Hemanth Manda

Hemanth Manda heads the product management at IBM and is responsible for Cloud Pak for Data platform. He has broad experience in the technology and software industry spanning a number of strategy and execution roles over the past 20 years. In his current role, Hemanth leads a team of over 20 product managers responsible for simplifying & modernizing IBM’s Data & AI portfolio to support cloud native architectures through a new platform offering “Cloud Pak for Data”. Among other things, he is responsible for rationalizing and streamlining Data and AI portfolio at IBM, a $6 B business and delivering new platform wide capabilities through “Cloud Pak for Data”.

In his previous role, he served as a chief of staff to General Manager of IBM Data and AI. Prior to that, Hemanth lead the Business Development team responsible for acquisitions, divestitures and strategic partnerships at IBM's Analytics and middleware business units. There he worked on developing division’s buy side M&A strategy, sourcing deal flow, influencing valuation and terms, executing due diligence, developing integration plans, and negotiating transactions.

Hemanth likes to play basketball on weekends and lives in Dallas with his wife and 2 kids.