Vice-President, Strategic Initiatives, WebEx Communications, Inc.

As vice-president of strategic initiatives, Shankar is responsible for the creation of collaborative applications on the Webex Connect platform and the WebEx Connect partner ecosystem. Prior to Webex, Shankar was the EVP, strategy, marketing, products at GemStone Systems, a leading enterprise software company in the distributed data management space. Before GemStone, Shankar founded and managed technology and strategy consulting firm, Orcheid. From 1998 to 2002, Shankar was vice-president of products and strategy at Tibco Software, where he helped lead the company from a one-product, $15 million company to a 40+ product, $330 million company. Prior to Tibco, Shankar held senior marketing, engineering management and architecture positions at Adobe Systems. Shankar holds an MBA with Honors from Santa Clara University, an M.S. in Engineering from Ohio State University and a B.Tech with Distinction from IIT Bombay.

• Session: Business Mashups: Designing, Distributing and Monetizing Web Applications with WebEx Connect
• Session: Business Mashups: Designing, Distributing and Monetizing Web Applications with WebEx Connect

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