Sarbjeet Johal is a renowned thought leader in Cloud and Digital Transformation Programs worldwide with extensive experience in Cloud Architecture, Pre-Sales, Datacenter/Applications Rationalization and Cloud Migrations. He is a postgraduate in Business Statistics and Computer Applications, Business Statistics, Software Architecture, Programming, System Analysis & Design from Guru Nanak Dev University. He holds a Stanford LEAD Certificate in Corporate Innovation from Stanford University and a Post MS, Computer Science from BITS, India. Further, he has completed MS, Econometrics/Economics and BS, Mathematics & Economics from Guru Nanak Dev University.

With over 20 years of experience serving over 100+ customers in 10+ countries, Johal has worked with more than 30 Fortune 1000 companies in the past. He has directed Cloud Center of Excellence programs at Rackspace and Oracle, built and led Data Center & Applications Audits Organization at EMC and VMware, and led Cloud Partnerships and Alliances Work for Oracle Cloud Marketplace. He has had direct involvement in over 20 cloud implementations & migrations in the past decade.

Johal has global experience and has been actively involved in Go-to-Market areas for new products and services for several clients and employers. He possesses deep knowledge of SDLC and Datacenter/Application Operations, and he has been in product development roles for over a decade. Besides, he is very well connected in Silicon Valley Startups & VC Community, has experience in building organizations and companies from scratch, and has an IPO (CommerceOne) feather in his cap.

Currently, Johal serves as a Cloud Consultant (Architecture, Migrations, Partnerships & Alliances), Formerly Founding Investor and Principal Advisor at The Batchery, Formerly Senior Director - Cloud Architecture (Solution Specialist V - Global ISV Partners & Alliances) at Oracle, Formerly Sr. Technology Strategist & Cloud Evangelist - Enterprise Cloud & IT Transformation at Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company, Formerly Sr. Solutions Architect - Data Center & Cloud Applications Management at VMware, Formerly Sr. Solutions Architect - Data Center Management at Dell EMC, Formerly Tech Lead/Principal Software Engineer at PeopleSoft, and Formerly Sr. Software Developer & Architect (Platform & Applications) at Commerce One.