Ritesh Patel

Ritesh Patel is the Co-Founder and VP of Products at Nirmata. Ritesh has over 8 years of experience in strategic business development and technology partnerships. Ritesh has a proven track record in building successful partner relationships and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions.

Prior to Nirmata, Ritesh was a consultant at Nirmata Container Solutions, where they delivered container-based solutions to enterprises. Ritesh also served as an advisor at HopMotion Animation Pvt. Ltd.

From 2010 to 2013, Ritesh worked at Brocade in the Strategic Business Development department, where they were responsible for developing technology partnerships and solution development for cloud orchestration platforms such as OpenStack and CloudStack. Ritesh also managed partner relationships and helped build the partner ecosystem. During their time at Brocade, Ritesh launched a partnership with Red Hat, Rackspace and Piston Cloud to deliver OpenStack private cloud solutions based on Brocade infrastructure.

Ritesh Patel has a MBA in Finance & Strategy from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, an SSC from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, an MS in Computer Engineering from Michigan State University, a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, and an SSC in Math from Utpal Shanghvi School.

Ritesh Patel reports to Jim Bugwadia, Co-Founder & CEO. Ritesh Patel works with Terry Svedbeck - Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Anubhav Sharma - VP, Business Development, and Nataraj Narayan - Managing Director, India.