Prakash Darji

Prakash Darji is the VP & General Manager of Digital Technology Services Group at Pure Storage. Prakash has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry, with a focus on product management and solution architecture.

Prakash started their career as a Business Analyst at Nalco, where they worked for three years before moving into product management. In 2008, they joined Business Objects as Senior Director of Product Management for Business Objects Planning & Consolidations. Prakash was with Business Objects for two years before joining SAP in 2010 as SVP & General Manager, Platform as a Service.

At SAP, Prakash led the team that defined market strategy, GTM model, engineering focus, and built a new cloud business with triple digit growth. Prakash also setup the business for continued triple digit growth through 2020 with the product portfolio including HANA Cloud Platform, Integration as a Service, as well as HANA Database as a Service offerings. Prakash left SAP in 2017 to join Pure Storage.

Prakash Darji attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where they earned a Bachelors of Science in Computer Software.

Some of their coworkers include Matt Burr - VP & General Manager, FlashBlade, Shawn Hansen - VP & General Manager, FlashArray, and Bill Cerreta - VP & General Manager, Platform. Their manager is Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer.