Prashant Ketkar

Prashant Ketkar is Chief Technology Officer, Parallels. He leads Parallels’ product and engineering operations that drive the continuous evolution and transformation of the product portfolio. He previously served as Senior Vice President (SVP) of Product & Engineering at Resolve Systems and as Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Madrona Venture Labs where he incubated ideas in the robotic process automation space. He also served as SVP of Product at Evident.io until the company's acquisition by Palo Alto Networks in 2018. Prashant served as VP of Development at Oracle, setting up the company's Seattle R&D operations and heading its public cloud infrastructure efforts, and was an early product lead for Azure at Microsoft where he was responsible for core infrastructure services leading to Azure's launch in 2009. Prashant has a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management.