Shriram Revankar

Chief Technology Officer

Dolby Technologies

Meerah Rajavel

Chief Information Officer

Palo Alto Networks

As Chief Information Officer, Meerah is responsible for Palo Alto Networks’ global information technology functions, driving a comprehensive strategy to scale and rapidly deliver innovative solutions for our worldwide teams.

Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2022, Meerah was CIO at Citrix and held past leadership roles at McAfee, Forcepoint, Cisco and Infosys. Meerah deeply understands the IT challenges across the industry, among organizations of all sizes.

Meerah holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science & Engineering from the Thiagarajar College of Engineering at Anna University in Chennai, India. She also holds a Master’s of Business Administration from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.

 

Fidelma Russo

Chief Technology Officer & EVP, Hybrid Cloud

HPE

Fidelma Russo is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Hybrid Cloud business unit, and the company's Chief Technology Officer. Fidelma's Hybrid Cloud team is tasked with solving some of IT's biggest challenges, including transforming business through the power of data, modernizing IT infrastructure with a true cloud experience, and dramatically simplifying operations across hybrid cloud IT estates - all as they help customers accelerate their adoption of AI.

As the leader of this global organization of over 5,500 employees, Fidelma is responsible for driving the strategic direction, development, and execution of HPE's GreenLake platform, storage, private cloud, and SaaS solutions, along with creating an innovation pipeline through the capabilities and services of the Office of the CTO. 

Fidelma joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise in September 2021 as Chief Technology Officer, where she led the creation, development, and delivery of HPE's GreenLake platform, a central offering for all of HPE's edge-to-cloud solutions and cloud services.

Based in Houston, Texas, Fidelma has more than 30 years of technology leadership spanning machine learning and analytics, global IT business services, cloud services, servers, storage, networking, backup, and infrastructure.

Prior to joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Fidelma was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Services business unit at VMware. She has held notable senior leadership positions including Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Iron Mountain, Senior Vice President and General Manager at EMC, Vice President of Adaptive Infrastructure at Hewlett-Packard, and Senior Vice President of Network, Storage, and Software at Sun Microsystems.

Fidelma was appointed to Equinix's Board of Directors and audit committee in June 2022, and she also sits on the HP International Bank's Board of Directors. In July 2023, Fidelma was recognized in CRN's Top 100 Executive awards and Top 25 IT Innovators of 2023.

Fidelma holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from University College Cork, a master's in computer science from Boston University, and completed the Internet of Things Executive Education program at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Nils Jaeger

President, Volvo Autonomous Solutions

Volvo

Nils Jaeger is President of Volvo Autonomous Solutions and a Member of the Group Management of Volvo Group, reporting directly to CEO Martin Lundstedt. Previously, Nils was President of Volvo Financial Services EMEA and, prior thereto, several management positions within Deere & Company.

Alex Singla

Senior Partner

QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey

Alex is a senior partner with the firm’s Chicago office and coleads QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, globally. He helps companies transform by deploying digital and data and analytics solutions and ensuring these solutions go from pilot to full-scale adoption and scaling.

He passionately embeds change management and capability building as core elements to every transformation to ensure sustainable and step-change improvements in growth, effectiveness, cost, and customer experience.

In his nearly 25 years with McKinsey, Alex has advised clients on several topics, including strategy, digital and analytics, enterprise transformation, service operations, distribution, end-to-end customer journeys, technology, risk assessment, warranty and claims, marketing, and cost.

Examples of Alex’s recent client work include the following:

• leading an effort to reimagine the homeowner insurance market, using analytics and digital to improve the customer experience, cycle time, and growth, and fully deploying all solutions to nearly 2,000 outbound customer-care agents
• leading an analytics and operations transformation to improve product quality, warranty costs, customer experience, and market share for a Fortune-200 heavy industrial company, and deploying the solutions to approximately 500 customer-facing sales and service representatives who utilize the analytic insights daily
• working with a leading life insurer on a holistic enterprise transformation that included developing a multiyear strategy, reimagining and digitizing the core customer end-to-end journeys through analytics, and instituting a growth-and-operations frontline transformation to double earnings within five years
• leading a frontline sales and analytics transformation from pilot to a national launch with frontline capability building and performance management of more than 2000 field and inside-sales agents, resulting in increased sales and margins

Outside of work, Alex enjoys spending time with his wife and three children. He is a member of the board of trustees of Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and a member of the Council of Governors of the American India Foundation. Also, he is a guest mentor for innovative technology startups who are accepted into the Creative Destruction Lab program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/alex-singla

Sastry Durvasula

Chief Operating, Information & Digital Officer

TIAA

Sastry Durvasula is the Chief Operating, Information and Digital Officer at TIAA, responsible for powering the enterprise’s business growth, scaling innovation and client impact, driving operational excellence, and accelerating TIAA’s transformation. In his role, Sastry drives operating strategies and enterprise-wide capabilities in alignment with the company’s strategic goals through four connected pillars he oversees globally: Technology, Digital & Client Experience, Operations and Shared Services. He is a member of the company’s Executive Committee.

Sastry’s responsibilities also include Business Operational Effectiveness, Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, Client Tech Labs and Strategic Partnerships across Retirement Services, Nuveen Asset Management and Wealth Management, and serving on the board of TIAA Global Capabilities in India. Previously he served as TIAA’s Chief Information and Client Services Officer, a role he held upon joining the firm in February 2022.

Sastry’s recent accomplishments include – leapfrogging TIAA’s technology, digital and data ecosystem to a modern cloud-based stack, launching the company’s GenAI platform TIAA gAItSM, forging strategic partnerships to transform recordkeeping and FinTech investments and incubation through TIAA Ventures. Sastry and team also built and rolled out an award-winning, global Guild Network and Guild Gigs to upskill/reskill colleagues and foster a learning culture, that includes an AI Guild with several thousand active members.

Previously, Sastry served as the Global Chief Technology and Digital Officer, and Partner, at McKinsey & Company. In that role, he led the strategy and development of the firm’s differentiating digital products and platforms, internal and client-facing technology, data & analytics, AI/ML, cyber and hybrid cloud ecosystem, and served as a senior advisor on client engagements.

He also held Chief Digital Officer, Chief Data & Analytics, CIO and global technology leadership roles at insurance broker and risk management company Marsh and at American Express, where he spent 15 years. He was also a consultant for several Fortune Global 500 companies.

Sastry brings a breadth of global experience in the technology, financial services, payments and insurance domains, and a proven track record in leading and transforming large organizations, shaping innovative digital strategies and experiences, driving complex risk, regulatory and cyber security capabilities, and managing global P&Ls. He successfully led the development of strategic B2C, B2B and B2B2C products and platforms, FinTech and InsurTech partnerships, digital labs, M&A and new ventures.

Sastry is a passionate advocate for diversity and sustainability. He is the executive co-sponsor of Achieve, TIAA’s Business Resource Group advancing women, executive ambassador of TIAA’s Sustainability Action Team, served on the board of Girls in Tech, and has championed industry-wide initiatives focused on women in tech, including ReWRITE and Half the Board.

Sastry holds a master’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, is credited with 40+ patents and plays a leadership role in technology industry/academia consortia. He is a lifelong learner, a recognized speaker and influencer, and recipient of several honors and industry awards, including Future Enterprise North America Awards CIO of Year, by the International Data Corporation (IDC) and an Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Awards honoree, by the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC).

 

Xuedong XD Huang

Chief Technology Officer

Zoom

Xuedong (X.D.) Huang is the chief technology officer at Zoom, where he leads the AI strategy and services for the company. Xuedong is a renowned technology leader who has been instrumental in bringing speech recognition and AI to the mass market. He has led groundbreaking milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision.

 

Prior to joining Zoom in 2023, he worked at Microsoft, where he served as Azure AI CTO and technical fellow. He began Microsoft’s speech technology group in 1993 and led Microsoft’s AI teams to achieve several of the industry’s first human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision. He is an inventor with over 170 U.S. patents and has authored over 100 papers and two books. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow, an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the IEEE Bose Industrial Leader Award in 2023.

 

Xuedong received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 (sponsored by the British ORS and Edinburgh University Scholarship), his M.S. from Tsinghua University in 1984, and his B.S. from Hunan University in 1982.