Yashpal Matharu

About Yashpal Matharu

Executive IT leader · Trusted Adviser · Customer Success Manager · Cloud Strategy & Evangelist · Digital transformation · IT Infrastructure & Applications · Mergers & Acquisitions · Entrepreneur · Business Development · PresalesIT executive with 25+ years of experience who is laser focused on customer satisfaction and success• “Trusted Adviser” with proven experience in guiding C-level and IT executives in finding efficient ways to accelerate Cloud journey and leveraging new technologies to make organizations highly innovative and competitive in a cost efficient manner• Talented at developing, leading and hiring virtual global teams for delivering complex Cloud initiatives • Designing and developing foundational services across the IT stack (infrastructure and applications)• Taking ownership (both success and failure) of IT portfolio and program management and delivering results on-time and budget• Continuously raising the bar for defining and documenting IT strategies with focus on digital transformation and cloud adoption, IT road-maps, process improvement, vendor management, and professional development of reportees and consultants• Willingness to challenge the status quo, work on building consensus, credibility, and trust while never losing focus on the big picture• Lead organizational change during Merger and acquisitions, re-structuring by clearly communicating short term and long term goals and objectives, fostering trust and expectation management • Founded two “Cloud First” services companies that helped its clients to build strategy and guide them through implementation of the strategy for Cloud Adoption and application migration; provide managed services to manage the Cloud; Cloud optimization; and design and implement governance and security models for the Cloud

Experience

1. Principal Account Technical Leader

   IBM

   Jan 2026 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Account Technical Leader for Palo Alto Networks.

Education

• Bharati Vidyapeeth

  BS - Electronics and Telecommunications

  1983 — 1984

• Loyola High School

  High School

  1971 — 1983

• Monmouth University

  Master of Science, Computer Science

  1989 — 1991

• Maharashtra Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science, Electronics and Telecommunications

  1983 — 1987

• Symboisis Institute

  Post Graduate Diploma, Computer Programming and Decision Techniques

  1983 — 1984

Skills

• Data Warehousing
• Professional Services
• Soa
• Data Center
• Project Management
• Outsourcing
• Management
• Team Building
• Consulting
• Project Planning
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Software Project Management
• System Deployment
• Crm
• Itil
• Agile Project Management
• Networking
• Information Technology
• Sdlc
• Business Process
• Solution Architecture
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Infrastructure
• Web Development
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Erp (Oracle, Peoplesoft, Epicor, Macola)
• Leadership
• Information Security
• Governance
• Business Intelligence
• Architectures
• Software Development
• IT Strategy
• Strategy
• Vendor Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Virtualization