as IT Director - Applications at Schneider Electric, managing a diverse business applications portfolio. Earlier roles included Group Account Manager at IGATE Technologies and Manager IT at Infosys, focusing on strategic client relationships and supply chain transformation, respectively. Rakesh holds an MBA from Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, and a B.Tech. in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra.