Rahul Tripathi is a transformational growth leader with over 25 years of IT industry experience creating innovative products to achieve #1 market share, scaling businesses from 0 to $1B+ and building high impact organizations from 0 to 1000+. He has led product, engineering, services and sales functions at leading companies and brings together these skills in CPO/GM roles to drive exceptional results across technology domains and industry verticals. Rahul is currently Chief Product & Technology Officer at Skytap, a growth startup providing Cloud services for specialized enterprise workloads in public clouds. He led product strategy and transformation initiatives for exceptional business success and acquisition by Kyndryl (NYSE:KD).Previously, as CTO of Customer Experience and VP/GM of Xpert Services & Solutions at Nutanix, he managed cross-functional P&L and drove business growth. Before that as VP of Product at HP Enterprise Software division, Rahul led product management and engineering teams to transform a billion $ IT Operations Management (ITOM) Software & SaaS portfolio. In his prior roles over a decade at Cisco, he brought to market industry’s first cloud router, first virtualization enabled branch server and led product teams for Hybrid cloud, Data Center, Security, and SDN solutions. Rahul has a Bachelors in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS-Pilani, India and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is a well-recognized thought leader and speaker at industry forums and holds multiple patents and certifications. He is passionate about wellness in workplace and volunteers as a breath meditation instructor with Art of Living Foundation.