Radha Ratnaparkhi is the Vice President for IT and Wireless Convergence at IBM Research. Radha leads a global research team in the US, China and India towards creating new IBM offerings under the strategic initiative of IT and Wireless Convergence. Just prior to her current position, Radha was the Director of Commercial Systems where she lead the research initiative in the area of Cloud Computing. Previously, Radha led and managed the commercialization efforts of a high-end text analytics solution – WebFountain, at IBM’s Almaden Research Center. Radha’s experience at IBM also includes her development leadership effort for IBM’s flagship database product DB2 on the mainframe. Prior to IBM, Radha was leading the Java products development team at Informix Software (Informix was acquired by IBM in April 2001). She started her career in Mumbai, India with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – India’s premier services consulting firm, after completing her Masters of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.