Anant Jhingran

Considered to be the world technology leader in the field of information management with highly demonstrated impact on industrial practice and future technology and business directions, Jhingran's achievements were well recognized by his peers, as well as by senior management at IBM. Originally from India, he received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 1985, where he was the recipient of the President of India's Gold Medal. He subsequently received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.

After earning his Ph.D., Jhingran had a meteoric career at IBM Corporation with numerous recognitions in research and technology leadership. He received the designation of IBM Fellow—IBM's highest technical honor; recipients are selected for sustained and distinguished technical achievements in engineering, programming and technology. He was recognized for establishing IBM's data warehousing technology and business and other critical businesses such as search, e-commerce and Big Data.

He served as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for IBM's Information Management Division, which was a large part of IBM's $22B/yr. Software Group. He was also the Co-Chair of the IBM-wide Cloud Computing Architecture Board. Jhingran was responsible for the technical strategy of products and solutions in databases, content management, business intelligence and information integration. Prior to that, he led the IBM team designing and building solutions to meet the requirements of business analytics on structured and unstructured data.

He also served as Director of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center and, before that, Senior Manager for e-Commerce and data management at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. In recognition of his contributions, Jhingran was frequently called upon to present at IBM and industry/academic conferences. He keynoted at several academic conferences, such as the Conference on Very Large Data Bases and the World Wide Web Conference, as well as at leading industry conferences such as the Hadoop Summit. He participated in over ten conferences on cloud and information management in 2011 alone.

He also received the IBM Distinguished Engineer award and the IBM Academy of Technology award, plus several Outstanding Achievement and Innovation Awards and the IBM Corporate Award. In addition, IIT Delhi recognized him for the outstanding contributions he made as a Corporate Leader and Researcher, stating: "Through his achievements, he has brought glory to the name of the Institute." They presented Jhingran with the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumnus Award and the President's Gold Medal at IIT Delhi.

His research and innovation results were reflected in over 25 academic papers and over a dozen patents, ranging across all areas of information management and e-commerce. He established a well-respected blog, http://jhingran.typepad.com, where his views on Information Management, Cloud and other important IT topics attracted an excellent following. After 21 years at IBM, he left to join Apigee in San Jose, California, where he served as Vice President of Data & Analytics, helping to drive that business.