Security and Blockchain Innovations Program Director, IBM
Jai has a vital mix of business and technology skills with over 17 years of global experience leading several multi-million dollars businesses. Jai's last role at Diablo Technologies was Vice President of Global Offering Management and Alliance/Business Development. Prior to this role, he was with Unisys as a Senior Director of Strategy and Product Management for Mission Critical Security Solutions and Consulting, System Integration and Managed Security Services for Stealth and Forward! brands. Before Unisys, he was with IBM for 12 years and started as senior software and systems engineer for IBM Firewall product development. He then had several engineering, product management and marketing leadership roles in WebSphere and Tivoli. His last role at IBM was Product Management and Strategy Leader for Identity and Access Management Portfolio in Security Systems Division. Jai started his career as a Computer Scientist focusing on security, networking and speech recognition related research projects at the School of Technology & Computer Science in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. Jai holds several patents related to security. He is an alumnus of 2006 IBM Leadership Development Program (LDP) and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) from ISACA.