Girish Kulkarni

Girish Kulkarni has extensive experience in product marketing and management. Girish is currently the Head of Product Marketing at Sama. Prior to this, they worked at AMD as the Director of Data Center & Cloud Solutions Marketing, where they established and led the Product Marketing team responsible for AMD's re-entry into the X-86 CPU Market with the launch of AMD EPYC Processors. Before that, Girish held roles at Cisco as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager, where they led a team responsible for messaging development and outbound marketing strategy for Cisco's Unified Computing System and UCS Solutions. Girish also worked as a Product Marketing Manager for Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 4500E. Earlier in their career, they held various marketing roles at HP, including Worldwide Marketing Program Manager and Worldwide Current Product Marketing Manager. Girish also worked at Compaq Computer Corporation as a Worldwide Product Marketing Manager, and at Siemens Pyramid Technology and Fujitsu in product management and marketing positions, respectively.

Girish Kulkarni obtained a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Lvov Polytechnical Institute, USSR, from 1985 to 1991. Additionally, they pursued an MBA in Business Administration at Golden Gate University in 2005.