There’s exciting news at Okera today. We’re expanding our executive team with the appointment of Ravi Ramachandran to Vice President of Sales. In his new position, he will be responsible for all revenue functions at Okera.

Ravi is a big data and analytics industry leader having led worldwide enterprise sales organizations for some of the industry’s best technology innovators, product category leaders and services companies. His experience extends across big data, data governance, machine learning, and other advanced data and analytics technologies.

Most recently, Ravi served as Vice President of Global Sales at Waterline Data where he helped establish the Machine Learning Data Catalog category. He has previously held leadership positions at CSC, AppLabs, Xchanging, Pegasystems, Scient (Microsoft), and Lewtan (Moody’s Analytics).

“Okera uniquely solves a problem every enterprise struggles with, regardless of size, industry or resources, by delivering access to data on-demand while maintaining proper data security and governance,” said Ravi. “I’m excited to be a part of the Okera team and look forward to collaborating with our customers to ensure we expand our capabilities to support their evolving needs.”

“Ravi brings a wealth of experience in the big data and governance ecosystem,” said Amandeep Khurana, Okera CEO and co-founder. “His leadership style and customer-first mentality will be an excellent fit with Okera’s sales organization and we’re excited to welcome him to the team.”