Venkat Ramakrishan is the President and COO of NeuBird AI. In this role, Venkat runs all of NeuBirdʼs Go-to-market and Field Operations along with Operational oversight and management of other company functions and is intently focused on scaling NeuBirdʼs Enterprise and Commercial business and delivering outstanding customer experience. Venkat Ramakrishnan previously served as the General Manager of the Portworx Cloud Native Business Unit at Pure Storage. Since joining Portworx in 2016, he has played a pivotal role in pioneering a new category of data management, protection, and services tailored for Kubernetes and containers. As a business leader, Venkat boasts a proven track record of consistently delivering innovative products for both cloud and enterprise. His extensive experience encompasses all facets of products and business operations, and he places a strong emphasis on investing in people and relationships. Thriving in highly collaborative environments, Venkat firmly believes in the collective power of great teams accomplishing greater things. Venkat has successfully built, led, and coached teams in engineering, product development, marketing, sales, customer success, and technical support at Portworx and Pure. These teams have been instrumental in developing industry-leading products and assisting customers in addressing their most critical challenges related to container adoption. Prior to his role at Portworx, Venkat gained extensive experience in public and private cloud offerings, cloud storage, and software-defined application orchestration and management through positions at Cisco, IBM, Fusion-IO, AMD, and Western Digital.