Dr. Anant Jhingran is an IBM Fellow and Vice President and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for IBM’s Information Management division. He is deeply involved in IBM’s middleware in the cloud (including co-chairing IBM’s Cloud Computing Architecture Board) and with the technical strategy of products and solutions for databases, content management, business intelligence, and information integration. Before assuming his present role, Anant led the IBM team responsible for designing and building solutions to meet the requirements of business analytics on structured and unstructured data. He has also served as Director of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center and as Senior Manager for E-Commerce and Data Management at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center. Anant received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. He holds several patents and awards for DB2 and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
