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Krishnan Parasuraman is the Vice President and head of the Global Field CTO organization at Snowflake. He is part of Snowflake’s sales leadership team and is responsible for their customer advisory, industry solutions and partner engineering functions.
Krishnan also acts as an executive sponsor for many of Snowflake’s strategic clients on their digital transformation and cloud modernization initiatives.
He speaks regularly at industry events, writes for trade publications and is the author of the book, Harness the Power of Big Data. Prior to joining Snowflake, Krishnan has been in leadership roles in Sales and Business development roles at Splice Machine, IBM, Netezza and Infosys.

Natalie Mead has focused on building technical go to market data strategies at a global level for over 25 years. She helps companies extend their
technical focus from features and details into large scale business
solutions to drive material organization changes.

Currently, Natalie is the Vice President of the APJ Sales Engineering team at Snowflake where her team builds architectures around the Snowflake Data Cloud. Her focus ranges from Data Science, Data Engineering, Applications to Data Collaboration and Snowflake Marketplace Solutions.

Previously, Natalie was the Senior Director of the Global Field CTO Office at Snowflake, where she oversaw the programming and vision of Principal
Architects in security and workload platforms within the Sales Engineering organization. She and her team focused on driving early vision and adoptions of the Snowflake Products and Engineering roadmap to the field and end users for a complete, actionable view of the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Vijayant is the Managing Director for Snowflake’s India Business. In this role he is responsible for driving the business growth and Go-To-Market strategy for Snowflake in the country. He leads the charter of partnering with customers in India across Industry Sectors in their Data & AI led business transformation journey. Vijayant is passionate about helping businesses unlock potential and unleash innovation by digitally transforming with the right technology strategy to create new ways of working, new business models and new revenue streams.

A leader with over 27 years of experience with Global Technology companies he has a strong background in building & running high performance businesses with a track record of delivering Customer Success & Innovation. Prior to Snowflake, Vijayant was with Microsoft where he was the Executive Director leading the BFSI business for the country. He has also held Senior Leadership roles including Regional VP at Salesforce, Regional Director at SAP & Country Head for CA Technologies Data Management Business.

With 20+ years of experience in the field of Information technology, Geetha had the opportunity to grow with the era of data explosion, while handling various techniques and solutions around data. Currently at Merkle, Geetha is building IPs (Intellectual Property) around data products, that enable clients to take data-driven, business decisions. These IPs include enterprise data platforms with powerful analytical solutions, machine learning algorithms, and AI.
Geetha also holds the responsibility of running the cloud and data engineering horizontal. As part of that role, she has created a strong community of 350+ Snowflake engineers and architects who is serving Merkle’s clients globally.
Her team consists of data scientists, cloud engineers, data engineers, and Java developers, builds solutions that transform client’s customer experience. She has spent most of her career building data products, point solutions, and strategic business consulting. She has been part of the end-to-end data evolution. Right from building solutions, automating operations, building data warehousing solutions for decision support systems (DSS), building big data ecosystems for business intelligence, promoting them on elastic scale-out cloud platforms for data analytics, AI, and machine learning. A well architected data solution provides a strong foundation for any decisioning system. The same is applicable to AI / ML.
In her 20+ year long journey, she has gained rich experience building capital market solutions. She has spent the last 10 years, working on IoT, big data, cloud, and AI / ML. Built various solutions that involves IP development for Merkle, driving development of various business portfolios in AI/ML.

Tejas Gowda is a seasoned fintech leader with over two decades of experience in product management, driving large-scale innovations in the payments and technology sectors. Currently, he is the Senior Director of Product Management at Razorpay, where he focuses on creating cutting-edge payment solutions that enhance user experience and business growth. Tejas has a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, developing impactful products, and driving revenue growth for leading global organizations like Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Nokia Siemens Networks