Ravi Simhambhatla | Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, Customer Experience and Transportation
Google

Ravi works with strategic customers to create and execute on their travel and transportation transformation visions, and helps them achieve their goals and business outcomes. He has worked in the technology industry for 30 years, including 15 years in commercial aviation. In his role at Google Cloud, Ravi helps guide customer strategies by utilizing his industry experience to identify challenges and opportunities as part of their digital transformations. Ravi also partners with other Google product areas to deliver differentiated and new experiences/products to help our customers win in the marketplace.

Prior to Google Cloud, Ravi served as chief technology officer for United Airlines, where he focused on modernizing customer and employee experience technologies, transforming core systems, and ensuring strong enterprise architecture across all platforms. Before that, he served as chief technology officer for Aer Lingus, VP of information technology at Tesla Motors, and VP and CIO for Virgin America. Ravi has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Richmond College (U.K.).