Ravi Rajamani is Vice President, Engineering, Applied AI, leading a team of highly specialized AI technical experts, including FDEs, to work shoulder to shoulder with customers and move them beyond experimentation into full-scale AI operations.

Ravi has more than 25 years of experience in engineering and GTM leadership roles. Most recently, he served as Managing Director, Global Head of Generative AI Blackbelts at Google and was responsible for helping customers facilitate business transformation on Google Cloud with our AI offerings. Prior to Google, Ravi was Senior Director of the Global Cloud Solutions Practice at Cisco, where he created and grew the Cloud business for major enterprise and service provider customers. As a senior executive at Cisco, he led a team of architects and consultants to help customers automate technology and business processes across the entire IT life cycle.

Ravi earned his MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and a Masters in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

In his spare time, Ravi maintains an active lifestyle as an avid hiker, with one of his proudest personal accomplishments being a trek to Everest base camp. When not hiking, he enjoys catching matches of tennis and cricket or coaching recreational softball—but his favorite pastime is spending time with his wife, two daughters, and their family dog, Cosmo.