Ajay Patel

About Ajay Patel

Ajay Patel is the General Manager of the Apptio and Automation business at IBM, where he is responsible for Apptio, Turbonomic, Instana, AIOps and responsible for comprehensive set of AI-enabled financial (TBM, FinOps), automation and operations management solutions built for optimizing and managing technology investments and applications in a hybrid cloud. He joined Apptio in 2023 as Chief Operating Officer to lead corporate strategy, products, global partnerships and customer success. Prior to Apptio, he served as Senior Vice President/General Manager for VMware Modern Applications and Management business unit. In this role, Ajay was responsible for VMware’s strategy, products/services, and go-to-market for VMware’s Tanzu, vRealize and CloudHealth product portfolio focused on modern application development, cloud management and Kubernetes run-time and management. Previously, Ajay was responsible for the VMware Cloud Provider business with over 4100 Service Providers and all major hyperscaler clouds operating under VMware Cloud Provider Program. Prior to VMware, Ajay led the core middleware business, Cloud Application Foundation, at Oracle. He led GTM for Oracle Exalogic, a middleware engineered system, and Oracle WebLogic, a Java EE Application Server, which was #1 in the market during his entire tenure. Ajay has over 30 years of enterprise software expertise including SVP at Apigee (Sonoa Systems) and GM for BEA Systems, Data Services business. His prior experience includes management consulting and system integration with Price Waterhouse Coopers, EDS and AT & T. Ajay holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine. Ajay previously served as the Treasurer and board member for Cloud Foundry Foundation. He is also a board member and technical adviser to public and private software companies.

Experience

1. General Manager Apptio & Ibm IT Automation

   Apptio, An Ibm Company

   Jan 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Solution Architecture
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Big Data
• Cloud Computing
• Competitive Analysis
• Professional Services
• Architecture
• Start-Ups
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Middleware
• Paas
• Product Management
• Saas
• Business Development
• Channel
• Product Marketing
• Strategic Partnerships
• Demand Generation
• Account Management
• Managed Services
• Integration
• Crm
• Soa
• IT Strategy
• Solution Selling
• Business Alliances
• Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Mobile Devices
• Sales Enablement