Dr Rohini Srivathsa is the National Technology Officer at Microsoft India. In her role, she is responsible for driving innovation and growth through ‘tech-intensity’ – across customers and partners, in industry and the government.
Rohini began her career in R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and has 25+ technical and business publications in ACM/IEEE and other journals. She engaged with CxOs across emerging markets during her strategy consulting career at the Boston Consulting Group and IBM Global Business Services. As CTO of Janalakshmi Financial Services (now Jana Small Finance Bank), Rohini was responsible for driving the tech-driven business transformation towards financial inclusion among the urban underserved.
Rohini is a thought-leader and a business and technology advisor to multiple entities: Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector Center of Expertise, Wiley Innovation Advisory Council, ECE department at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT Technology Review Insights, NM-ICPS – Dept of Science and Technology of the Government of India, Technology Innovation Hub on Quantum Technologies at IISER-Pune, and SRITNE at the Indian School of Business.
She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
